just got posted on msnbc. Pirates shoot U.S. man in Mexican waters - World news - Americas - msnbc.com
Fascinating. Your assertions are diametrically opposed to what I've been hearing, and thoroughly at odds with the U.S. State Department's Mexico: Country Specific Information.In Mexico, as in the US, what gets reported in the news is the violence. In Mexico right now that is almost entirely directed at druggies, by druggies, in drug smuggling areas. How do they know I am a tourist? Because I am at the beach and am obviously a relatively rich (compared to the average Mexican) foreigner. But the rest of the country is pretty peaceful compared to almost anywhere else.
No matter: As a result of efforts on the part of our (the U.S.) government: They're getting it back .As for the Mexican government being "nice" to us as one poster worries about above, it is useful to remember that we took half their country from them back in the day.
Thanks for putting my mind at ease. Perhaps I should stop viewing this thread until I return from México.Car bomb with a man murdered to look like he needed help which killed a doctor and others who tried to help.
The armed gunmen dressed in military uniforms who, in broad daylight, pulled up to the mayors office, put two men outside to watch, marched up to his office and assasinated him and anyone who got in the way. They then just left.
The grenade attacks a few weeks ago (think there were more last week).
THe multitude of mayors and officials that have been kidnapped, along with their families, and tortured then beheaded.
The vast number (thousands) of tortured and murdered men and women (yes, many of which were in the drug business, but still murdered).
And as Smack put, the migrant workers who were caught and assasinated.
Should we even discuss the massive human trafficking of people that are not killed... or the massive murders that will never even be known? And rememebr teh police chief that promised to wipe out corruption and was assasinated an hour or two after elected? And wasn't the next cheif behind him assasinated too? Didn't the drug gangs post a sign on teh wall warning them with any more interfence? Kinda makes you wonder who is really running the country?
The drug gang-to-drug gang murders are only the tip of teh iceberg. As Hillary Clinton said a few or two ago to teh Mexican President on National Television, "You run the risk of becoming COlombia." (paraphrased).
Not strictly true:The entire states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Colorado, most of Arizona and almost all of New Mexico were taken from the Mexicans in the war that started in 1845. Texas we got by annexing it 10 years after Anglo settlers declared independence from Mexico in 1835. We didnt pay them for any of this.
(ref: Mexican-American War (Wikipedia). We may have given Mexico little choice in the matter, but she was paid for that land.The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, by American diplomat Nicholas Trist and Mexican plenipotentiary representatives Luis G. Cuevas, Bernardo Couto, and Miguel Atristain, ended the war and gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, established the U.S.-Mexican border of the Rio Grande River, and ceded to the United States the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming. In return Mexico received US $18,250,000[45] ($457,373,077 today)-less than half the amount the U.S. had attempted to offer Mexico for the land before the opening of hostilities[46]-and the U.S. agreed to assume $3.25-million ($81,450,000 today) in debts that the Mexican government owed to U.S. citizens
The part you're leaving out is that, likely as a result of the Mexican government's inability to control her own territory: The violence and kidnapping are spreading to other areas of the country (not-to-mention southern areas of the U.S.)."Over 5,000 people have been killed in Mexico since last year,"
Yes, and most of them druggies and almost all of them in the Northern border area.