Posted on 11/29/2008 11:35:21 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Nearly 300 people have been killed since late-September – many mutilated, tortured and beheaded in gruesome terror tactics copied from Iraq's brutal conflict.
In the past week alone, there has been an attack in a nightclub popular with students that left five young people dead or dying; a hit squad stormed a private hospital and killed a patient who was being treated for gunshot wounds; and armed men opened fire on a car parked outside a popular US-owned discount warehouse, killing a woman and seriously injuring a man.
Mexico's drug war death tally of more than 4,000 this year – 685 in Tijuana – makes it one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and the extreme violence has intensified since the federal government launched a crackdown against the cartels.
On streets in the centre of Tijuana, where throngs of American visitors once stocked up on cheap goods and prescription drugs by day and revelled in the brash nightlife after dark, stores and bars now stand empty.
"Help the Mexican economy. Visit my shop!" pleaded one souvenir store manager last week as an armoured vehicle carrying heavily-armed troops trundled past him, down Avenida Revolucion.
But there were no shoppers for the T-shirts and spirit shot glasses bearing the legend, "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor" – Tijuana's unofficial slogan for the young Americans who used to pour over the border to evade America's 21-year drinking age.
Nearby is the Caesar's restaurant where in 1924 an Italian immigrant, Caesar Cardini, devised a tangy dressing to accompany leftovers of lettuce and bread crusts and thereby invented the eponymous salad. But waiters stood around forlornly in the absence of customers.
After incidents like the Banana Loca killings, that is hardly surprising. Investigators suspect that the hitmen who calmly marched into the
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You find this baffling? Where is the equivalence? Terror against white foreigners as opposed to drug cartel maintenance operations? No comparison.
I didn’t say I was baffled. I’m furious. If the guy in the White House and the guy who’ll be taking over from him weren’t intent on the country following policies which will end up fundamentally and inextricably linking the U.S. and Mexican populations, I wouldn’t be. How many Americans died in Mumbai? I’d bet many more have been killed by Mexican citizens, on American soil, in every one of the past 40 quarters.
Pikers! Those murderers in NO are a bunch of pansies compared to TJ!
Seriously though... 300 murders in just over 2 months? 4000 murders so far this year? And this is on our southern border. Time to shut that border down... About 5 or 6 years ago, that is!
Mark
Time to shut that border down/no word from congress.
Ditto.
Just be thankfull they didn't have night-court.
I used to spend time there as well, but you’re right...... that was then, this is now.
everyone has to go through a metal detector to get into the courthouse.
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It won’t be long before one has to go through metal detectors at malls, churches, schools and gated communities at the rate we’re going.
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