Posted on 01/27/2009 10:40:51 AM PST by AuntB
The macabre admission is just the latest indication of the depth of Mexico's drug violence. Some US observers say the cartels now pose a direct threat to the Mexican government's survival, and, by extension, a growing security threat to the US.
The state prosecutors' office said it was looking into more than 450 missing persons' cases from the past eight years.
The Wall Street Journal wrote in an opinion piece that the "body count" in drug-related violence in Mexico so far this year is already 354. It noted that a police commander was recently beheaded in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, an "increasingly popular tactic."
As bad as the violence is, it could get worse, and it is becoming clear that the U.S. faces contagion. In recent months, several important American voices have raised concerns about the risks north of the border.
The paper reported that the US Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, "warned recently that an unstable Mexico 'could represent a homeland security problem of immense proportions to the United States.'"
The newspaper said that the US Joint Forces Command report was only one of several alarms being sounded on the security situation south of the border.
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, the former U.S. drug agency director, said in a separate analysis on Mexico that the government "is not confronting dangerous criminality -- it is fighting for its survival against narco-terrorism" and could lose effective control of large swaths near the U.S. border.
The outgoing CIA director, Michael V. Hayden, listed Mexico with Iran as a possible top challenge for President Obama.
And former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said this month that Mexico could turn into a surprise crisis for the new president by year's end.
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James David Manning warned that with Obama in the presidency we will soon see people trying to cross INTO Mexico from the USA! There will be a huge jam at the Rio Grande with people trying to cross in both directions.
Looks America is no longer a Republic.. but a democracy..
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The worst part is that the majority of the people are dummies who think it is SUPPOSED to be a democracy and that a democracy is the greatest form of government in the world, provided of course that it is a socialist democracy.
Politically, We may be screwed..
Good luck. I would never live there.
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