Posted on 06/18/2010 9:11:10 AM PDT by AuntB
El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 6-17-10
The approval of the migratory law in Arizona substantially lowers the opinion that Mexicans have of the United States, its people and its president according to a poll taken on Thursday.
Of the 22 nations surveyed in the poll, public opinion of the United States declined only in Mexico according to the Pew Poll of Global Attitudes. Only 49% of Mexicans expressed a positive view of our neighbor to the North, compared to 57% last year.
The major decline in the general opinion of the United States in Mexico was due, in part, to the bad feelings caused by the Arizona migration law.
The Arizona law requires the police to confirm the immigration status of whomever they suspect is illegally in the country and every criminal illegal immigrant.
The favorable opinion of the United States fell from 69% to 56% in 2009, but there are big differences in the polls before and after Arizona approved the measure on the 23rd of April. In a poll taken between the 14th and 20th of April, 62% of those questioned had a positive view of the United States, compared to 44% of those questioned between the 1st and the 6th of May, according to the study.
Upon being questioned about the administration of the respective Presidents, 54% disapproved of President Barack Obama and some 43% disapproved of President Felipe Calderon while 75% disapproved of Governor Jan Brewer.
Before the approval of the law (SB1070), 47% of Mexicans had confidence in the international leadership of Barack Obama, but now only 36% have that confidence.
In other Latin American countries there is little confidence in Barack Obama. In Argentina there is barely 10% approval because of Iraq and 11% approval because of the situation in Afghanistan. In Brazil 48% disapprove of his (Obama’s) policies in Iraq and 43% disapprove of his policies in Afghanistan.
The United States enjoys the best opinion in other Latin American countries like Brazil (62%), and in Argentina where 42% approve and 42% disapprove of the United States.
Brazil is the country with the most citizens worried about climate change (58%) and is one of the few countries content with its economic situation (62%). The other countries happy with their economy are China (91%), India (57%) and Poland (53%).
The results of this poll were taken telephonically from people in 22 nations of which only Argentina, Brazil and Mexico were Latin American nations. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The Pew Center has taken opinion polls about a variety of issues since 2001 over the entire planet.
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=9961155&IdCat=6087
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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacán) 6-17-10
Federales ambushed in Michoacán
Two henchmen who participated in an ambush of federal policemen in Michoacan have been detained. One man is from Zitacuaro and the other from Lazaro Cardenas, in Eastern Michoacan.
Both men, aged 20 and 22 years are believed to be part of La Familia. The ambush lasted around 20 minutes and up to 35 henchmen participated in the attack. One gunman, known as “El Beto,” died in the confrontation.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 6/15/10
Juarez police quitting in droves
According to official records released yesterday 91 Juarez policemen have quit voluntarily this year. Three others were let go “for loss of trustworthiness.” Just last weekend, at the funeral of one of their fellow workers, some members of the Juarez police expressed their desire to quit for fear of losing their lives in what they themselves called “a lost war” against organized crime.
This year, nineteen Juarez policemen have been assassinated during ambushes by organized crime. Another 46, from other law enforcement agencies, have been murdered in Juarez so far this year; they include 9 federal police, 5 state investigators, two traffic police, a jail guard, 4 CIPOL (intelligence center police,) 2 Public Ministry agents, 2 technical experts, and 2 private security guards.
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Diario Rotativo (Queretaro, Qro.) 6/15/10
Migrants assaulted by federal agents return to their country
As has happened in other occasions earlier this year, Mexican federal police in Chahuites, state of Oaxaca, assaulted some 300 Central American migrants riding a freight train. A priest from a shelter for transients in that area said that, “As in the previous two assaults, the agents acted brutally……..and kicked them while (the victims) were face down on the ground.” After the assault, a group of migrants complained to the National Human Rights Commission with the help of the local Salvadoran Consul. But afterward, federal police agents threatened them with firearms and demanded that they retract the allegations in front of video cameras. Yesterday, a group of Salvadorans decided to leave Mexico voluntarily and return to their country. They were escorted to the border for their safety by Mexican naval personnel and agents from a Chiapas state agency.
http://rotativo.com.mx/migracion/migrantes-asaltados-por-federales-regresan-a-su-pais/33641/html/
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Milenio (Mexico City) 6/15/10
A wave of violence in Mexico
Yesterday (Mon.) violence in Mexico caused the death by homicide of 79 persons. Of that number, 42 took place in three mass killings in the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Michoacan. Mexico’s Ministry of Government “condemned” the cowardly assassination of members of the federal police in Zitacuaro, Michoacan (M3 Report of yesterday.)
http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8784453
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El Siglo de Torreon (Torreon, Coahuila) 6/15/10 – also found in several others
Taxco explodes in more violence
Today in Taxco, state of Guerrero, someone fired from a house at a passing military vehicle. A battle ensued and the result was that 15 people died, all of them civilians in that house. Also found inside were 13 “long barrel” firearms, 5 handguns and a couple of fragmentation grenades. (Seventy-seven human remains were recently found near this same city. See M3 Report of 6/8/10)
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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 6/15/10
Complaint: Mexicans kidnap migrants
An average of 54 migrants, both Mexicans and aliens, are kidnapped in Mexico on a daily basis. This charge was made by two members of the Migration Affairs Commission of Michoacan’s congress; the two intend to issue a call to officials of Mexico’s border states to deal with this problem because in many of the cases there is complicity by the local or state police agencies.
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 6/15/10
What’s happening to us? Op/col. by Carlos Vanedas, titled as shown
We Salvadorans are suffering from such a grave situation that we are reaching desperation. We aren’t able to come out of the terrible economic crisis that hit us recently. Almost 100% of crimes go unpunished, due to a corrupt and deficient system of justice. What country are we going to leave for our children? We are in a situation worse than war. In Congress, our country’s fathers, comfortably in their seats, bust their brains thinking of new laws to help reduce the problem; nevertheless, while these keep ending up in corrupt and inefficient hands, all will go on the same or worse and, to boot, the laws most obeyed are those imposed by criminals. The gangster judges daily decree execution orders as if it were a matter of killing dogs. This situation leaves orphans, widows, families and friends with a wound that is very difficult to heal. Gentlemen murderers, extortionists, gangsters, have pity, an entire society begs you, respect the most precious gift of a human being, which is life.
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Grim statistics from El Salvador
El Salvador’s National Civil Police reported 19 assassinations in the country during this past weekend. The murder tally for the first 13 days of June now stands at 173. And the year’s current total has reached 1,972, an average of 12 daily.
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Is this not the same nation that chanted “Osama” during a soccer match? They can smooch the butt of this All-American mutt.
That’s funny, those headless executions every day in Mexico kind of ruin my image of Mexico. Plus the corruption, socialism, anti-Americanism. That too.
“How come we’re never polled on our view of that sewage dump called Mexico?”
Great question!
Uh oh! In the 1920s we passed a law restricting Japanese immigration. They got really, really MAD at us!
I couldn’t give two sh*ts if we are “liked.” I care if we are feared and respected. We currently are neither.
Yay!!
It's high time we returned the favor.
I don’t give a rat’s a** what Mexico thinks; I care a whole lot about illegal immigration and SB1070. I’m concerned that Mexico cannot control the drug cartels and seems to be aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
BINGO! I’ve always maintained that if you gave Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California back to Mexico, it wouldn’t be long before they started sneaking into Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon. They’d pi** it away like they’ve done their own pi** poor country.
Why are we the only country in the world that continues to be subjected to annual popularity polls?
With all due respect - who friggen cares what Mexico thinks of us!
Good!
A pet peeve....any article starts out with the 'migratory' law of Arizona.....doesn't deserve to be read. The word migratory connotes something natural and long standing. ILLEGAL MEXICANS and SOUTH AMERICANS, in general are not 'migratory'; they are CRIMINAL INVADERS. ARM our troops and give them ROEs that will scare the crap out of these invaders.
Arizona law doesn’t go far enough we need to make their hate for us 100%!
“Why are we the only country in the world that continues to be subjected to annual popularity polls?”
Another good question...I suppose because those in charge care about the votes they get from foreigners. I wish these 3rd worlders were scared to death of us.
They have a right to theirs, we have a right to ours.
Here's to them and us, may we never disagree, but if we do to hell with them here's to us.
Good news!!! The law is working and bringing us more benefits than we could have hoped for. Now we need to get more states to ratify similar legislation and let Mexico know how we feel! That is what matters after all, it is our home they are invading.
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