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In Mexico's Drug War, Bad Cops Are a Mounting Problem
Time ^ | 11/22/08 | Tim Padgett with Dolly Mascarenas

Posted on 11/22/2008 9:36:04 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: B4Ranch

And they’ve been killing a lot of officials too, so he may very well have had the choice to take the money and help them or die. It would be even harder to pass up $450,000 a month under those circumstances.


21 posted on 11/24/2008 7:57:18 AM PST by SmallGovRepub
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From another article:

“PRD Deputy and Federal District Legislative Assembly President Víctor Hugo Círigo said organized crime is making $13 billion a year off the drug trade. More than half of that — $8 billion — is derived from the marijuana business, he said.”

Other estimates put the number at over 14 billion a year. That's an incredible amount of money these guys are making. How can we stop something so profitable?

22 posted on 11/24/2008 8:06:03 AM PST by SmallGovRepub
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Unless you legalize pot, you won’t be able to stop something that profitable. Or at least more than half the profits according to that article.

I don’t see these guys smuggling tobacco into the states.


23 posted on 11/24/2008 11:04:12 PM PST by Nate505
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I imagine it would be a pretty serious blow to Mexican organized crime to lose more than 60% of their income and the established distribution channels for marijuana that they run most of their other drugs through. I don’t see us legalizing marijuana anytime soon though. It will probably happen eventually and as the years go on after it is legalized we’ll end up kicking ourselves for not having done it a lot sooner.


24 posted on 11/25/2008 10:13:23 AM PST by SmallGovRepub
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