Mexico and Anarchy: Headless Bodies in Topless State
Mexican federal forces finally nailed Gonzales, thank God, but it would be hard to conclude from this that the state is gaining control.
The death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez — nicknamed "The Craziest One" — is a major blow to a drug cartel that rose to national prominence four years ago by rolling severed heads into a nightclub and declaring that its mission was to protect Michoacan state from rival gangs and petty criminals.
The news reports are very sketchy, presumably because journalists with a sentimental attachment to their heads know better than to get anywhere near this stuff. But from what I can tell, Michoacan has entered real Heart of Darkness territory. Five federal police officers and an eight-month-old baby were killed in this gunfight, too.
There's now an authentic refugee camp on the South Texas border. Ciudad Juárez is the murder capital of the world:
Last year, over 2,600 hundred people were murdered in Juárez. Since 1993, more than four hundred women and girls have been killed in sex crimes in the city, many of their bodies horribly mutilated, as if a whole platoon of serial killers were on the loose. People have been slaughtered in drug rehabilitation centers and in hospitals. Headless corpses have been hung from bridges and bodies thrown in churches.
I know America has a lot to worry about right now. Add this to the list, if it's not on it already. The portrait of Mexico drawn by US diplomats--now in the public realm thanks to guess-who--is especially ominous.
The world is really quite disturbing these days. I think I'm going to go back to bed. It seemed pretty warm and safe there this morning.
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May '10
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I don't watch the network news broadcasts, or read many of the major daily papers, but it seems to me that this is the News Story That Must Never Speak Its Name. These events are truly horrific, portending doom, and alarm bells should be going off in US newsrooms everywhere, but there is almost no coverage. I think I know why; would anyone like to take a guess?
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There are a number of reasons, I'm sure. But I know exactly why I prefer to cover this story at quite some distance: I don't want to be killed.
Jul '10
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The media's silence on the Mexico crisis -- ideological or craven? Why not both? This morning's question is to compare and contrast it to the . . . how to put it? . . . caution the media adopts on any question concerning Islam or images of Mohammad.
Nov '10
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God forbid we should point out anything unflattering about our quaint, charming Latino neighbor. So political correctness is one reason the story is ignored. Also, if the story were widely and honestly reported, Washington would practically be obliged to send the US military into northern Mexico in order to stabilize the situation. And no one wants to take that step.
The basic problem is, no one, anywhere in the world, wants to deal with a problem in a forceful, forthright manner until it is completely out of hand and then the only rational solution is mass slaughter. If the US Army were sent into Mexico, it would be with orders to summarily execute anyone even remotely suspected of belonging to a drug gang. How else could the thing be handled?
You are absolutely right, Claire. Things are bad. They are very bad. And they are going to get a lot worse. Back to bed you go...
Aug '10
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No need to guess, Claire is exactly right. Any local reporter murdered without the grief of knowing how brutally his wife or daughter was violated, he is the lucky one. If there is a media bias here it is a bias against certain, gruesome death.
Murder City is a sobering read. I have been at it for months and I am only half way through. Shelve this book next to Winnie the Pooh, when you return Pooh will have grown fangs and devoured Christopher Robin.
Bowden writes like Habbakuk prayed, standing on the wall screaming "Violence".
These links won't take you to PJTV or NRO, our team is behind the curve. Take your insight where it can be found. Good interviews of Charles Bowden, author of Murder City, are here, here and here.
Edited on Dec 11, 2010 at 10:53amOct '10
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The emperor has no clothes.
Re: Mexico and Anarchy: Headless Bodies in Topless State
Just one more example of how the leftward media see the events of the world through a domestic political prism. It's always been this way. Bad things happening in Soviet Russia or Cuba? Don't report them -- it'll just help the anti-communists at home. Radical Islam taking hold in Europe? Don't report it -- it'll just help the Bush-war-Islamophobia forces back home. Civil war in Mexico, with lawlessness, mass-killings, and a total breakdown of order? Don't report it -- it'll just help the anti-illegal immigration forces in the US.
Aug '10
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Very true.
The only substantial reporting I could find was Bowden, who is a full on rouge lefty (think mugshot Gary Busey or Nick Nolte) or some Air America guy or wannabee Ira Glass. In other words, folks on the left flank or margin of the MSM, calling [ed: allusion to expletive connoting "untruthfulness" deleted] was on the MSM from the other side.
Editors note: We are so prudish at Ricochet that even the sight of an asterisk makes us recoil. It could, after all, prompt gentle readers to imagine a vulgarity. That would not do.
Edited on Dec 11, 2010 at 11:35amJun '10
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In British Columbia the illicit drug business is estimated to generate between $3 and $7 billion per year--depending on drug price estimates, which puts it ahead of the tourist industry as an economic driver. Our grow-ops now run generators 24/7 and even use waterwheels to beat BC Hydro, which investigates "mysterious" heavy power users. The RCMP (Mounties) fly heat sensing airplanes over certain areas of the Lower Mainland to detect grow-ops. Once a suspected grow-op is detected, hearsay has it that the RCMP then move to hyper-sensitive audio equipment to listen to the chatter in the building before they finally raid the facility. Lest you think this is a rural activity, a townhouse was recently seized, not a mile from where I sit at this moment, after a crystal-Meth effluent trail was followed up the sewer system. Where once there were only a couple of gangs in this area, there are now eight or nine, all involved in the drug trade. The most organized gang is the Hell's Angels, and to some degree we are fortunate in this as they seem to keep a lid on things.
Edited on Dec 11, 2010 at 11:02amJun '10
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Being a seaport Vancouver has a booming import business in drugs also. There is a putative association between the longshoreman's union and the Angels, who are reputed to control the docks. This, however, is difficult to get to the bottom of given the recent enhanced security around the docks, the result of 9/11. The Hell's Angels are, contrary to image, very sophisticated and polished. The membership roster is reputed to include lawyers and police officers, and despite several recent blows to their organization the Angels are still a force across Canada. Other significant gangs are formed along ethnic lines: Sikhs, Vietnamese, and Chinese to name three groups. So far the shootings have consisted of one-offs, the most dramatic and public being a Sikh gang-banger taking a bullet in the head while on a dance floor in a downtown disco. It was a very public hit that no one seems to have witnessed. All the other killings to date have been the usual, a guy found in a car as the rising sun coruscated off the surrounding mountains. Ah! Super Natural British Columbia; come for the weather stay for the drugs.
Nov '10
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Exactly. How can we expect to get amnesty for those honest, hardworking border jumpers when the rubes in flyover country think Mexico is a lawless failed state de facto run by sadistic butchers. We can't let the truth get in the way of our glorious importation of more Democrat voters.
Nov '10
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I've been worried about exactly this development.
As the violence in Mexico continues, it is inevitable that there will be pressure for the US to build some sort of facilities to house the refugees. It is imperative that we don't do this.
Whatever facilities we build to house fleeing Mexicans will fill overnight, and quickly become overcrowded. The more motivated refugees will move on, but they will be replaced by people who aren't so motivated.
The camps that we set up as a temporary humanitarian solution to a crisis will morph into a permanent home for large numbers of people who have no plans for leaving and nowhere else to go. In a very few years, these camps will become an impoverished, sullen, crime-ridden mess.
Any solution will be more and more painful the longer we wait, so nobody will want to fix it. People who try will be called racists. And in 2025, the babies born in these camps will start having babies of their own.
We run a real risk of building our own Gaza Strip on the Texas border.
Nov '10
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Starve the Beast
We run a real risk of building our own Gaza Strip on the Texas border.
That is a recipe for Nightmare, and no mistake.
Dec '10
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Louie Mungaray:
Editors note: We are so prudish at Ricochet that even the sight of an asterisk makes us recoil. It could, after all, prompt gentle readers to imagine a vulgarity. That would not do. · Dec 11 at 10:29am
Edited on Dec 11 at 11:35 am
This would make a conversation regarding a certain Grammy nominated song for Record of the Year require some interesting linguistic gymnastics. Somehow NRO ran a Dennis Prager column about it without folks getting the vapors. Also, the recent remarks of angry Democrat congress critters against their own president would be out of bounds as well.
So with all respect let me say I am all for civility and against gratuitous profanity and will always attempt to stay within bounds, but "the sight of an asterisk" "imagine a vulgarity"? None of us want Ricochet to turn into a Daily Kos or DU cesspool, but context people, context.
Wowser! Do we have children spending $3.47/month of their allowance to hang around here?
Dec '10
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P.S.
Didn't I just this morning laugh myself silly through a thread containing numerous jokes, japes and puns referencing "hos"?
Jumpin' Jehosaphat! I probably imagined a vulgarity or two.
Re: Mexico and Anarchy: Headless Bodies in Topless State
Yes, well, we're working this out as we go along, but if you check the CoC, you'll see that the use of asterisks to mark profanities is ausgeschlossen. Slippery slope and all, let the asterisks in and next thing you know the place will sound like the Nixon White House. I'm okay with that policy. I figure in this world, we can't be vigilant enough. I'm open to the argument that we should have cracked down on "hos," but given the legitimate economic discussion involved, it seemed to me it could go either way.
Dec '10
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Point taken, Claire. It wasn't so much the asterisks as the "imagine a vulgarity" that sounded a bit Victorian. You gotta admit, the "ho" thing was funny. I think for the most part most of us can differentiate between adult wordplay and working blue. I've only been lurking around here for a few weeks and it seems a pretty sober crowd in the main.
(Note the irony of the funeral director urging folks to lighten up.)
Aug '10
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(Helpless laughter.)
Aug '10
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Unlike Roman Moronie, I accept the decision of the distinguished members of the panel.
Mine was an allision with, rather than an allusion to, an expletive. I am guilty as charged.
Edited on Dec 11, 2010 at 11:52pmRe: Mexico and Anarchy: Headless Bodies in Topless State
Funeral Guy: Point taken, Claire. It wasn't so much the asterisks as the "imagine a vulgarity" that sounded a bit Victorian. You gotta admit, the "ho" thing was funny. I think for the most part most of us can differentiate between adult wordplay and working blue. I've only been lurking around here for a few weeks and it seems a pretty sober crowd in the main.
(Note the irony of the funeral director urging folks to lighten up.) · Dec 11 at 10:42pm
A bit Victorian? We are entirely Victorian. We are proud to be prim.