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The written part says we want justice, and the other one, why you slaughter us.
 
I have wondered about it too and been following the news on facebook.

Mexico has gone through a lot when you think about it, the Zapatistas and the whole indigenous uprising has disappeared from the media and popular consciousness now, the wars between the state forces, narco-terrorists, people traffickers and vigilantes have replaced it and the general sort of chaotic as all hell perception which I dont think is too bad a reflection of those developments.

I think of that movie City Of God when I think of latin America pretty much, terrible poverty and terrible crime.
 
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I have wondered about it too and been following the news on facebook.

Mexico has gone through a lot when you think about it, the Zapatistas and the whole indigenous uprising has disappeared from the media and popular consciousness now, the wars between the state forces, narco-terrorists, people traffickers and vigilantes have replaced it and the general sort of chaotic as all hell perception which I dont think is too bad a reflection of those developments.

Yeah, Mexico haves a really unstable past, and present. Corruption runs rampant in the government, and the president is said to be a joke, among other things.

I think of that movie City Of God when I think of latin America pretty much, terrible poverty and terrible crime.

I saw that movie, with the whole favelas thing, it was terrible, but yeah, a reality there. Nonetheless, since i live in latin america, i wouldn't say it's poor at all, and it haves nothing to do with the City Of God... not where i live at least (i come from an upper middle class background though), but there's a lot of contrast through social classes, so much that it's ridiculous. Also huge resentment.
Mexico is a good example of it, in proportions, the rich ones are 10 times less than usual, and get 10 times more. This are not really official calculations, nor anything, but to give an example of how extreme it is. Needless to mention the amount of foreign corporations who get their slice too. This whole thing about corruption has been going for ages, i know it and i don't even keep a keen track on politics. I genuinely hope there's a change for the better there, but i don't know. Mexico haves a really long and blood stained history behind, maybe today with the whole internet thing...
 
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Hollywood is releasing a film at the moment called 'kill the messenger' about a US american journalistcalled Gary Webb who exposed the role the CIA play in the drug running and arms dealing going between mexico, the US and other central and south american states (see also the fast and furious gun running scandal)

He lost his job due to his story and he never managed to find any work as a journalist again; eventually he is said to have killed himself

An LA cop Mike Ruppert also blew the lid on the role of the CIA in drug running as shown in th clip below; he too is said to have killed himself recently

[video=youtube;UT5MY3C86bk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5MY3C86bk[/video]

The shadow government in the US has played an ongoing role in destabiliing that region through drugs and violence

US TV programme about the shadow governments activities which they called 'the enterprise'

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Hollywood is releasing a film at the moment called 'kill the messenger' about a US american journalistcalled Gary Webb who exposed the role the CIA play in the drug running and arms dealing going between mexico, the US and other central and south american states (see also the fast and furious gun running scandal)

He lost his job due to his story and he never managed to find any work as a journalist again; eventually he is said to have killed himself

An LA cop Mike Ruppert also blew the lid on the role of the CIA in drug running as shown in th clip below; he too is said to have killed himself recently

[video=youtube;UT5MY3C86bk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5MY3C86bk[/video]

The shadow government in the US has played an ongoing role in destabiliing that region through drugs and violence

US TV programme about the shadow governments activities which they called 'the enterprise'

[video=youtube;28K2CO-khdY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28K2CO-khdY[/video]


The USA government unfortunetly screwed over them countless times, don't really know the amount of involvement on this case, but it's all about interests and endless webs of corruption so it's possible...
 
The USA government unfortunetly screwed over them countless times, don't really know the amount of involvement on this case, but it's all about interests and endless webs of corruption so it's possible...

The CIA have a hand in most things like that
 
http://socialistworker.co.uk/art/39390/Missing+in+Mexico

[h=1]Missing in Mexico[/h] The kidnap of 43 students in Mexico exposes links between politicians, drugs and imperialism, writes Dave Sewell





A protester holds the photo of one of the missing students. Her placard reads "They were taken alive, we want them back alive" (Pic: Realidad Expuesta on Flickr)


Furious protesters in Mexico City set fire to the presidential palace and chanted, “They must all go” last week.
Tens of thousands have joined protests demanding justice for 43 abducted students, creating an unprecedented challenge to the corrupt network that dominates the country.
Three gangsters have now said they killed the students. But the charred remains could take months to identify.
A combination of neoliberal politicians, crooked cops and violent drug lords have made Mexico one of the most dangerous places on earth.
Contrary to racist caricatures, there is nothing inherently Mexican about this—it is a product of capitalism and imperialism.
Much of the violence can be traced back to US policies and the so-called “war on drugs”.
The students were taken away by police after a protest in the city of Iguala. The officers are believed to have handed them over to a drug cartel.
Almost immediately afterwards the local police chief, the mayor and his wife—who was also his chosen successor—went on the run.
They have known links to drug cartels, and are believed to have had the students targeted.
They belong to the opposition party PRD. But the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that has ruled Mexico for 73 of the last 85 years and the right wing PAN are equally compromised.
Former president Felipe Calderon was named in one drug baron’s confession, and mountains of evidence have amassed against top cops and ministers.
This protest float calls for president Enrique Peña Nieto to resign (Pic: David Monroy on Flickr)


In 2006 Calderon started a “War on Drugs” that was really a war between drug lords.
By 2010 there had been 53,000 arrests. But only 1,000 of those involved the gang closest to the government, the Sinaloa cartel. With its rivals taken care of, Sinaloa boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman became Mexico’s tenth richest man.
Up to 80,000 people were killed or disappeared during Calderon’s time in office.
Investigative journalist Anabel Hernandez calls Calderon “the president of death”, arguing the death rate is worse than in Chile under the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Little has changed since Enrique Peña Nieto took over in 2012.
Both presidents took office amid mass protests against electoral fraud. Peña Nieto faced widespread accusations of voters being bribed or harassed by thugs and gangsters.
Mexico’s development has always been distorted by being in the “backyard” of the US, its imperialist neighbour.
Today the border is militarised to keep poor Mexicans from migrating to the US. Yet the 1994 Nafta free trade agreement means they have no protection from US capital.
Its privatisation and cuts to services and subsidies had a devastating effect on peasant farmers. In 2007 tens of thousands of poor Mexicans protested because a surge in prices meant they couldn’t even afford their staple diet of tortillas.
For many poor families growing marijuana is the only way to survive. And trying to get ahead in the cartels can seem like the only shot at a better life.
But the reality of working with the cartels is horrific.
The border city of Juarez saw its murder rate go up 300 percent for males and 600 percent for females from 1994 to 2001.
Hundreds of women workers at the new “maquiladora” factories—where US firms were outsourcing their lowest paid work—were murdered.
The gap between rich and poor in Mexico is the second highest of the 34 OECD countries. It is home to the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim, alongside a 78 million-strong workforce with the longest average hours in the world.
It has vast oil and gas reserves, currently being privatised, and is regularly singled out as one of the best emerging markets to invest in.
The hated cartels are part and parcel of this capitalist success story. The Sinaloa cartel is estimated to have links to more than 3,000 legal businesses.
These links offer the cartels vital channels for laundering money, and allies to lobby against measures that would target them.
As Mexican law expert Edgardo Bruscaglia puts it, “The hand of the hitman is also that of the above-board businessman”.
The US creates the demand for trafficking through the repressive drug laws. Pressure from below is finally pushing some states to relax them.
Without prohibition, neither cannabis nor cocaine would sell for much more than other processed crops.
Tens of thousands have protested across Mexico (Pic: Realidad Expuesta on Flickr)


This trafficking inevitably passes through the US-Mexican border.
But the Mexican gangs used to be junior partners of the narco-paramilitaries that grew out of a terrible counter-insurgency against the peasantry in Colombia.
That is until the “Iran-Contra” affair three decades ago.
The US has always sought to dominate Latin America militarily as well as economically.
Sometimes this involves its own troops, but more often proxies.
And some of the proxies are too repulsive even for US politicians to be seen backing openly.
So they need more covert ways of raising money—and there are few better than flogging drugs. It’s a tried and trusted technique that has also funded wars in Cambodia and Afghanistan.
By the 1980s the US was terrified that the left wing Sandinista movement in Nicaragua could bring
revolutionary upheaval to Central America. The CIA had to arm the brutal counter-revolutionary Contras despite a ban from Congress.
Mexican drug cartels were the ideal partners to get cash, guns and training venues for the Contras. The collaboration won them prestige, power and access to the US market that eclipsed their Colombian partners.
As the truth about “Iran-Contra” came out, calls for military repression of drug trafficking gained support.
This brought new levels of violence as the US paid its allies to kill the traffickers it previously backed.
The gangs, whose dealings with the state previously amounted to effectively paying a tax, now did everything to divert its repression onto their rivals rather than themselves.
Bribes big enough to make a politician’s career were no longer too much to ask. Neither were political assassinations. The cartels recruited armies of agents inside the police and government.
These different pillars of Mexico’s establishment are united by fear as much as profit.
Politicians repeatedly repress those who stand up to the cartels—from protesters to self-defence squads. And the cartels help the politicians stay in power.
They know that anger is simmering that could one day overthrow them both.

[h=2]‘All the politicians are in it for money’[/h] Mario Villasante


Mario Villasante, a student in Mexico City, spoke to Socialist Worker
Everyone knows about the close relation between the government and “narco-politics”.
When I heard about the disappearances, it was automatic—I thought this is because of the personal interests at the top of the government.
The party that started this, the PRI, is now back in office.
Even when I was a child the talk was of how they knew where the narcos lived, but instead of going after them they gave them protection.
The same party massacred student protesters in 1968.
That’s how they rule, especially outside the capital. People who disagree with them get beaten up or disappear.
But when we had another party in power, the PAN, they just passed conservative policies that escalated the violence.
Most protesters don’t believe in any of the parties. If there was ever any difference between what they stood for, now it’s completely forgotten. Politicians keep switching from one party to another.
They are in politics to make money, not to make Mexico a better place. Everyone knows you are never going to change this situation through politics.
These protests can be a turning point. A lot of people are angry.
But 120,000 protesters are not enough in a country of 120 million—especially when almost all of us are students.
I come from Oaxaca, where more than half the population joined protests against the state governor in 2006. But they fell away after the police were violent.
There are many stories like this, so I am not optimistic.
In the meetings I say we must reach out to other parts of society—especially workers, who have economic power in their hands.
That won’t be easy, and most activists don’t see it as the priority. But we can’t win until it happens.
 
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[MENTION=1871]muir[/MENTION]: That's why there's a famous quote that says: Poor Mexico, so far from god and so close to the United States
 
@muir : That's why there's a famous quote that says: Poor Mexico, so far from god and so close to the United States

I remember hearing a comment made by the writer of the US Tv show 'the wire' where he was basically saying that there is a process in the US of containment whereby the establishment doesn't care if poor people poison themselves with crack cocaine and crystal meth as long as it is contained within the ghettos

But it goes further than that as the videos posted earlier in the thread show with the CIA playing an active role in bringing harmful drugs into the US which then poison the poor

This has a corrosive effect on the poorest neghbourhoods in the US which then become a drugs quagmire

The US establishment is also keeping people down in central and south america through arming and funding death squads and by supporting right wing dictators and in tryign to foment trouble in countries that have left wing leaders who are trying to help their people; chavez for example was imo poisoned by the US

The establishment of international bankers who run the US are using destabilisation around the world as a way of keeping everyone else weak and divided; this is the behaviour of insecure people with a guilty conscience

Here's an article looking at the CFR connection to the mexican conflict

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/the-council-on-foreign-relations/
[h=1]The Council On Foreign Relations[/h] Posted on 11/11/2014 | 9 Comments
Two nights ago NBC Nightly News reported the massacre of 43 college students Tlatelolco in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Though the students had been protesting austerity measures, and while Guerrero has long been a hotbed of leftist Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) rebel activity, the report depicted the slaughter as some random act of violence carried out by Mexican drug cartels.
The reality is that the massacre was carried out by right-wing paramilitaries in cahoots with the corrupt local mayor and police. The analyst for the report who ensured the whitewash was a member of the infamous Council on Foreign Relations, which often serves as chief obfuscator at critical moments in history.
(Excerpted from Chapter 3: The House of Saud & JP Morgan: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
In 1919 Rothschild’s Business Roundtable launched the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London. The RIIA soon spawned sister organizations around the globe, including the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Asian Institute of Pacific Relations, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the Brussels-based Institute des Relations Internationales, the Danish Foreign Policy Society, the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Australian Institute of International Affairs. [1] Other affiliates popped up in France, Turkey, Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece.
The RIIA is a registered charity of the Queen and, according to its annual reports, is funded largely by the oil oligopoly which I have dubbed the Four Horsemen – Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco Phillips, BP Amoco ARCO and Royal Dutch/Shell Pennzoil.
Former British Foreign Secretary and Kissinger Associates co-founder Lord Carrington is President of both the RIIA and the Bilderbergers. [2]
The inner circle at RIIA is dominated by Knights of St. John Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar and 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemasons.
The Knights of St. John were founded in 1070 and answer directly to the British House of Windsor. The Catholic Knights of Malta, who answer to the Vatican, retreated to Malta after their bruising Crusades defeat and turned that Mediterranean island into a nexus for drugs/guns/oil smuggling.
The Knights Templar invented insurance, the bond market and the concept of credit cards as they shuttled pilgrims to and fro’ the Middle East during the Crusades. They founded Temple Bar in the center of the City of London, which serves as global administer of British Maritime Law – very quietly the law of the land in many nations, including the US, where if you take an oath in a courtroom adorned with gold fringed American flag, you are bound not by the US Constitution, but by British Maritime Law.
Freemasons are largely unaware underling agents of the British Empire, who sponsor children’s hospitals, put on circuses and appear in all parades. They serve as a ruse for the City of London’s global domination of the “colonies”.
On this side of the pond, the City’s domination over US foreign policy and the State Department is exerted via the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bechtel/Chevron board member and former Reagan Defense Secretary George Pratt Schultz was a long-time current director at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
The CFR was created in 1922 and is headquartered in Harold Pratt House in New York City. The building was donated by Pratt’s widow, whose husband made his fortune as a partner in John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company.
Schulz is a relative of Mrs. Harold Pratt and replaced CFR member Alexander Haig to become Reagan’s Secretary of State. The CFR is the US affiliate of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) in London. Both foreign policy think tanks are loaded with powerful leaders of industry, academia and government.
They hold an enormous amount of sway over US and British foreign policies, providing the glue for the so-called “special relationship” between the US and Britain, whereby the Hessianized US mercenary colony pays for and fights the wars which the City of London both desires and profits from.
CFR publishes Foreign Affairs, a bi-monthly journal on the global political landscape, which is considered by many in the State Department as a kind of “how-to” guide for conducting foreign policy.
Founding members of CFR included brothers John Foster and Allen Dulles, columnist Walter Lippman, former Secretary of State Elihu Root and Colonel Edward Mandell House, who as adviser to President Woodrow Wilson pushed through the Federal Reserve Act, creating a private US central bank owned by a few wealthy banking families.
In 1912, one year before the Federal Reserve was created, House wrote Philip Dru: Administrator. The book describes a conspiracy within the United States bent on establishing a central bank, a graduated income tax and control of both political parties.
Past funding for CFR has come from international financiers David Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Bernard Baruch, Jacob Schiff, Otto Kahn and Paul Warburg. International banks Kuhn Loeb, Lazard Freres, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs – whose directorates interlock and whose families have interbred – heavily influence CFR proceedings. [3]
CFR members are sworn to secrecy regarding goals and operations. But Admiral Chester Ward, a longtime CFR member, let slip that the goal of the group is, “to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States…Primarily, they want a world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government.”
CFR members have dominated every Administration since FDR and most Presidential candidates come from its ranks. Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr. and Al Gore are all CFR alumni.
David Rockefeller served as CFR Chairman for some time, giving way to fellow Chase Manhattan chairman/ARAMCO attorney John McCloy.
Nearly every CIA Director since Allen Dulles has been a CFR member. These include Richard Helms, William Colby, George Bush Sr., Bill Casey, William Webster, James Woolsey, John Deutsch and Robert Gates. Interestingly, current Obama Administration CIA Director Leon Panetta is not a CFR member.
CFR’s Foreign Affairs consistently advocates US military intervention and is the most widely read periodical at the US State Department. According to both former Deputy Director of the CIA Victor Marchetti and former State Department analyst John Marks, the CFR is the principal constituency of the CIA, since the elite who run the CFR are the ones who own the overseas assets which the CIA and the US military work to guard. [4]
It is through the CFR that the international bankers and the global intelligence community mingle. The bankers and the spooks share a common goal of keeping the world safe for global monopoly capitalism and often intelligence operatives are recruited from the banking houses where their loyalties to the banking elite have been thoroughly tested. OSS founding father William “Wild Bill” Donovan had been an agent for JP Morgan.
The revolving door between banking and intelligence swings the other way as well. The very best CIA, Mossad and MI6 agents are recruited to become better paid private spooks for multinational corporate and banking empires as documented in Jim Hougan’s Spooks: The Haunting of America – Private Use of Secret Agents. As author Donald Gibson wrote, “By the early 1960’s the CFR, Morgan and Rockefeller interests, and the intelligence community were so extensively inbred as to be virtually one entity.”[5]
The CFR is also the primary incubator for Presidential cabinet positions. The Nixon Administration had 115 CFR members, while the Clinton Administration included over 100 CFR alumni. They included CFR President Peter Tarnoff, National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, Vice-President Al Gore, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and his successor William Cohen, Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen, CIA Director James Woolsey, Colin Powell, Tim Wirth, Winston Lord, Laura Tyson, George Stephenopoulos and Samuel Lewis.
In the fall of 1998 as impeachment loomed over Clinton, the President rushed to New York to try and muster support from his CFR “handlers”. As publisher John F. McManus stated, “Bill Clinton knows well that he serves as President because the members of the ‘secret society’ to which he belongs chose him and expect him to carry out its plans.”
Current co-chairs at CFR are Carla Hills – Bush Sr. trade representative who was the chief negotiator of NATFA and other key WTO machinations – and Robert Rubin – former Clinton Treasury Secretary and Citigroup chairman.
Other current board members include Madeline Albright, Tom Brokaw, General John Abizaid, Fareed Zakaria, Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker, Blackstone Group insider J. Tomlinson Hill, Caterpillar chair James W. Owens and Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein. [6]
[1] Fourth Reich of the Rich. Des Griffin. Emissary Publications. Pasadena, CA. 1978. p.77
[2] The Robot’s Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance. David Icke. Gateway Books. Bath, UK. 1994. p.195
[3] The Rockefeller File. Gary Allen. ’76 Press. Seal Beach, CA. 1977. p.75
[4] Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. Jim Marrs. Harper-Collins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.36
[5] Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency. Donald Gibson. Sheridan Square Press. New York. 1994. p.133
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_Council_on_Foreign_Relations#Board_of_directors
Dean Henderson is the author of five books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries,Das Kartell der Federal Reserve, Stickin’ it to the Matrix & The Federal Reserve Cartel. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column @www.hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com