Monday, June 6, 2011

NO ......... IT AINT ZORRO !

It seems that Mexico’s historical pattern is to have a war every one hundred years: first, the Independence struggle (1807-1821); then, the Mexican Revolution (1910-1929); and now the War on Drugs (2006-present). It is estimated that over 30,000 people have been murdered in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on the drug cartels in 2006. Just to put things into perspective, the number of casualties in Mexico in 2010 alone were twice as many as the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in the 2003-2010 period.

This Z scratched into a hill alongside the highway to the Mexican city of Monterrey stakes out
territory of Zetas drug cartel.
Mexicans are not the only victims of this war. Central and South American undocumented migrants who are traveling through Mexico in route to the United States are easy targets for the drug cartels. The Human Rights Commission of Mexico stated 20,000 migrants are kidnapped each year while trying to cross the Mexico-US border. Last year, there was a massacre of 72 migrants near Matamoros by Los Zetas Drug Cartel.

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