Holiday Reading: My Five Favorite MEXICO Stories of 2012 – Forbes
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Mexico: the ‘unwinnable’ war | beyondbrics
While foreign governments cheered loudly in favour of Felipe Calderón’s war against Mexico’s drug gangs, Jorge Castañeda always maintained it was unwinnable, a “bloody, reckless adventure”.Castañeda, a former foreign minister, supported Calderón’s successful presidential campaign in 2006, but was first taken aback, then aghast as, almost without warning, the new president immediately donned military garb to confront Mexico’s powerful drug gangs.via Mexico: the ‘unwinnable’ war |...
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Drugwar Dilemma: Fighting to Improve Security AND Boost Tourism in Acapulco, Mexico – Forbes
On Christmas day in Acapulco, thousands of vacationing Mexican families gathered under umbrellas on the shore of the cove, a picturesque pocket on the Pacific that has in recent years emerged as one of the friction points in Mexico’s ongoing drug war. As the sun rose over the bay, women carrying trays lined with hot-sauce covered Styrofoam plates of ceviche and seafood walked by. “Mariscos, camarones,” they called out. Navy officers in white uniforms strolled along the sidewalk next to the beach, machine-gun carrying Federal Police officers peered down from the back of pick-up trucks, and municipal police patrol...
Read MoreJohn M. Ackerman: The Newtown-Mexico Connection
It is shocking how the debate over gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacre has avoided mentioning gun violence south of the border. The 20 children gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School can now be added to the excruciating list of at least 1,200 North American children who have been violently killed since the beginning of the U.S.-backed militarized “drug war” in 2006. Some estimates even put the number at over 4,000, along with over 3,700 orphans.The grief of the families of Fairfield Country unites them with the bitter pain felt by the tens of thousands of family members of those who have died in Mexico. The overarching objective of the policy debate should not be only to avoid occasional disasters in high income US suburbs like Newtown, but to bring peace to North America.via John M. Ackerman: The Newtown-Mexico...
Read MoreAs Mexico claws toward prosperity, some in middle class slide back – The Washington Post
In CHALCO, Mexico — Thirty years ago, Lourdes Huesca and her husband moved to a tiny patch of land in the muddy bean fields at the edge of Mexico City. The young couple lived in a shack, with no water or electricity, in the poor, rural, old Mexico.Huesca, who never learned to read but could add numbers in her head, marched her sons to the schoolhouse every day. The family struggled, sacrificed, saved. A generation later, the family owns a shoe stall in the market and a nice cement-block home with three bedrooms, landscape oil paintings on the wall, and a new flat-screen TV, a gift from the eldest son, an environmental systems engineer.“Mexico has given me so much,” Huesca said.via As Mexico claws toward prosperity, some in middle class slide back – The Washington...
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