The Civil War Next Door

There is a Civil War brewing right next door on our southern border and neither party of our callous government seems to care at all. Sooner or later this thing will explode. America is already stuck in the middle, and the only real question is, how badly will we get involved. We have been screaming at our do-nothing politicians (both parties) for years now and still, NOTHING GETS DONE! Here is a preview of the Jan. 18th article by Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter, for the American Chronicle.

A full scale civil war is underway in Mexico. The Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the powerful drug cartels that operate unmolested throughout Mexico are locked in a battle over control of the country. With tens of thousands of the Mexican army fully deployed and often fighting Zetas´ (ex-Mexican army Special Forces trained in the U.S.) who is now working for the cartels. The Mexican government has not been able to curtail the on going gruesome and erupting new violence and confrontations between the two warring parties throughout Mexico. This relentless fighting with casualties on both sides is in truth and scope a civil war. Mexico try´s to hide that fact and the United States is apparently in total denial....

In 2008, more people lost their lives in Mexico do to violence then were lost in the war torn countries of Iraq and Afghanistan combined....

Execution-style murders, beheadings, dismemberings and kidnappings are common now in every state in Mexico on a daily basis. Gun battles are frequent events in Mexico City and in Mexican towns all along the border.... Mexican border town officials have crossed into the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing for their lives....

A group calling itself the Juárez Citizens Command is threatening to strike back against lawlessness that has gripped the city for a long time they say that they are striking back by killing one criminal a day until order and piece is restored. A potential rise in vigilante justice in Juárez is expected by some experts to spread throughout Mexico and would raise the steaks and escalate an already dangerous and bloody civil war....

Mexican civil war is also spilling over into the U.S. Reports of incursions into the U.S. by heavily armed men in Mexican army uniforms (and often driving U.S.-made Humvees) now occurs on a regular basis. Sometimes the "soldiers" are cartel men, probably ex-Mexican army; sometimes they are real Mexican army. In many cases, their purpose is to escort and protect a drug run into the U.S. and back off any lightly armed local sheriff or Border Patrol agent in the way....

The evidence is clear Mexico is in a civil war and this civil war is happening in America´s back yard in a neighboring country of a population of well over 100 million people. A 2000 mile open border and with corrupt officials operating on both sides of the Rio Grande River. There are estimates that the Mexican cartels produce, smuggle and sell some $300 billion worth of drugs into the U.S. annually. These drugs are poisoning our children and violently killing citizens on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border.

The picture above this post, AP photo by Gregory Bull, is of men arrested by Mexican federal police in Mexico City on Jan. 22, 2008. They are allegedly members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Quite an assortment of weapons I'd say. What looks like clothing is body armor. I urge you to read this entire article by visiting this link, and then follow this link for another eye-opening, and gory piece I know you will like. A rather interesting way to dispose of the bodies.