Editorial in Mexican Newspaper questions Mexican Government policies
Friday, 18 January 2008

Editorial in Mexican Newspaper questions Mexican Government policies regarding the treatment of their citizens and why they are here illegally in the USA

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El Diario de Yucatán (Mérida, Yucatán) 1/17/08

(note: the following is an op/column titled "Our past is on its way back" and sub-titled "Zero tolerance?" by Ana Rosa Aguilar)

The "new strategy" of "zero tolerance" by the government of Mexico is surreal: imagine reclaiming against the gringos for the treatment given to Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

And what about the treatment which the Mexican government gives to its own citizens, which forces them to leave their homeland in search of a better life ? Isn't it better to demand zero tolerance to the corruption, pretense and ineptitude of our government ? Why do Mexicans emigrate to the United States, why do they leave their families, their roots, their home ? Why, in spite of the hardships they go through in the neighboring country, do they believe that their lives will be better than in "their dearest Mexico" ?
In case the Mexican politicians do not know it, those who go in search of the American dream do so because they are fed up with the nightmares of poverty, of pretense in the country of unfulfilled promises. The Mexican government, the jingoist that shouts "Viva Mexico!" while it stabs you in the back, looks for the guilty ones of its own failed policies elsewhere.

The "Special program for the protection to emigrants" seeks to cover the Sun with one finger. That has been the government's tonic for decades: pretense and smoke curtains. Our past is on its way back, because the future never was.

Of course the treatment given to the undocumented immigrants in the United States hurts us, (as does the treatment given in Mexico to Cuban or Central American immigrants) but a government which expels its citizens through its incapacity to offer them a decent living is not really the one best called to demand that others do so. A government which pays itself millionaire salaries and grants itself incredible benefits, while the people earn miserable wages, is not the right one to demand of another the humanitarian treatment which it itself denies.

It's for that reason that the actions they want to undertake in favor of our countrymen who emigrate lack credibility, moral authority and turn out to be ridiculous, pathetic and chauvinistic, to say the least.

To say the least, let it be known that the Mexican government has not made the least effort to prevent that Mexicans emigrate; there is no commitment on this side for the creation of jobs to prevent emigration. On the contrary, it's ever more difficult.

"Zero tolerance" sounds good. Tremble, blondies !, the Mexican government is going to tolerate z-e-r-o. Nothing from no one. It will also do nothing to prevent emigration. That is its commitment. Mistreatment of Mexicans is the exclusive right of the government of "this side" and no one is going to take it away.

How long will the pretense, the farce and the lie go on ? When will they take the finger off the Sun in order to see the light and our national reality, so that they can begin to change it ? We need a government that can work for the good of Mexico; an honest, efficient government that will improve the living conditions of the Mexicans and which will promote employment and education, justice and the rule of Law. One which demonstrates that its interests are those of every Mexican: a just country, of everyone, an orderly and generous homeland we can only perceive in our dreams.

Then and only then will it have credibility and moral authority and we will believe that its actions are not a farce, a smoke curtain, one more lie about which the people are more and more fed up, and no one really seems to care.
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Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 1/17/08

87 of the 113 municipalities and townships in Michoacan lost population due to emigration, according to the state's "Population Council" coordinator, who asserted that there has been no change in this trend in the last six years because Michoacan residents keep leaving in search of better opportunities.
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El Bravo (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) 1/17/08

More than one thousand Mex. army Special Forces personnel arrived in Tamaulipas yesterday to reinforce operations against organized crime in Nuevo Laredo, Rio Bravo, Reynosa and Matamoros.
In the last few days Tamaulipas has become a battlefield between federal forces and "presumed hired killers." The "SSP" (SecretarÃ*a de Seguridad Pública) said that 1,100 federal police and 2,300 military are now in the state of Tamaulipas.
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El Debate (Culiacán, Sinaloa) 1/17/08

1,300 cartridges for AK47 assault rifles and clips for AK47 and .45 weapons were seized during a search of a house at # 3483 Antonio Machado St. in a sub-division of Culiacán named San Diego. Two persons were arrested at the site.
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo León) 1/17/08

1. The Chief of Police of Tulancingo, state of Mexico, was driving through the middle of town last night at about 11 p.m. when a group of between 8 and 10 men in two other vehicles opened fire on him. He was hit "at least" 10 times and died.

2. In Ciudad Alemán, Tamaulipas, a parked Escalade with no license plate was found to have four cal. .223 assault rifles, a 5.7 mm. pistol, two clips for the rifle & one for the pistol, plus handcuffs & camouflage uniforms. And at dawn today, three individuals in a vehicle at upscale Colonia Pedregal, Mexico City, were found with two AK47s, three HE66 (sic) "anti-tank grenade launchers" and 124 rounds of ammunition.

3. Near El Garbanzo, Sinaloa, three fields of marihuana covering more than six hectares were discovered. The weed was incinerated and there were no arrests. And in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, one Marco Antonio Ramirez Robles was driving a stolen car. Found inside the car's engine compartment: an aluminum foil package with 3 kilos 600 grams of heroin. Each kilo brings 4,500,000 pesos in the black market; each kilo also requires ten hectares (1 hectare = 2.47 acres) and 90,000 poppy plants.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 1/17/08

Tijuana law enforcement has changed some operational tactics due to the recent violent events. Police will now patrol in groups of up to five units for self-protection; radio frequency channel usage has been cut to one; there will no longer be district or area police chiefs.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 1/17/08

The Honduran National Penitentiary was searched by police.
Found: - Two AK47 assault rifles
- One UZI machine pistol
- Ten bars of plastic explosive
- Seven bars of "emonol" (note: ?) explosive
- Two 40 mm. fragmentation grenades
- Explosives "for road construction and for blowing up bridges"
- A "great amount" of ammunition and clips for all the weapons
- Four shotguns
Last week, prison officials found a common grave containing the remains of convicts previously reported as missing. The Minister of Security for Honduras said that any corrupt police officers who are discovered in his department will be punished.
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El Diario de Hoy (San Salvador, El Salvador) 1/17/08

Individual monetary remittances to El Salvador by Salvadorans in the United States reached 3 billion 695 million dollars in 2007, a new record. This amount represents 18.1% of El Salvador's GNP and surpassed by 224 million dollars the amount for 2006.
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