Thread: Mexico’s Social and Economic Collapse: The War Next Door

Investing for Mexico’s Social and Economic Collapse

Politics / Mexico
Aug 13, 2010 - 08:05 AM

By: Sean_Brodrick

There is a war next door, and our neighbor may be losing. I’m talking about Mexico’s ongoing battle with violent drug gangs. The northern parts of Mexico are becoming lawless, and the drug gangs are taking steps to set themselves up as de facto governments. This could have big implications for Mexico and for its oil production. And Mexico is our number 2 supplier of imported oil.

Does the fallout from Mexico’s collapse extend beyond oil? Heck, yeah! The U.S. share a long and porous border with Mexico, and troubles there are already spilling over here.

Here are some facts about Mexico’s drug gangs that are starting to scare me …

About 28,000 people have been killed since December 2006, when President Calderon declared war against the gangs. A whopping 1,200 people were killed in July — the deadliest month yet. The city of Ciudad Juárez, which borders El Paso, has by far been the most violent area, with more than 4,300 people killed in the past two years. Drug gangs are armed with military-grade weapons smuggled from the U.S., and other weapons come straight from the Mexican army.

So many people were terrified of being assassinated in the last election, political parties had trouble finding candidates to run for office.

Drug gangs are smuggling more drugs into the U.S. now than when the war started. It has become a $39 billion a year business — worth one-fifth of the Mexican government’s annual budget.

The drug gangs are diversifying — moving into immigrant smuggling, extortion, kidnapping, and stealing oil.

Mexican drug cartels operate in more than 2,500 U.S. cities. They are the only ones working in every part of the United States, and have forced out Columbian gangs.

Drug gangs are actually setting up de-facto shadow governments and levying taxes in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Coahuila on the Texas border, as well as President Calderon’s home state of Michoacán.
President Calderon acknowledged the growing strength of the drug gangs at a national security conference. He said: “Their business is no longer just the traffic of drugs. Their business is to dominate everyone else. This criminal behavior has become a defiance to the state, an attempt to replace the stateâ€

I want to know why Obama, the Democrats and more Specifically "RINO's are indireclty supporting the Drug Cartels over Arizona and America

and i want some answers

Excellent but scary article.