Thread: Mexico condemns US 'corruption'

Mexico condemns US 'corruption'

The Mexican president has blamed US "corruption" for hampering his nation's efforts to combat violent drug cartels.

Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of Mexico's drug gang problems was "having the world's biggest consumer [of drugs] next to us".

"Drug trafficking in the United States is fuelled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said on Wednesday.

The Mexican president launched a massive assault on drug cartels after entering office in late 2006 but the cartels have responded with campaigns of violence and intimidation that left 6,000 dead in 2008 alone and around 1,000 in 2009 so far.

Calderon acknowledged some Mexican officials had helped the cartels but said the US should ask itself how many of its own officials were implicated.

"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between Mexico and the United States," he said.

"I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this [corruption]."

Border concerns


Mexico has deployed thousands of troops in
a bid to quell drugs violence [Reuters]

Calderon, who has deployed more than 36,000 troops to the troubled Mexico-US border regions to crack down on violence, also said that the US must halt the flow of weapons into Mexico, where the police and security services are often outgunned.

But he said recent talks with Barack Obama, the US president, had provided "a clearer, more decisive response, one which matches the magnitude of the problem which we face," he said.

Mexican border cities, such as Ciudad Juarez have suffered the brunt of the violence
prompting concerns in Washington that the killings and attacks could cross over into the US.

On Wednesday at least 20 people were killed during a prison riot in the city sparked by violence between rival gangs.

Mexican authorities have said they plan to have around 7,500 troops deployed in Ciudad Juarez by the end of this week in a bid to quell the violence, along with 2,000 in the rest of Chihuahua state.

Calderon's comments come as Admiral Mike Mullen, head of the US military, is due to visit Mexico this week as the US is to step up military and other assistance to Mexico in its battle against the cartels.

In February the US department of justice said US and Mexican authorities had arrested 750 people over 21 months in an anti-drug sweep, including 52 members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/ameri ... 43356.html

AS MUCH AS I HATE TO ADMIT IT, HE'S RIGHT!!


AMERICA NEEDS TO LEGALIZE IT. HATE TO SAY IT.


MEXICO WOULDN'T HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IF US DUMB AZZES DIDN'T USE THE CRAP.

I wonder if this moron really thinks the "innocents" he calls his "people" really don't do those drugs they carry and sell? Can he truly be that stupid? And I wonder if he ever thought that maybe, just maybe, some of those illegals, anchor babies and "amnestied" fake Americans/mexican pieces of crap don't run some of those guns over the border? And I wonder if he's really such an ignorant chunk of vomit he really thinks half his "military" isn't as corrupt as his entire government, from him right on down to the dog catchers?

And this dried up cow plop dares to call us corrupt? Yeah, a lot of our officials are as crooked as a barrel of fish hooks, but I bet you could count on one hand the officials in that entire toilet south of our border who are on the up and up.

Who the hell is this human waste trying to kid???? I thought that kind of excrement only came out of a person's backside...and here is the president of the outhouse of the planet telling someone else what needs to be done to improve????? Well Calderone...you proved me wrong! It is possible to expel body waste out one's mouth!

I'll tell you what, you phlegm ball....you take all those worthless wastes of skin you call mexican citizens and you scrape them back over the border...I got a pooper scooper I'll loan you for the job...and we'll keep our citizens over here. We'll build the wall, put our military on our side of it, pull all our factories back on this side of the border...and we'll see which country is best, ok?? C'mon! I dare you!! Are you man enough? Oh...never mind. I forgot momentarily to whom (or what) I was speaking. You're not man enough. You could meld everything that passes for a man in your nation together and still not be man enough!!

Let me talk to this presidential peon!!

LOL@"outhouse of the planet" Ya thats a pretty accurate description of Mexico.

The only thing I want to hear from Mexico is " we are taking back all of our citizens from your country and we're going to pay you back for all the social services you provided for them".

Calderon waited too late to do anything about the drug problem . He just wanted millions from the US for doing nothing. And he allowed the drug cartels to arm themselves with the latest and best weapons so he is now outgunned. Hes a loser and has no one to blame but himself. We need the wall finished and our troops on the border to put an end to this.

Paidmytaxes wrote:

AMERICA NEEDS TO LEGALIZE IT. HATE TO SAY IT.

Are you advocating for the legalization of all illegal drugs that are smuggled across our borders?

Sorry, I don't share your opinion.

is this the pot calling the kettle black

jamesw62 wrote:

is this the pot calling the kettle black

Most definitely!

Originally Posted by redpony353

LOL@"outhouse of the planet" Ya thats a pretty accurate description of Mexico.

Oh yeah....sorry. That was me blowin' a gasket.