Thread: The Threat From Mexico

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FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
The threat from Mexico
Political, economic unrest to force border security as No. 1 priority?

Posted: June 6, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Ronald Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, credited with engineering the demise of the Soviet Union, once predicted – because of illegal immigration and social unrest south of the border – the U.S. would be at war with Mexico by 2003.

As the U.S. becomes increasingly concerned about just those issues – and one more, the growing power and violence of the drug cartels operating in and around the border – some U.S. intelligence and military analysts are dusting off Weinberger's "Operation Aztec" battle plan for review.

Weinberger's scenario outlined a rapid three-pronged military invasion designed to control domestic Mexican unrest and stem the influx of millions of immigrants.

Likewise, in a 1994 Pentagon briefing paper dealing with "deployment of U.S. troops in Mexico as a result of widespread economic and social chaos," Donald E. Schultz, a professor of national security at the U.S. Army's War College around the same time wrote: "A hostile government could put U.S. investments in Mexico in danger, jeopardize access to oil, produce a flood of political refugees and economic migrants to the north."

Meanwhile, Mexican President Vicente Fox is indeed concerned about his country's internal security. A few days ago, he summoned to Sinaloa a meeting with top-level officials to discuss various issues of Mexican national security.

The meeting was described by observers as a "top-level group to define Mexican security actions." The president guided his group of experts to draft within the next 90 days, a structure and mechanism proposal on several critical security issues. He instructed the team to prepare strategies to combat illegal arms build-ups, to fight small time drug traders and to find ways to reduce drug addiction prevalence and money laundering. According to the presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar, Fox instructed his top-level group to divide the upcoming 90 days into 30-, 60- and 90-day time spans.

Oddly, however, the border with the U.S. was a very low priority for Fox and his advisers. They were concerned more with their own southern borders with Belize and Guatemala, where Mexico faces its own illegal immigration crisis.

It seems unavoidable that the U.S.-Mexico border is going to be the big issue in the 2006 mid-term elections in the U.S., whether or not it is a major issue for Mexican politicians vying for political office next year:

The Zetas, a group of U.S.-trained commandos who turned from drug interdiction to drug cartel protection, have killed hundreds along the border since January, raising concerns even from the U.S. Justice Department, which seldom likes to acknowledge any problems with Mexico.

The illegal immigration wave continues unabated with no plans in sight from the Bush administration. Members of Congress from both parties are currently planning to introduce bills in the coming weeks to militarize the border.

While the Zetas are concerned with cross-border drug-running operations, other criminal gangs, some just as deadly, run the people smuggling operations. And there are growing concerns in Washington about the ability of terrorist groups to buy their way into the U.S. through these contacts.

Illegal immigration in the U.S. far outpaces legal immigration, causing economic and cultural problems, as well as security issues.
Experts on Mexican security and crime say Fox, preparing for the 2006 presidential campaign, is definitely worried about deteriorating relations with the U.S., particularly with U.S. border-states.

Fox is facing a big political challenge from the growing power and popularity of Mexico City's mayor, Anres Manuel Lopez Obrador, nicknamed AMLO. On May 24, Obrador came out with a remarkable show of force, bringing into the streets 1.2 million non-violent demonstrators to protest attempts by the president to curb his candidacy through judicial acrobatics. The demonstration's dimension, the way it reverberated across the country, and the apparent re-organizing of indigenous and left-wing guerrilla fighters and guerrilla sympathizers, sent shockwaves throughout the Mexican oligarchy.

More than 40 Percent of Mexicans live below the poverty line. Although Mexican officials tend to brag only 3.2 percent of the population is unemployed, CIA experts explain that more than 25 percent of those labeled as working are in reality, and according to any western standards, severely under employed. When these data are added to many other ailments in the country's socio-political reality it is no wonder the mass's discontent, unrest and instability is about to burst.

Security experts claim a variety of groups and organizations plan to play an active role in the coming election campaign, hoping to bring down the Fox administration as well as the present military and police establishments. These include the:

Aboriginal Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN, which in the 90s waged war on the state, and then negotiated a cease-fire with Fox's predecessor.

The Popular Liberation Army, EPR, based mainly in the Guerreo State.

Commando Jaramillista Moreense de 23 Mayo, also known as the CJM23M. An illusive group which so far surfaced mainly through leaflets, press releases and threats against the state.
More groups mentioned in the May-June 2001 publication of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Military Review are:

The People's Revolutionary Army, EPR,

The Revolutionary Army of Insurgent Peoples. ERPI,

The People's Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARP,

The Villist Revolutionary Army of the People, VRAP, and

The Clandestine Revolutionary Army of the Poor, CRAP.
Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have recently added accumulating information on jihadi groups establishing shop in Mexico City and other urban centers. An FBI wanted list for drug cartel bosses placed Ramon Eduardo Arellano-Felix at the top, describing him as extremely violent and probably with extensive narco-terror connection, setting him next to terrorist Osama bin Laden on the FBI 10 most wanted list. This by itself illuminates the appalling scope of the problem.

The Sinaloa meeting deliberately avoided dealing with so-called "mega-problems" and instead focused more on relatively petty local crimes. This is an indication the Fox administration is planning to use the infamous traditional Mexican political solution of joining forces with drug cartels despite its malignant ripple affect on the Mexican and even U.S. societies.

The Mexican and the U.S. administrations, each government for reasons of its own, are doing their utmost to dodge issues around the border-crossing epidemic from Mexico to the U.S. As politicians in Washington are trying to avoid coping with public opinion or evade voicing support to such initiatives as the Minuteman Project and the Yuma Patriots, these very issues do not escape the eyes of the Department of Homeland Security and immigration authorities.

The above data when added to the overall, possibly shaky, political situation in Mexico, and with Fox's open disregard for mutual border respect, the U.S. is faced with a dangerously looming confrontation with her supposedly friendly neighbor in the south.

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Our congress had best get busy and fast. I've wondered why they were waiting for a 'threat from Al Qaeda'...our enemy is to the south. This battle is really going to be fun...with millions of Mexicans, well armed, already in the US...watch your back!!

RR

I really think something HUGE is getting ready to happen. There are just too many clues out there. OTM people are crossing the border everyday in hoards. Mexicans, Hondurans, Guatamalians, Brazilians, and other Latin American people are crossing over by the thousands everyday. It's just a matter of time before someone tries to smuggle in WMD's. Most likely, these weapons are already here.
Rumor has it, that June 6, 2006, (666) will be the biggest day of destruction yet. You know these terrorists love to pick and choose these days of terror.
Bush better wake up and lock-down the borders, and remove everyone that is here illegally. It's so easy, DEPORT THEM!

That is a very interesting article. Think I will do a little research of Casper.

Social Justice Center
of Marin


Chiapas and the U.S. Militarization of Mexico


Reign of Terror in Chiapas, Mexico
On January 1, 1994, in Chiapas, the poorest state in Mexico, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) rebelled against decades of poverty and neglect. The uprising was sparked by a government decision to abandon land reform, worsening the endemic poverty, hunger and malnutrition of the Indian peasants there. Since then, the Mexican army has occupied eastern Chiapas and declared war on its indigenous inhabitants.
The Mexican government's strategy is to destroy the Zapatistas without provoking a major battle that would frighten foreign financiers and investors. This counter-insurgency strategy involves "talking peace and preparing war", to convince international public opinion of Mexico's peaceful intentions, while terrorizing the poverty-stricken Indians of Chiapas with U.S. - style "low intensity" warfare relying on paramilitary forces and death squads.
Army and police units encourage arbitrary detention, intimidation and harassment of villagers. Paramilitary units routinely attack indigenous people, and through kidnapping, torture and murder, terrorize anyone who dares to protest in favor of land reform or for any kind of local economic self-sufficiency.
The "Drug War" and the U.S. Militarization of Mexico
In 1989, the U.S. State Department identified Mexico as the primary entry point for drugs coming into the U.S. It also identified Mexico as the second most important source of petroleum for the United States. The war on drugs in Mexico has become a convenient cover for Mexican military operations to control the oil reserves and other resources in Chiapas to which the U.S. wants access.
In January 1995, a memo by U.S. financial giant Chase Bank warned Mexican officials that "the government will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and security policy." The memo made it clear that the real object of U.S. economic and military aid to Mexico was to maintain political stability, so that investor confidence could be guaranteed. Then, on February 9, 1995, Mexico's military launched a surprise offensive into the Zapatista region, breaking a year-long truce. The army has occupied the territory ever since, and has essentially declared war on its indigenous population.
Since 1996, the Pentagon has established a special forces training program for Mexican officials. In 1997, 1,500 Mexican military officials passed the elite training program for rapid response. Special rapid action forces and U.S.-supplied helicopters and surveillance planes are in place for "surgical strikes. The U.S. choppers are constantly hovering over Zapatista villages. The anti-narcotic military training has been converted into an instrument to repress the impoverished villages of Chiapas.
"Free Market" Poverty
In 1982, Mexico began the process of privatization, deregulation and spending cuts. The result has been a massive transfer of resources from the salaried work-force to the owners and controllers of capital, and from public control and accountability to a small number of private elite. Over the past decade, the gap between Mexico's rich and poor has increased. Between 1988-1994, the number of Mexican billionaires rose from 2 to 24, while nearly a fifth of the population (more than 17 million) made less than $350 per person per year.
Half of Mexico's 93 million people live in poverty. Malnutrition now afflicts 40 to 65 percent of the population. In impoverished indigenous communities, malnutrition approaches 85 percent. Each day 433 Mexican children under 5 years of age die from diseases related to malnutrition - 158,000 children each year.
Chiapas has a population of about 3.5 million. Half the people lack potable water and two-thirds have no sewer system. A mere 20 of Chiapas' families own 18.4 million acres. The majority of indigenous campesinos own less than two acres each.
Chiapas is the poorest of Mexico's 31 states. In terms of resources, however, Chiapas is considered Mexico's richest state. Mexico's national oil company, Pemex, has nearly 100 wells in Chiapas. More than half of all hydroelectric power comes from Chiapas (while only a third of the local houses have electricity). Thirty-five percent of Mexico's coffee and significant amounts of beef, wood and corn also come from Chiapas.
Repression in Mexico
In 1992, Mexico's President Salinas amended the Mexican Constitution, repudiating land reform, one of the founding ideals of the Mexican Republic, and legalized the private sale of the communal farms, established after the Mexican Revolution. Prior to Salinas' decision, 70 percent of all Mexican farmers worked on communal farms, much of it supporting subsistence rather than commercial farming. Following the passage of NAFTA, the vast majority of Mexico's small farmers can no Ionger compete with cheap imported U.S. food.
The NAFTA-driven economy is delivering a final knockout blow to the ancient self-sufficient, small corn-farming economy of Mexico's indigenous communities. Indigenous land is vulnerable to corporate and elite buy-outs. Economists predict that as many as 10 million Mexican farmers could be displaced by the year 2004.
According to the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, there is an inverse relationship between investment and employment in Mexico. The more investment, the fewer jobs. The Zapatistas understand this. That is why they resist free trade and seek to engage Mexico, and the world, in a dialogue about "neo-liberalism."
A U.S. Plan to Invade Mexico?
Since the January 1, 1994 Zapatista uprising, Mexico's military budget has increased forty-fold. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting that the US is considering scenarios for direct military intervention in Mexico.
A 1994 Pentagon briefing paper, declassified under the Freedom Of Information Act, predicted that "deployment of US troops to Mexico would be received favorably if the Mexican government were to confront the threat of being overthrown as a result of widespread economic and social chaos."
In the book, The Next War, former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger envisions a war with Mexico in the year 2003, resulting from massive, out-of control migrations prompted by social unrest in Mexico. Weinberger's scenario outlines a rapid three-pronged military invasion, nicknamed "Operation Aztec," designed to control domestic unrest and stem the influx of millions of immigrants.http://www.socialjusticecenterofmarin.org/Issues/Chiapas.html

Rumor has it, that June 6, 2006, (666) will be the biggest day of destruction yet.

Do you have links or other info in this? Im curious as to where you found this.

Originally Posted by ChrisF202

Rumor has it, that June 6, 2006, (666) will be the biggest day of destruction yet.

Do you have links or other info in this? Im curious as to where you found this.

Well 666 has always been a santanic sign according to the bible. I've seen references to June 6, 2006 many times. I googled it and got this so far:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/90122/1.ashx

I'm not a jehovah witness or a fruitcake. Its just a rumor that I heard, because terrorists like to have a date that signifies something. What could be better for them than the sign of the devil?
I didn't mean to make false statements or alarm anyone.