Thread: Fox Calls for Stricter Punishments

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From Associated Press - Breaking News

Amid Border Crime Wave, Mexico's Fox Calls for Stricter Punishments for Corruption

By Will Weissert Associated Press Writer
Published: Jun 17, 2005

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox on Friday condemned "the terrible bubble" of killings and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border and called for tougher punishment of corrupt officials.

Speaking at an event in Mexico's capital, the president said he would submit new sentencing proposals to Congress, saying "We cannot accept that our own police forces are those that are contaminated."

"We are up to the challenge and will do battle with all kinds of criminals," Fox said.

Authorities in both countries blame the violence on a war for control of key smuggling routes into the United States between two of Mexico's most powerful drug syndicates.

Last week, the chief of police of the industrial border hub of Nuevo Laredo was shot dozens of times and killed mere hours after he took the post, prompting Fox's government to send soldiers and federal agents while suspending the whole city police force.

His comments came as Mexican officials were preparing to meet with federal counterparts from the United States to discuss arms trafficking and ways to stop the border bloodshed.

Members of a working group on criminal investigation formed as part of the U.S-Mexico Binational Commission were to meet in Mexico City on Friday evening.

Addressing reporters in Washington on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called border violence "a very serious problem."

"We're very concerned about it and we're raising it at all levels of the Mexican government," she said.

At his morning briefing with reporters Friday, Fox spokesman Ruben Aguilar said that the crime wave "as Secretary Rice acknowledged yesterday, is the co-responsibility of both countries."

"We don't want violence on the border: not on the Mexican side or the U.S. side," Aguilar said.

U.S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said hours later, "We're seeing action by the Mexican government that's noteworthy and important."

But, he added, "This is a big challenge and we need to continue to stay on it."

On Thursday, gunmen shot and killed Pedro Madrigal, commander of a detail of anti-drug agents assigned to Mexico City's international airport.

Aguilar said that since Madrigal took his post in November, the 321 kilograms (708 pounds) of cocaine agents had seized is "the most important amount in the history of the Mexico City airport."

"The investigation has revealed that there is a relation between the ... extreme effectiveness of this official against organized crime and his killing," Aguilar said.

He shrugged off suggestions that the wave of killings could be seeping south from the border to other locales, including the nation's capital.

"We all know that this is basically concentrated in the states of the north," he said.

But Aguilar added that anti-narcotics investigators are always potential targets of hit men working for drug pushers.

"That's common sense. The Mexican state assumes that," he said. "Of course it's a risk, any official in the line of fire against organized crime knows that he is also in the sights of the criminals."

AP-ES-06-17-05 1607EDT

"President Vicente Fox on Friday condemned "the terrible bubble" of killings and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border and called for tougher punishment of corrupt officials."


Hope he starts with himself

Foxie has more hot air than a dirigible.

Yeah, he should bag that stuff and sell it for fertilizer...

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

"President Vicente Fox on Friday condemned "the terrible bubble" of killings and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border and called for tougher punishment of corrupt officials."


Hope he starts with himself

Too bad he won't though.

Originally Posted by dman1200

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

"President Vicente Fox on Friday condemned "the terrible bubble" of killings and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border and called for tougher punishment of corrupt officials."


Hope he starts with himself

Too bad he won't though.

we can still hope. what goes around comes around

He is a liar. He and the other corrupt officials are only saying these things because they see that the americans are getting tired of taking care of their people, as well as giving them foreign aid while they allow murderers, rapists, etc to run free as soon as they cross the border. And they wonder why they cannot run their country correctly. Maybe if they stopped thinking that life sentences and death penalties for murderers were not cruel and unusual punishment, maybe they would not have so much corruption and maybe just maybe they would have a future to build on. I have never heard of a country who thinks that life in prison or the death penalty for murdering someone was too harsch. But then again, why do you think most mexicans cannot get a lVisa? Why do you think most don't even bother to apply for a visa? Fox does not want to spend the money to keep them incarcerated. It is almost the same thing Fidel Castro did when he opened all the insane asylums and prisons in Cuba and allowed them to come to America. Come to think of it, we did have some crazy, loud cuban neighbors growing up who thought screaming was how you talked to each other.

I expect you are right sonali.

I smell a rat in all of this. If you ask me, this is the beginning of bigger problems south of the border.

What about the killings, rape, child molestation, etc of the people in Chiapas? What about justice for them? He is the one who encouraged them to come over here illegally. When you tell a group of somewhat primative, starving, angry people to go to america and colonize it with irresponsible breeding, while ignoring it(as well as telling the people it is okay for them to invade because it belongs to mexico and we stole it from them), what do you expect. Mentally, those people are kind of like savages. What I can't understand is if they so fear and dislike us, then why do they allow themselves to be enslaved by white leaders, especially fox, who has an irish grandfather. We are not to blame and as citizens, I hope we donnot suffer any grief over this.