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Mexico's Drug Wars Reach into Canada with Control of Market and Killings

NATIONAL POST (9/15/09) - Well before the Mexican government advertised its war on drugs, there were signs in British Columbia that things were going awry in the lucrative narcotics trade.Described as a region with "powerful" organized crime units, but no dominant group, more than 120 gangs operate in the area, all of them capitalizing on the drug trade.

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Vancouver police near the body of a man who was shot dead on Tuesday. B.C. police report a spike in gang-related violence related to Mexico

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Left: President Felipe Calderón gives State of Union speech earlier this month.


	"Narco Safari" of Mexican Drug Cartels El Universal (9/14/09) - Mexican/Columbian capos ship drugs to Africa as transit point to Europe and Russia. U.S. Experts warn that the risk is compounded by cooperation with terrorists, including Islamic Jihadists.Original Spanish TRANSLATED ENGLISH VERSION

		"Urgent, police reform in Mexico"  Report says cartels are better armed than the Army   Doris Gomora El Universal (9/13/09) The U.S. government should implement a strategic plan to fight drug trafficking, while the government of Mexico must continue to fight against cartels to reassert state control in areas dominated by drug trafficking organizations, according to a report of the National Defense University, written for the Pentagon, which neither supports or disapproves of his conclusions. LINK TO ORIGINAL PENTAGON STUDY ON MEXICO, CHAPTER 15 Mexico Chapter Interesting Mexican Interpretation of Pentagon-ordered study Original Spanish TRANSLATED ENGLISH VERSION

31 Mexican police arrested for alleged drug ties

(AP) Sept. 15, 2009 MEXICO CITY — Thirty-one police officers have been arrested in a central Mexican state on suspicion of collaborating with a gang of drug cartel hit men.Drug violence is spilling over the border.

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Afghanistan? Iraq? No, it’s our neighbor to the south, Mexico, and the war is against the drug trafficking cartels looking to muscle each other out of the lucrative business of selling dope to Americans. With the murder rate spiraling — 338 people were killed in August alone — the violence is spreading across the border.

In May, a drug informant who lived in El Paso was shot dead in his front yard, in broad daylight. His alleged attacker was arrested Thursday, also in El Paso. Read Full Story

Mexico Violence May Sap 3% of GDP as Gangs Flourish

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s fight against organized crime has failed to lessen the economic cost of violence, which wrests as much as 3 percent from gross domestic product, according to Bulltick Capital. Read Full Story

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Weapons, among other items including gold-plated submachine gunes, drugs, money and jewellery, seized during several anti-narcotics operations in Mexico are displayed during a news conference at the headquarters of the Attorney General.

The seductive lure of Mexico's drug lords

Natalie Alcoba, National Post (9/11/09)
The seductive trappings of a bloody business that is consuming Mexico is stored in warehouses that dot the countryside. Read Full Story


Mexico's Hopeless Drug War Decriminaluzation is an admission things aen't getting better Wall Street Journal Analysis Sept 13, 2009 Mexico's big problem—for that matter the most pressing security issue throughout the hemisphere—is organized crime's growth and expanded power, fed by drug profits. Mr. Calderón's new policy is unlikely to solve anything in that department. Read Full Story

		Mexico: The final leap for drugs into the United States - Feature - Earth Times Sept. 14, 2009 Mexico City - Mexico is the final stop for cocaine and other drugs from Latin America on their way to the huge United States market, and has increasingly become a violent battleground for the narcotics trade. In the greed to cash in on the estimated 18-39 billion dollars. Read Full Story

		What Does Mexico’s New Drug Law Portend? New York Times (Sept. 3, 2009) has five Mexican experts give their views of what Mexico's decreimination of drugs - not only marijuana but killer cocaine and LSD - will to the country and its drug wars. Great slide show picturs of drug wars as well. Read All Analyses

	LONGEST WAR - Mexico's Decriminalization sign that U.S. losing global drug war? Korea Times - Sept. 13, 2009 t's too early to say that there is a general revolt against the ``war on drugs'' that the United States has been waging for the past 39 years, but something significant is happening. Read Full Story

The case for legalising all drugs is unanswerable Guardian Newspaper, UK Sept. 13, 2009 The war on drugs is a failed policy that has injured far more people than it has protected. Around 14,000 people have died iin Mexico’s drug wars since the end of 2006, more than 1,000 of them in the first three months of this year. The anti-drug crusade will go down as among the greatest follies of modern times.Read Full Story

	DRY STATE A farmer rode past a carcass in Tabasco State, which has lost about 7,000 animals.

Mexico Enduring Worst Drought in 60 Years
New York Times Sept. 14, 2009

Mexico is enduring its worst drought in six decades. Crops are drying up in the fields and water is being rationed in the capital. Residents of poor neighborhoods have hijacked water trucks, and there are other signs of social tensions building.

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