We put two articles side-by-side to highlight the insanity of the Calderon government's "whack-a-mole" drug war strategy. To paraphrase Shakespeare, "Me thinks he doeth protest too much!"
Note also that one of the stories is published in a Singapore newspaper. The world is watching Mexico. This blog has many readers from Europe, including Russia and the Ukraine, and from Asia. South Koreans pay many visits to the site.
Mexico rejects drug war truce: "President Felipe Calderon's spokesman for security matters insisted there could be no negotations with criminals after a Ciudad Juarez-based newspaper said it regarded the drug lords as the northern city's effective rulers." Sept. 21, 2010, Singapore Press Straits Times
Sacramento's Mexican consul vows victory in drug war - Sacramento Bee: The Mexican government "will win the war" against the brutal, violent drug cartels that have ravaged the country, the consul general of Mexico in Sacramento, Carlos González Gutiérrez, told a California State University, Sacramento, audience Monday. Sept. 21, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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