Jack
15-01-2010, 10:18 AM
That news made even me choke on my coffee!
Mexico, it would seem, is turning more and more into a lawless Wild West type country as a result feuds between cartels and cartels and the government. Enjoy your holiday in Acapulco!
Mexico kicked off 2010 with a grim record: On Saturday [the day we played Irvine Meadow] the violence-plagued country tallied 69 murders in a single day. As drug cartels stepped up retaliation against the government's war on trafficking, Saturday's count included 26 murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and 13 in Mexico City. Murders are also becoming increasingly grotesque: Last week one victim's face was peeled off and sewn to a soccer ball, and yesterday the remains of a slain police officer were found in two separate ice chests.
More people have been slain in the Mexico drug wars over the past few years than as a result of the ‘war’ in Iraq! Holiday in Iraq or Mexico? Difficult choice!
A grim record indeed but to a lesser extent its happening all round the world as gangs and drugs swarm into every nook and cranny of society – possibly even in an Asda car park near you!
Some folk say that if drugs were legalised all this would stop, to a greater or lesser extent, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. Some folk are up in arms when drug mules are sentenced to death and we know that will continue.
Never mind the money. How many people were murdered, or died, for someone to get that next fix?
Mexico, it would seem, is turning more and more into a lawless Wild West type country as a result feuds between cartels and cartels and the government. Enjoy your holiday in Acapulco!
Mexico kicked off 2010 with a grim record: On Saturday [the day we played Irvine Meadow] the violence-plagued country tallied 69 murders in a single day. As drug cartels stepped up retaliation against the government's war on trafficking, Saturday's count included 26 murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and 13 in Mexico City. Murders are also becoming increasingly grotesque: Last week one victim's face was peeled off and sewn to a soccer ball, and yesterday the remains of a slain police officer were found in two separate ice chests.
More people have been slain in the Mexico drug wars over the past few years than as a result of the ‘war’ in Iraq! Holiday in Iraq or Mexico? Difficult choice!
A grim record indeed but to a lesser extent its happening all round the world as gangs and drugs swarm into every nook and cranny of society – possibly even in an Asda car park near you!
Some folk say that if drugs were legalised all this would stop, to a greater or lesser extent, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. Some folk are up in arms when drug mules are sentenced to death and we know that will continue.
Never mind the money. How many people were murdered, or died, for someone to get that next fix?