President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, planning to run with his family when his term expires, for fear
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MEXICO CITY: President Felipe Calderon has been telling guests that he and his family are likely to leave Mexico after his term expires in December. It will be too dangerous to remain, he warns in private conversation, because powerful drug mafias might come after him.
For the commander-in-chief of Mexico's US-backed drug war to suggest he has not provided enough security to live in his country is a stunning revelation - and may be seen as either an admission of failure or evidence of just how hard he has fought and how far Mexico needs to go.
As Mexicans went to the polls yesterday to vote for his successor, Mr Calderon finds his legacy battered, his ruling party unpopular and its standard bearer, Josefina Vazquez Mota, trailing in third place in the pre-election surveys.
Limited to a single six-year term, Mr Calderon remains popular, with ratings hovering about 50 per cent. Yet two of every three Mexicans recently surveyed said the country was headed in the wrong direction. According to a spokesman, Mr Calderon was ''considering a variety of options both at home and abroad … to contribute to finding solutions to global problems''. They said ''security will not be factor''.
The election, said the pollster Roy Campos, ''appears to be about change''.
Ahead in every major survey during the three-month presidential campaign is Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the telegenic young face of the old corrupt party that ran Mexico as ''a perfect dictatorship'' for more than 70 years, before the dinosaurs, as Mexicans call them, were defeated by Mr Calderon's predecessor, Vicente Fox, in 2000.
After 12 years of Mr Fox and Mr Calderon, voters appear tired of the more conservative, pro-Catholic, pro-business National Action Party, which failed to pass the grand reforms their leaders promised to modernise the country and turn it into a kind of Brazil, the envy of Latin America.
The toll of Mr Calderon's drug war - the sensational, mediaeval violence, the 60,000 dead, major cities occupied by masked soldiers - appears also to have exhausted the patience of voters.
While most Mexicans, about 80 per cent, back the continued deployment of the military in the drug war, almost the same number describe violence, and human rights violations by the army as their major concern.
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Your fucking fault for starting this whole mess.
And now that this is out, he gets killed BEFORE his term ends.
The Mexican drug war is bordering on a Civil War now
Pretty encouraging to the Mexican people to have their leader leave the country for the same thing they promised to fix when they got elected. (making Mexico a safer place )
And he.. he released this info? And the media published it?
He's going to die before the end of the month now.
I would not tell a fucking soul if I was in the same situation.
[QUOTE=AlphaGunman;36577904]And now that this is out, he gets killed BEFORE his term ends.[/QUOTE]
And he only had two days 'till retirement!
I bet you now that this is out he's already leaving the country.
Not even hiding that the cartels rule Mexico now. Well, shit.
I want him to come with America, he can shed some light on what's going on down there in Mexico and maybe help us intervene.
[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;36579413]I want him to come with America, he can shed some light on what's going on down there in Mexico and maybe help us intervene.[/QUOTE]
To let the army of a foreign country into your own is like signing away your sovereignty. Don't expect Mexico to do something like that anytime soon.
[QUOTE=download;36577917]The Mexican drug war is bordering on a Civil War now[/QUOTE]
I couldn't see how this would happen. The drugs cartels wouldn't unite to fight against the state, they're too busy fighting each other. Anyway I don't think the Cartels have popular support to do so and what would they gain from a civil war?
[QUOTE=Rather Not;36579683]To let the army of a foreign country into your own is like signing away your sovereignty. Don't expect Mexico to do something like that anytime soon.[/QUOTE]
Hundreds of civilians are dying each month because of this, this is a really fucking huge issue.
Wow, I feel really bad for him.
And we can thank this whole entire mess to the war on drugs
SURE SOLVES A LOT OF PROBLEMS DOESNT IT?
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;36580471]And we can thank this whole entire mess to the war on drugs
SURE SOLVED A LOT OF PROBLEMS DOESNT IT?[/QUOTE]
The cartels do other things besides drugs, human trafficking, extortion, assassinations, theft, and stuff like that. The war on drugs may have increased their power/ferocity but don't directly attribute it to the war on drugs. Other variables are at play here, but yes the War on Drugs has arguably increased their scope of power.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;36580499]yeah we get it but legalizing anything isn't going to do shit now
unless you count on legalizing kidnapping americans for more money, selling illegal weapons, forced prostitution, extortion of local businesses, the list goes on[/QUOTE]
Except you're wrong. They wouldn't have the money or the resources to pull off that shit like they do currently if one of their main pillars of revenue was cut off.
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36581181]Except you're wrong. They wouldn't have the money or the resources to pull off that shit like they do currently if one of their main pillars of revenue was cut off.[/QUOTE]
You think by legalizing drugs they'll just say "Okay you have us beat" and stop? I doubt that very much.
Mexico is not the place to be, the shame of it all is that there cant be much done to the cartels. Its kind of like hydra.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;36580499]yeah we get it but legalizing anything isn't going to do shit now
unless you count on legalizing kidnapping americans for more money, selling illegal weapons, forced prostitution, extortion of local businesses, the list goes on[/QUOTE]
Exactly. Even if we did legalize it, all it would do is [B]maybe[/B] lightly damage their profit margins. Want this to end? We need to stop it at the source.
The War on Drugs DID make this situation come to fruition, but reversing the policies won't undo it. The mess has gone too far. As a peace loving liberal, it makes me feel very stupid to say this, but we need to act with force.
He'll be welcomed into the US. He's more or less a US puppet. But at least he's a good guy, overall. Alot of his negatives are because of American pressure concerning NAFTA and the private market and drug wars.
It's kind of strange, really, that Mexico suffered 60 years under the PRI (more or less a puppet of the US in the same way Mubarak was) and this is the first time a president hasn't been PRI in that time, and now the PRI is the opposition to the puppet and is gaining favor again even though Mexicans are still iffy on them and liked the puppet.
[QUOTE=shian;36577880]Your fucking fault for starting this whole mess.[/QUOTE]
I disagree, he declared "war" on drugs to stem the growing influence and power of the cartels, but when he cracked down on the police and brought out the military to respond all hell broke loose with the cartel's response.
They've taken down some cartels and leaders, yet others replaced them as they always have because of the United State's own insatiable demand for drugs. Even now we don't seem to comprehend our own role in it, and instead dismiss it as "another country's problem"
[QUOTE=Bentham;36581274]You think by legalizing drugs they'll just say "Okay you have us beat" and stop? I doubt that very much.[/QUOTE]
Not at all, but they certainly won't be able to do extremely high profile stuff like, oh, you know, killing forty civs and then hang them from an overpass.
It's sad that a honest man can not feel safe in his own country.
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