Plan Merida = Victory?
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.
Mexican murders associated with organized crime and drug trafficking passed the 5,000 mark for the year, almost twice the number killed in all of 2007.
A total of 5,031 people have died this year in violence stemming from organized crime, including 35 in the past 24 hours, newspaper El Universal said, based on data it compiles. The pace of the violence has escalated over the year; the first thousand deaths occurred in 113 days, the last thousand in 42 days, the newspaper said.
Now that the United States is underwriting 197 million dollars — out of 4.5 billion dollars promised — in U.S. equipment and consulting purchases (NOT, as some media reports have it, “delivering 197 million dollars to Mexico”), we can expect still more “momentary victories” in the “war on drugs.” And more deaths in what should properly be called the “war on the unregulated export commodities market”.
mexfiles.net 