Death in the war on drugs

Update 1:11 PM 3/16/2010

"Many experts have pointed out that militarizing the drug war is counterproductive. Shortly after his inauguration in 2006, President Felipe Calderon began assigning large numbers of troops to fighting the drug war. The National Human Rights Commission specifically cited the case of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s murder capital, when it concluded that “using the Mexican military against drug cartels has brought no improvement in public safety.” "

Mexico gunmen kill American consulate staff

They kill journalists don't they?

That's what this movie was about. Juarez and dead journalists and dead factory worker girls. It's about murders, not about the drug trade, but with journalism being so dangerous, how do we know those girls were not just collateral damage?

I've been reading this site for years. They are all over the Americas. I guess I missed this one:

Tijuana: Gringo, This Bullet Is For You
Posted by Bill Conroy - February 28, 2010 at 3:22 pm

Yeesh, the article doesn't make me want to run out and get a passport to go play tourist in Tijuana, that's for sure. Didn't used to have to have a passport to go to Tijuana.

'Hit teams' attack US consular staff, families in Mexico: US
(AFP) – 7 hours ago

"...Shortly after the killings were disclosed by the White House, the State Department issued a travel warning for Mexico.

It said Americans working in consulates in the northern cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros were authorized to send family members home until April 12 because of security concerns.

The departure authorization only affect relatives of US government personnel in those cities, the statement said..."

The travel warning said that due to the "recent violent attacks," US citizens were urged to "delay unnecessary travel to parts of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua states."

Full State Dept (Mexico) warning

17 killed as Acapulco tourist idyll shattered by growing drug violence
March 15, 2010

Fucking idiot drugs gangs are shitting in their own nests by killing people on the outskirts of Acapulco.