11- Mexico’s drug-fuelled violence
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906284.stm
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
NEWSPAPER: BBC NEWS
Violence spreads along and across Mexico. Once they were regarded vacation places have now turned into red zones where mafia and drug dealers coexist in a long killing with military troops. According to what was published by the New York Times, some 6000 people died in violence related to organized crime.
The violence has increased in the last years in cities where drug cartel work full time. Cities such as Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Sinaloa manage to avoid police control and patrolling by exterminating security provided by the government to innocent citizens who have nothing to do with drugs and mafia. In those cities important rug cartel operate and control the rug business using highly sophisticated weaponry gets rid of control of the Mexican army easily. Such is the power of the cartels that they promote to protests against the government’ measures in relation to cartels control.
Why the Mexican president insists on the capture of these influential people is just because he needs to have control of those regions that are out of control. This desperate need is shown in the continuous investigation of suspected corrupt police officers from low to high positions officials. The government asked the army to help him in his desperate asking for help. Yet, many human rights’ specialists warn the Mexican president the possible future ending of his democratic presidency.
Fear of being removed by the army, the Mexican president asked for help to the army and police officers to combat what is destroying a once known a Caribbean paradise.
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906284.stm
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
NEWSPAPER: BBC NEWS
Violence spreads along and across Mexico. Once they were regarded vacation places have now turned into red zones where mafia and drug dealers coexist in a long killing with military troops. According to what was published by the New York Times, some 6000 people died in violence related to organized crime.
The violence has increased in the last years in cities where drug cartel work full time. Cities such as Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Sinaloa manage to avoid police control and patrolling by exterminating security provided by the government to innocent citizens who have nothing to do with drugs and mafia. In those cities important rug cartel operate and control the rug business using highly sophisticated weaponry gets rid of control of the Mexican army easily. Such is the power of the cartels that they promote to protests against the government’ measures in relation to cartels control.
Why the Mexican president insists on the capture of these influential people is just because he needs to have control of those regions that are out of control. This desperate need is shown in the continuous investigation of suspected corrupt police officers from low to high positions officials. The government asked the army to help him in his desperate asking for help. Yet, many human rights’ specialists warn the Mexican president the possible future ending of his democratic presidency.
Fear of being removed by the army, the Mexican president asked for help to the army and police officers to combat what is destroying a once known a Caribbean paradise.
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