Death by Appointment
Mexican drug cartels and the competitive wars between drug kingpins has wracked Mexico and turned it into a country where the rule of law has been mocked and crucified in the interests of building a marketplace for the sale of mind-altering addiction to supply an insatiable market, smuggling the contraband into the United States and creating havoc on both sides of the border.Mexico has stumbled and fallen to its knees in its attempts by government to stem the tide of anarchy and brutality on a scale most civilized countries can hardly imagine. Politicians, law enforcement agents, military, have been suborned, and bought off. Other politicians, law enforcement agents and members of the military and the public at large have been butchered in horrifying atrocities.
Bodies left dangling grotesquely, hanging from bridges and highway overpasses to instill fear and foreboding in the minds of ordinary people, living with the terror of being caught in a cross-fire. And law agents in dread of their lives, being targeted for annihilation after torture as payment in full for making the attempt to do their duty.
The government of President Felipe Calderon has seen the battle engaged and failed, and the assassinations escalating. Even yet, even while a second minister, this one the interior minister tasked with controlling the runaway violence, has been killed, official sources claim this to have been a weather-related accident, deeply regrettable.
Three years earlier another interior secretary was dispatched in a plane crash. Conspiracy theorists would have it that this was a successful planned assassination. Another warning to the government to stand back and allow the country to be overrun and managed by the drug lords. Drug trafficking has overtaken all other legitimate concerns in Mexico by its malign presence.
It can only be viewed as eerily prescient, or a starkly informed warning of a planned event, that the day before the crash of the Interior Minister Blake Mora, someone had posted a comment on Twitter that "tomorrow, 11-11, one secretary would fall from the sky. Avoid Reforma".
Over 43,000 people have met their death in the violence related to the cartels running amok in the country between 2006 and the present. The helicopter that crashed with the interior secretary and senior staff members was en route to a prosecutors' meeting. The government is determined to continue its battle with the country's barbarian-minded criminal element.
And President Calderon is set to appoint the fifth interior secretary of his term, which is set to end in December 2012. Anywhere else, in any other country, it would be a prestigious appointment; the secretary is second to the president in power, responsible for domestic affairs and security.
In Mexico, appointment to the post seems more like an assured death sentence for a patriot.
Labels: Conflict, Corruption, Crime, Mexico
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, November 13, 2011
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