Newsmax thinks Mexico is actually in a civil war
Drug Civil War Rages in MexicoSunday, May 11, 2008 7:10 PM
By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size
A full-scale civil war is raging in Mexico — and few are paying attention.
Drug cartels seeking to keep control over huge swathes of Mexico have been on a rampage. In the past two weeks alone, at least 10 police officials have been murdered -…
So far, estimates say more than 3,000 Mexicans have been killed, with almost 1,000 deaths this year alone in a brutal struggle by the civilian government to reassert authority.
Who exactly made those estimates?
Linkity:
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/drug_mexico_cartel/2008/05/11/95167.html
Tags: exaggeration
May 15, 2008 at 8:08 pm
This story is all over the news, if you bother to read anything else like USATODAY, which is where I first read the story.
Here’s a blurb from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11376335
The gangs have not restricted themselves to killing senior policemen, though. According to Guillermo Zepeda of CIDAC, a think-tank in Mexico City, the week leading up to May 12th saw a total of 113 murders in Mexico, including 17 people on a single day. Estimates of the total number of deaths linked to drugs and organised crime so far this year range from 1,100 to 2,500 people. The war on drugs has never seemed less like a metaphor.
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7402523.stm
It is not just to protect police officers and soldiers - civilians are being killed too.
Some 1,100 people - about nine a day - have been killed in Mexico so far this year in drug-related violence. Not all were police officers or cartel members.
Since 2006, just two and a half years, more than 6,000 people have died.
For comparison, in Iraq, the combined total of American and British military personnel deaths is around 4,200 since 2003.
“We have to come together to confront this evil, we Mexicans have to definitively and categorically say ‘That’s enough!’,” Mr Calderon said.
But it doesn’t appear to be enough for the cartels. Their ruthless pursuit of illicit drugs profits means anyone, in uniform or out, can end up as an addition to Mexico’s escalating tally of violent statistics.
May 15, 2008 at 8:08 pm
This story is all over the news, if you bother to read anything else like USATODAY, which is where I first read the story.
Here’s a blurb from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11376335
The gangs have not restricted themselves to killing senior policemen, though. According to Guillermo Zepeda of CIDAC, a think-tank in Mexico City, the week leading up to May 12th saw a total of 113 murders in Mexico, including 17 people on a single day. Estimates of the total number of deaths linked to drugs and organised crime so far this year range from 1,100 to 2,500 people. The war on drugs has never seemed less like a metaphor.
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7402523.stm
It is not just to protect police officers and soldiers - civilians are being killed too.
Some 1,100 people - about nine a day - have been killed in Mexico so far this year in drug-related violence. Not all were police officers or cartel members.
Since 2006, just two and a half years, more than 6,000 people have died.
For comparison, in Iraq, the combined total of American and British military personnel deaths is around 4,200 since 2003.
“We have to come together to confront this evil, we Mexicans have to definitively and categorically say ‘That’s enough!’,” Mr Calderon said.
But it doesn’t appear to be enough for the cartels. Their ruthless pursuit of illicit drugs profits means anyone, in uniform or out, can end up as an addition to Mexico’s escalating tally of violent statistics.
Yes…Google is amazing.
May 19, 2008 at 9:33 am
It might be true that only 4200 Westerners have been killed in Iraq, and it might be the case that many more have died but their deaths have not been admitted.