Forget the Russian ‘Threat’: Mexico Is Our Real Problem:
The cartels control our southern neighbor
[W]e hear
almost nothing about the one country where journalists who report on official
corruption are routinely killed, and in such numbers that the death toll makes
Russia look like a utopian paradise – Mexico, where more than one-hundred
reporters have been slaughtered by the drug cartels and their collaborators
inside the Mexican government. The killers are rarely found, let alone punished:
as of 2012, 98%
of homicides in Mexico went unsolved. ...
Some problems don’t have solutions, and this may be one of them. The accumulated
stupidity and venality of the Mexican and US authorities over past decades has
created such a toxic brew of social decomposition and political dysfunction
that we can only await the coming explosion with a mixture of fear and hope
– hope that our leaders will force their gaze away from the far horizons of
the Middle East and focus on the rising crisis right here on our own southern
border.
