Mexico collapse watch thread

Cynus · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 594

I'm starting this thread to post news relevant to the coming collapse of Mexico as a nation state. I'll start the ball rolling:

MIAMI -- Mexico is beginning to look like a war zone, Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas writes in her syndicated column, and the drug cartels are better equipped than the government. Salinas argues that the problem is systemic: Mexican drug traffickers did not become powerful overnight. It’s been decades in the making. Organized crime has infiltrated law enforcement and governmental agencies; former police and federal agents are now the hired killers of drug cartels; and politicians have been paid to turn a blind eye.

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=dccad2b6d18a5c859f2e8b50444b39db
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cipi604 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

USA should build a higher fence to the border... maybe more than one Smile

Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1931

Que lastima! Mexico es muerte.
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misterno · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

Since most of the government's revenue stems from oilproduction, the more production goes down, the more country finance will go down.

I am expecting huge number of people trying to cross the border in the near future. More than ever before.

Did you know that gas is more expensive in MX than in US?

WyoDutch · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

America has two major problems to deal with as Mexico collapses from the weight of its own corruption...

1. The hordes marching north...

and

2. The weasel on the left.

Fishman · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

Not sure how Bush affects Mexico's collapse, guess you can blame anything you want. More importantly with Mexico's upcoming (ongoing) collapse is how a clueless one like Obama will deal with refugees flowing north from Los Estados Unidos de Mexico.

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KingM · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

How many of you have actually been to Mexico?

There's a saying in Spanish that applies: en boca cerrada, no entran moscas.

Fishman · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

Worked down there four times. Enjoy the food and culture, don't want to import the entire population

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gollum · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

gollum · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

Does anyone know if the flow of illegals has slowed with the collapse of the housing sector????

mos6507 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

gollum · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

"Probably welcome them as refugees, only to see people die of thirst in the southwest due to the overshoot."

Maybe now, but not 3-10 years from now when unemployment here is say 10% and the doctored CPI is up 10% a year. Americans, even democrats wont stand for it. These invaders will be lynched by unemployed americans. This is the kind of thing that starts revolutions and TPTB know that.

vetusfirma · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Mexico collapse watch thread

I don't speak spanish, the language of the oppressor, but I do know a good story in English, the language of the people who defeated the oppressors.

Operation Wetback

In 1949 the Border Patrol seized nearly 280,000 illegal immigrants. By 1953, the numbers had grown to more than 865,000, and the U.S. government felt pressured to do something about the onslaught of immigration. What resulted was Operation Wetback, devised in 1954 under the supervision of new commissioner of the Immigration and Nationalization Service, Gen. Joseph Swing.

Swing oversaw the Border patrol, and organized state and local officials along with the police. The object of his intense border enforcement were "illegal aliens," but common practice of Operation Wetback focused on Mexicans in general. The police swarmed through Mexican American barrios throughout the southeastern states. Some Mexicans, fearful of the potential violence of this militarization, fled back south across the border. In 1954, the agents discovered over 1 million illegal immigrants.

In some cases, illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born children, who were by law U.S. citizens. The agents used a wide brush in their criteria for interrogating potential aliens. They adopted the practice of stopping "Mexican-looking" citizens on the street and asking for identification. This practice incited and angered many U.S. citizens who were of Mexican American descent. Opponents in both the United States and Mexico complained of "police-state" methods, and Operation Wetback was abandoned.
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