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What Exactly Does Mexico Do With The Money We Send Them Each Year

There was a story the other day about the discovery of 72 bodies in a killing house in Tamaulipas, Reynosa, Mexico, just across the border from McAllen, TX following the escape of a prisoner held there who reported the crimes and the location. The prisoners reason for being tortured in the killing house; he, like the others refused to work in the drug trafficking trade for the “cartel”.

The nationalities of those among the 72 dead [58 men and 14 women], so far, are:

Honduran

El Salvadorian

Brazilian

and Equadorian

“A survivor told authorities that he and his fellow U.S.-bound migrants were kidnapped and told they would either have to pay a ransom or work as drug couriers and hit men, according to the Reforma newspaper. Authorities suspect the Zetas drug gang was behind the massacre.”

Of course, no one would say what most Mexicans know: that the most likely source is the Mexican Army and/or the Mexican Federal police agencies that tortured these “migrants” to the United States in an attempt to force their cooperation. Michelle Malkin has a pithy article on the topic of Mexican justice and how it works on illegal aliens entering Mexican territory that seems to fit hand and glove with what happened here.
Days after discovering the kidnapped, tortured, and executed 72 poor souls and the bodies of raped women, in the same area, “allegedly resulting from a drug war between the Gulf and Zetas “cartels”, a report mentions that 3 hand grenades were used to kill 3 more people and to wound 9 others near a bar. All of this occurs as the United States and several South American nations are engaged in a bigger “War on Drugs“

These are tragic stories, but they are also not uncommon; nor have they been uncommon for decades. What they have been are unreported by news agencies in Mexico and American news agencies along the United States border.

If you go to sites such as “YouTube” and search on Ciudad, Juarez, or Nuevo Laredo, you will find many reports of the disgusting conditions good people are forced to live. You will also find most of the facts that surround how these conditions came to be, what perpetuates them, and what fuels the rising tide in inhumanity, you will find to the detriment of the United States Press Corps that most stories come from European news agencies and Al-Jazeera. Why is this the case? Is the need for more supporters for the left and workers for the right worth the price these people pay to get here? How is it that blood is not dripping from their collective conscience along with the guilt of knowing what they’ve contributed to the pain of these people through their own dishonesty and ambivalence?

Here is a passage the fits with the time from a book I’ve been telling you about for months:

I’m using a “Nook”; so, I’m not certain that the page reference will match up with a printed book, but beginning on “page 199, the author, Charles Bowden, in his book, “Murder City”, writes:

“It is possible to see his imprisonment as simply the normal by-product of bureaucratic blindness and indifference. But I don’t think that is true. No Mexican reporter has ever been granted political asylum, because if the U.S. government honestly faced facts, it would have to admit that Mexico is not a society that respects human rights. Just as the United States would be hard pressed, if it faced facts, to explain to its own citizens how it can justify giving the Mexican Army $1.4 billion under Plan Merida, a piece of black humor that is supposed to fight a war on drugs. But, then, the American press is the chorus in this comedy, since it continues to report that the Mexican army is in a war to the death with the drug cartels. There are two errors in these accounts. One is simple: The war in Mexico is for drugs and the enormous money to be made by supplying American habits, a torrent of cash that the army, the police, the government, and the cartels all lust for. Second, the Mexican Army is a government-financed criminal organization, a fact most Mexicans learn as children.”

If you look objectively at the facts, you will find a lot of truth in these particular comments by Mr. Bowden. The most obvious fact in support of his comments is that although there is a “cartel war” going on, very few of the dead are actual cartel members. Some of the dead are members of the Mexican army and police force, but they are few and far between the average victim.

Some have been found to be honest men trying to do their jobs; others have been found to be corrupt men who died because they somehow found disfavor among the hidden, ruling class of this drug enterprise that is so in love with rape, torture, and the most disgusting means of murder even on innocents. Most of the victims aren’t found until months or years later, and when they are found, there are brief stories in papers on both sides of the borders that never contain the names of the victims and that never contain statements from witnesses that can be identified or who can actually provide details. Those who dare to get their names associated with these killings are generally executed in the most barbaric form and left on the streets as a message to citizens everywhere.
In yet another, earlier section of his book:

When the reporter crossed the border, he imagined that the U.S. government would take him to some safe house, perhaps guard him and protect him. He did not expect jail. Now he feels impotent. He is angry at the United States because they criticize other nations for human rights abuses, and when he flees for his life and enters the U.S. legally seeking asylum they treat him like a criminal. He has nightmares of being deported. And he is desolate because he cannot learn anything about his teenage son. He remembers those moments he loved: making his son’s breakfast, washing his son’s clothes; now, he can do nothing for him. Emilio cries a lot.

Emilio gets paid either $1.00 per day for labor during his incarceration, or one apple. His pay is far less than those who’ve entered the country illegally and who are under minimal threat of deportation. Illegal immigrants have become the darlings of the political elite of both parties. The U.S. has been dragging its feet for decades mocking citizens with a half-hearted attempt to build a fence or appropriately man the border while the Department of Justice connives for ways to ignore enforcement and security needs.

The party in power now, the Democrats, under the leadership of President Obama, has decided to subject the United States to the scrutiny of the United Nations by reporting itself to the U.N. for their judgment on U.S. human rights violations.

This is a story about violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico dated March 2010 by AlJazeera of all sources:

Here is a report filed in 2003 on “factory girls” and the only thing that has changed is that the violence has become more regular, more barbaric, and more accepted:

The record of the United States government on the war on drugs and control of our southern border is abysmal. The evidence is that people are spilling over the border in droves at an unrelenting pace. They are doing so for more than just jobs. Many are doing so to survive the kidnapping, rape, torture, and death being dealt out daily by the Mexican army, the Mexican federal police, the Mexican local police and the various cartels who are all competing for drug money and the power such wealth brings.

The Mexican government has been totally and deliberately ineffective in investigating these mass killings. They rarely identify the dead, let alone their killers. Daytime killings occur within feet of police stations or Army squads, and yet, on most occasions, by the time the “authorities” arrive, the killers are long gone, unseen, unidentified and un-pursued.

Periodically a “confessed” criminal escapes to relate how the confession was coerced by torture at the hands of the Mexican authorities. Yet; Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats give President Calderon permission to speak before both Houses of Congress and a standing ovation of U.S. “failures” to deal humanely with “illegal” immigrants? How did the majority of our population fall down the rabbit hole and end up at the mercy of the Queen of Hearts and her evil Red Knight, Harry Reid? How long will we accept that the King of Hearts, President Obama, is just an inexperienced dolt being pushed into bad places by those who rule the twin houses of evil? If it were only a movie, we’d at least have the fabulous acting talent of Johnny Depp to admire as we boil in our home made stew.

The truth is that some Mexicans come here seeking jobs and a better life. The truth is also that many more are forced here by those in power directing the drug trade and those in power are encouraged by America’s insatiable hunger for a drug that dulls their minds, their conscience, their pathetic tears and their failures.

The war on drugs has done nothing to lower the price of drugs or their availability, but is has gone a long way to financing corruption on both sides of the border at the expense of thousands of lives belonging to men, women and children; including infants. So to those of you who indulge in drug use or participate in trafficking, this legacy of pain, dehumanization and death is your contribution to humanity.

If we want to win the so called war on drugs, we need to stop giving money to South American countries to buy weapons, to bribe public officials and to convert military and police authorities into sicarios or assassins. We need to use that money for better methods of threat detection and intervention and to return to the private markets for job creation and investment.

To end the war on drugs, the United States must take its head out of its blind and overly righteous ass and make them legal for purchase and use by adults. Those who choose to indulge in them should have to live with the consequences of their choices just as alcoholics (to a limited degree) are expected to do. My personal opinion is that when people choose to indulge in a product that has known addictive properties; then, they should be held fully accountable for their action while under the rapture/influence of such products. Prohibition proved that such use cannot be stopped, but accountability may have a sobering effect on many before they indulge or get too deep into abusive usage.

When one considers the destruction and death driven by those engaged as sellers or users in the drug trade, whatever consequence the user suffers is small in comparison. we can always impose life in prison to anyone caught selling to minors and we can force minors into extended treatment programs to get clean again if necessary. Sending billions to merchants of death to help us minimize or end the death caused by the drug trade is truly idiotic and should mark clearly candidates for office who do not deserve your vote.