Comments on: Literature on Mexico’s Drug War You Can Read, Sort Of

By: kopkejaime

kopkejaime — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:42:24 +0000

You cover a certain amount of interesting articles and it seems like a pretty good little rag, topics are controversial,I got a look at this due to an article on “ANSWERS” from Yahoo. THe Mecican thing is classic abuse of National borders…
Used to enjoy partying when I was a kid but after looking at all the death just for smuggling, Reefer isn’t even worth the high anymore when you think about all the young kids that died so it is undetected by government officals, If I wanted to play roulette I would get a six shot revolver, when I was playing was in the late sixties and seventys. Some of the movies cut trying to portray the aspects of the reality seem to fall short of the truth to the American public with lack of impact, as if it were propagated as opposed to understated.
Personally if I were tryingto relax I don’t need the heat of potential homicide barking up my ass. Makes you wonder if the government shouldn’t leagalize it(reefer) just for monitoring and the revenue angle, might help cut down on the contraban murdering that is taking out premisquous kids. That in itself is worth a form of boycot. It would take some brainstorming but…

By: russiandyev

russiandyev — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:39:38 +0000

I am looking forward to the “W” film review if the drugs are not the only thing that may interest eXile in literature and films. I’m sure it’s worth discussing.

By: Mycos

Mycos — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:08:58 +0000

Of the LE defenders I see one with remarkable insight into the conservative fear of ambiguity.
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~hannahk/conservatism.html It’s this one affect that causes them to see the world in simplified, black and white terms. It’s where phrases like “the law is the law” and “my country, right or wrong” relieve such people of the responsibility to think things through. This is also the seed from which the “Nuremburg Defence” arose, and from which prohibition now continues. LEOs can avoid taking any responsibility for their actions by telling themselves they are “merely doing their job”.

The last poster sees only the mansion of the dealer, not the mansions belonging to the landowners for whom the politicians sat in their mansions drafting laws that keep everyone else so poor that the only way they can afford the shirt on their back is through drug trafficking. I guess if he had his way, these kids wouldn’t even have that much. Yet he blames drugs for how little they have, and not the real reason…conservatives like him who feel compelled to justify inequality. (see above link)
What? Are we to believe the poor were better off before prohibition opened up a trillion dollar US market for something they have been quietly doing for centuries? If all that money were still sitting back in the US, how does that help the people down there?
Any way you look at it, it’s a vast redistribution of money/wealth that would have otherwise remained back in the US.

By: L. Macarius

L. Macarius — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:26:45 +0000

“They are also one of the few industries in the developing sectors of the earth that really do redistribute income”

Hahahhaha! The lies people tell to simply ease up the guilt. Honeslty, you’ve never actually seen how these drug barons live do you? Pretty close to where I grew up in Brazil, this Lebanese drug dealer had a house with collums made from Carrara’s Marble (yes, he imported them from Italy) with details painted in gold.

While the kids seeling drugs in the favelas barely have clothes, or any medical assistance.

Wealth distribution my ass…

By: paul

paul — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:48:03 +0000

A kilo of coke costs $200,000 in the US? I regret to inform you that in WA and FL the going rate for a kilo of coke is around $6-7,000.

Not as dramatic as the police would like folks to believe.

By: mx?

mx? — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:00:25 +0000

ooh and jason where did you live?
because if you didnt live in any of the disputed “plazas” then the drug war could hve passed unnoticed by you.
In my city we had shootouts between narcos vs cops, narcos vs federales, narcos vs soldiers, narcos vs cops/federales/soldiers, narcos vs narcos, executions (hits), decapitations, people getting disolved in acid or burnt in gasoline-filled trash cans, narco messages (written threats between narcos, and against corrupt politicians and police commanders.
i remember they even threw people from low-flying cessnas in sinaloa.

lovely country, you should visit the beaches(:

By: mx?

mx? — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:52:20 +0000

I agree with you jason, although i do have friends and people i knew who have been..err..”affected” by the drug war.
the US Gov. always issues those silly “reports” when they want to pressure a country, and the result is like bad publiciy for the mexican beaches.
They end up affecting tourism, which looses money for the Gov so they end up giving in to the americans pressure.
aaaah goddamn gringos we just loooove’em.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:37:52 +0000

I lived mexico recently for a few months. The “Drug war” hype is mainly american, in my experience. The problems are mainly thought to effect the upper class/government types. The average mexican (most of which do not take “hard drugs”) isn’t effected.

By: mx?

mx? — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:23:27 +0000

in mexico theres a joke about him, more like a funny phrase, when they interviewed him about all that money ( which probably was the goverments or the sinala cartel)
“coopelas o cuello” it was like a play on words, like the “flied lice plick” phrase from lethal weapon.
OH and about him, probably paid off a lot of people and has gone low-profile.
He was just a little link in the supply chain

By: mitchell

mitchell — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:38:45 +0000

What’s up with Zhenli Ye Gon these days?