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Pubdate: Fri, 27 Mar 2009

Source: Daily Lobo (U of NM, Edu, NM)

Copyright: 2009 Daily Lobo

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THE DECEIT OF OBAMA'S DRUG WAR

 

There has not been love lost between Mexico and the United States

since the U.S. annexed what was half of Mexico's territory in 1848.

Since then, there has been a national psychology that instinctively

distrusts any offers of help from Gringoland. This has become more and

more apparent with the Obama administration's new plans to militarize

the border between these two neighbors.

 

The Merida Initiative, which will give money and training to Mexican

police, signals that the U.S. is willing to spend good money to make

sure President Felipe Calderon is successful in his "war on drugs."

Since the passage of the Merida Initiative, Calderon has been

emboldened to the point of declaring martial law in the border town of

Juarez, Chihuahua, which sits across the Rio Grande from El Paso,

Texas. In reality, the U.S. is spending money to monopolize the drug

trade by force and Calderon is the dutiful pawn.

 

Back in November, Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the Drug

Enforcement Agency from his country.

 

Although this story was not picked up by the mainstream media, many

analysts were left scratching their heads.

 

Why would the president kick out an agency whose very existence is

dedicated to wiping away the scourge of drugs?

 

Morales had this to say: "The worst thing is, it did not fight drug

trafficking; it encouraged it." He also offered then President-elect

Obama evidence "to prove the illegality, abuse and arrogance of the

DEA in Bolivia." And in a final salvo, Morales said that the so-called

"war on drugs" was responsible for "bribed police officers, violated

human rights, covered-up murders, destroyed bridges and roads."

 

Now returning to Mexico, what parallels can be drawn?

 

As in pre-Morales Bolivia, there is a supposed threat to our national

security that emanates from vicious drug cartels that are hell-bent on

sending their drugs into our communities. This is false.

 

The most vicious drug cartel in this country and south of the border

resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Given the turbulent past between

Mexico and the U.S., it is unwise for Uncle Sam to order his puppet

Calderon to force the Mexican people to accept the Obama cartel's

demands at the barrel of a gun.

 

The deceit and hypocrisy behind the administration's actions in regard

to Mexico can only be described as breathtaking. Why would the U.S.

government believe that the Mexican nation would accept her offers of

help? The fact of the matter is that so long as the U.S. continues to

build up a military presence in Mexico and along the border, there

exists the real possibility of another Mexican-American War.

 

Imagine that you are a poor Mexican living in a Juarez

barrio.

 

There are no jobs or legal ways to feed your family.

 

And with the U.S. economy in the gutter, the notion of finding work in

El Paso has also vanished. With a hungry family to feed, what options

are left? You are offered a job trafficking drugs for a local dealer.

 

This is not an honorable way to make money, but it is the only

recourse left for making money to feed your family.

 

One day the Mexican military, with Uncle Sam's blessing of course,

shows up and starts arresting, beating, murdering and torturing your

co-workers. And to top it all off, the military is itself trafficking

drugs to the gringos.

 

How would that make you feel?

 

The story just told is but a microcosm of what the entire Mexican

nation is being asked to endure with a smile.

 

No sane or just person would ever accept this sort of hypocritical

slavery.

 

Yet the Obama administration is now sending its dope pushers to Mexico

with the goal of selling the Mexican nation on the idea of slavery.

 

Nobody takes kindly to having someone steal his or her food. This is a

universal truth.

 

It does not matter if you're American, Mexican, brown or

white.

 

The Obama administration is starting a war that it will lose badly.

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