Mexico
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:08 pm
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Huh?protagonist wrote:Yes, that's why the U.S has been pouring troops into Mexico, to prevent it from collapsing.
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Re: Mexico
Postby John on Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:12 pm
protagonist wrote:Yes, that's why the U.S has been pouring troops into Mexico, to prevent it from collapsing.
Huh?
John
I think he means the Mexican Army has been sending troops.The Mexican army has sent an estimated 2,000 troops to Juárez as part of a rotation even as the death toll surpassed 35 so far this year.
Two men were killed Tuesday evening, shot multiple times in separate attacks in which nearly 70 rounds were fired.
This is an incredibly important story, with huge potential impact.
FWIW, I think Mexico is the most likely nation-state to collapse in '09. As has been made abundantly clear, the state is rapidly losing their monopoly on violence (I suspect that it is already lost and the people are quite aware of this), their oil production is collapsing far faster than any other nation, there is no nationwide ideology that will continue to bind them together, and they are in a 5th turning. When combined with the quickening worldwide economic collapse, Mexico is in for one hell of a disaster.John wrote:This is an incredibly important story, with huge potential impact.
I just wish I had an extra few hours to do an article on it.
John
And don't forget the real hostility between indigenous people (AztecMatt1989 wrote: > FWIW, I think Mexico is the most likely nation-state to collapse
> in '09. As has been made abundantly clear, the state is
> rapidly losing their monopoly on violence (I suspect that it is
> already lost and the people are quite aware of this), their oil
> production is collapsing far faster than any other nation, there
> is no nationwide ideology that will continue to bind them
> together, and they are in a 5th turning. When combined with the
> quickening worldwide economic collapse, Mexico is in for one hell
> of a disaster.
Irrespective of "peak oil" the decline of Mexican oil from the Cantrell Field is going to starve the government of revenue needed to have any hope of stabilizing things.The Mexican army and heavily armed federal police with a helicopter flying overhead raided a drug warehouse Thursday morning in Juárez even as killings are surging beyond the extraordinary levels of last year.
If it isn't a war zone, it would be hard to tell by the body count, which has reached 207 in the Juárez area this year.
In the first five days of February, 54 people were slain, surpassing the 37 homicides in all of February last year.
The raid by forces with Joint Operation Chihuahua led to the seizure of nearly 2 tons of marijuana hidden in plastic containers apparently ready to be transported to the United States, said Enrique Torres, spokesman for the federal anti-crime operation.
An estimated 100
federal agents and soldiers with their faces masked took part in the unusually strong show of force as they rushed into the same warehouse on Mexico street where four men were shot to death Tuesday. No arrests were reported.