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Title: Mexico drug crime out of control says president
Source: Reuters via Raw Story
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle ... ntNewsHome_C1_%255bFeed%255d-1
Published: Jan 21, 2007
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2007-01-21 11:40:31 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 236
Comments: 8

Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:19 AM ET

MADRID (Reuters) - Organized crime is running out of control in Mexico, Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the Spanish newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Sunday.

"Organized crime is getting out of control and is causing serious worries in some regions of the country, like Michoacan," Calderon said. "Murder rates were exceeding those of Colombia at one point."

On Friday Mexico extradited four drug kingpins to the United States, striking a blow against warring cartels that killed 2,000 people last year and have turned large areas into lawless badlands.

President Calderon took office in December and has sent troops and elite police units to tackle drug gangs and halt a surge in violence as rival cartels fight over smuggling routes and drug fields.

Killings linked to drug trafficking in the province of Michoacan have fallen nearly 70 percent from appallingly high figures last month, he said, but he told the newspaper there was a lot more work to do.

Continued collaboration with the United States to fight drug crime was essential, he said.

"The United States, unfortunately, is the biggest consumer of drugs in the world. That fosters this extreme drug-trafficking phenomenon in Mexico," he said.

"It's a very simple equation -- you can't get a significant reduction in drug supply if there's not a significant reduction in demand."

On a surge in the price of staple tortillas, Calderon said he would increase imports in order to discourage speculation and hoarding by traders.

"The complexity of this situation goes far beyond what the Mexican government can do, and I dare say, any government," he said. "Corn has moved from $81 a ton, to nearly $160 in a couple of months.

"We will be severe, firm and relentless in cases of speculative abuse," he said.

The recent price increases in the flat corn bread, driven by soaring U.S. demand for ethanol fuel made from corn, have pushed up inflation and hurt millions of Mexican households that serve tortillas with nearly every meal.

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#1. To: Zipporah, ladybug, lodwick, all (#0)

Continued collaboration with the United States to fight drug crime was essential, he said.

Read, North American Union.

Then; On a surge in the price of staple tortillas, Calderon said he would increase imports in order to discourage speculation and hoarding by traders.

Read; more GMO corn from the factory farms in the US that the rest of the world refuses to buy, and, thus, the destruction of still more of the small family farms that dominate Mèxico.

richard9151  posted on  2007-01-21   14:11:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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the destruction of still more of the small family farms that dominate Mèxico.

Not to mention that some of the oldest and rarest varieties of corn that is cultivated on these farms will be destroyed by cross pollination with this GMO corn.

ladybug  posted on  2007-01-21   14:37:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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oldest and rarest varieties of corn that is cultivated on these farms

Good catch; corn that is actually food, as opposed to the swollen-up varities that are grown in the US. The only varieties of corn used in the US now are so full of glucose that they are more akin to sugar cane than they are to real, nutricious corn.

richard9151  posted on  2007-01-21   15:31:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: richard9151, ladybug, all (#3)

Question - shouldn't the higher commodity prices encourage more planting in Mexico, and other places around the world?

It's estimated that here we will need to plant 12 million new acres of corn this year, at 148bu/ac average harvest, to take care of the demand - and this is #2 yellow corn - not the corn that we consume.

Lod  posted on  2007-01-21   15:52:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: lodwick (#5)

shouldn't the higher commodity prices encourage more planting in Mexico,

Can not be done in most other places; the main reason that corn is used in factory farming is that is lends itself to massive cultvation, which means massive machines and as little hand work as possible. The same is true of wheat, which is also why it is so widely used and abused.

The average farm in Mèxico is not much more than 10-20 acres. Some going up to 30-35; enough for a poor family to subsist on, but hardly enough to turn one of the giant farm tractors from the US around on!

And when the government in Mèxico is in coots with the US government in forcing the people off of the land, well, cheap corn and filthy pork is just the ticket needed to break the poorest of the poor, and, force them into the cities where they can learn to work for next to nothing for the international corporations.

I pay about $18 a day for help here, but in Mexicalli, the workers in the few factories still open work for as little as $8 a day; and food is the same price here as in the states, so, you get the picture, I am sure.

richard9151  posted on  2007-01-21   16:00:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#8. To: richard9151, ladybug, all (#6)

Thanks for the information and thoughts, guys.

Depressing stuff.

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