Now we're reading about this.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die.
The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico's acting federal police chief.
Mexico has battled for years to clean up its security forces and win them the public's respect. But Mexicans generally assume police and even soldiers are corrupt until proven otherwise, and the honest ones lack resources, training and the assurance that their colleagues are watching their backs. Here, the taboo on cop-killing familiar to Americans seems hardly to apply.
Police who take on the cartels feel isolated and vulnerable when they become targets, as did 22 commanders in Ciudad Juarez when drug traffickers named them on a handwritten death list left at a monument to fallen police this year. It was addressed to "those who still don't believe" in the power of the cartels.
Ugh. It's as if the Drug Lords are becoming the Mexican Taliban or something like that.
Clearly, we must oppose any move towards a North American Union. Canada and America don't need nor want Mexico's problems, don't want to become responsible for them. Mexico must take care of her own problems. And the Mexican government must stop encouraging Mexican citizens to illegally migrate northwards, as if the state has given up on herself and her own people.
Clearly, things are even worse in Mexico than in the rest of North America. Much worse, it would seem!
And it only seems to be getting worse.
