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The devil is in the details: the Merida Initiative1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the more popular criticisms I hear about the the Merida Initiative from conservatives (and ot … more »

Tags: Acteal massacre, Aerospace, Agriculture, Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business

Do we need the troops?1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: I wasn’t going to post this until tomorrow, but George Friedman’s usual bleak analysis f … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), AMLO, Automotive Industry, Border Issues, Colombia, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business

Horray!

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: PHOENIX—The arrest of a gun shop owner on Tuesday broke up a suspected firearms trafficking operat … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Informal economy

Sending in the cavalry...

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Protecting the citizens of Juarez and neighboring border communities from violent Texas gun and c … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Gringolandia, money-laundering

La-la-la-la-la!2 comments

richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Why is this still a new concept to us?: by Jim Cross/KTAR (Phoenix) Mexico’s attorney general … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Crime and Punishment, D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency), drugs, money-laundering

Going courting...

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Who rates a motorcade like this? Felipe Calderon? George W. Bush? Close, but no cigar … th … more »

Tags: ciudad de mexico, Courts, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Legal System, policía

War... what's it good for?3 comments

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghan … more »

Tags: drugs, cuba, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), military, Chile, military budget, Ecuador

"The shadowy bastard child of NAFTA"1 comment

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: “Grits For Breakfast“, which covers (and covers very well) what passes in Texas as … more »

Tags: Banking, Border Issues, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Gringolandia

Half measures?

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: The Mexican government has been complaining for years that the violence in the narcotics trade is a … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Gringolandia, Informal economy

Yankee ingenuity?

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: Rebecca Lopez, at Dallas TV station WFAA-TV8 reports a new twist on an old idea. DALLAS — Law enfo … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Informal economy

Drugs are not the answer... so what's the question?1 comment

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: In a front page story in the Houston Chronicle, Mexico City bureau reporter Dudley Althaus writes: … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Coahuila, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Gays, Gringolandia, GRUPERO, Matamoros

We want Taft! Human rights and border security in 19101 comment

richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: From Mexico Trucker: WASHINGTON – Pablo Rosario, a former U.S. Border Patrol Agent stationed in El … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Gringolandia, Homeland Security!, Human Rights, Informal economy, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution)

Plan Mexico details emerge

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: From Earthwatch: Washington - The United States on Tuesday unveiled a multi- billion dollar plan to … more »

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Border Issues, Courts, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Emigrant labor/remittances, Gringolandia, Legal System

Cui bono? "Plan Mexico"4 comments

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: Laura Carlson looks at “Plan Mexico” Both Mexican and U.S. officials have gone to great … more »

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Colombia, Crime and Punishment, D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency), drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers

"Plan Mexico" ... and "Plan Mex Files"1 comment

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: The Foreign Affairs Secretariat is keeping quiet about it, but it looks as if Bush is going to promi … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Crime and Punishment, D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency), drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, George W. Bush

Alpine, Oaxaca, the border and the Un-battle of Bagdad1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Alpine Thanks to those who’ve responded so far, I have SOME financial breathing room, I’ … more »

Tags: Benito Juarez, Border Issues, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Economy & Business, Emperor Maximiliano, Environment, Gringolandia, Human Rights

Dammit! We are NOT a war zone!2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: A few cohetes are going off (to the delight of my 3-year old neighbor Tristan) in a post-fourth of J … more »

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Big Bend, Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, iraq

Men in Black1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Full article at mexidata.info Nancy Conroy is the Publisher of northern Baja California’s biweekl … more »

Tags: Baja California, Border Issues, Death Squads, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Human Rights, military, provincia, Terrorism

Lawyers, guns and money... take two1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Bill Weinberg in WW4 Report: The government of Mexican President Felipe Calderón has issued a forma … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Política mexicana, drugs, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, policía, Legal System, Human Rights, Border Issues


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