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US: Mexico A Huge Security Risk - Page 7

Mexico is beating up itself and turning into a rogue state controlled by drug king pins. Even the muscle behind thee rug lords are former US military trained commandoes. That's why they are so open and deadly with these attacks. Thing is too Mexico is a huge country with miles of unchartered territory good for hiding out. I don't know if the drug war is winnable really.

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I have heard a lot of people say that it is Mexico's fault they are in the situation they are in. However this is not entirely true. As the world market unfolds itself, forcing itself into poorer countries. Small businesses there and farmers also loose work. They can no longer produce goods to sell because the bigger corporations sell goods for so mutch cheaper. Then you have a large percentage of the country unable to pay their bills, that used to live honest hard working lives.

So then once the people are poor and desperate the corporations offer them jobs that pay pennies and dump the waste from the factories in their back yards. The waste causes many diseases but there are no decent hospitals, infant deaths rise. The list goes on and on but the system (and it is a well thought out system) is set up to make these countries slaves to the corporations and be in so mutch debt they can never pay their way out.

Yes Mexico is a threat to the USA, but don't kid yourselves. We are next on the list, just because we are living off of these poorer countries right now doesn't mean we won't soon end up just like them. We in the USA look at it like it is us vrs them. If we knew all the facts we would be looking at it like it is us and them vrs corruption. Look how far we have come in debt from corruption just in the last decade.

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China seems to be holding up to the force of world markets with quite a improvement to the lower class. Actually, China is thriving in this global market which has been forced on them. Their standard of living has improved by astronomical levels in the last 2 decades and let's not forget that it has one of the most corrupt governments on the planet. I can better accept the US is the drug user and Mexico is the poor drug supplier...it isn't their fault better than I can accept that corporations took my free will therefore I will succumb to criminality argument.

Study mexican culture and you will understand a large part of the problem with the country. The work ethic is far different from that of the US, Canadian or Asian worker. Time consideration and punctuality are not culturally important in Mexico.

In a MBA class, a instructor who was a VP from a Fortune 500 company was talking about NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). At the time of passage, many workers in the US were concerned all jobs would go to Mexico and Latin America. A few companies did set up factories quickly in Mexico. There is one common problem that all the companies (supplying very good paying jobs in Mexican standards) and that was retention rates. Monthly 20% turnover rates killed productivity and quality because as a employee got efficient at their job it was about time they decided to quit and go back home. Imagine getting a bonus to stay at your job on Friday. Imagine getting an additional bonus if you decided to make it to work the following Monday. These were the incentives that they tried to use to keep workers on the job and yet it still resulted in about a 20% turnover rate of the work force. These were good paying jobs! Jobs that the US workers were upset to have lost. I wont even get into the drug use at work and embezzlement issues that many companies have faced when relocating factories to Mexico.

Again, these are jobs US workers were upset to have lost and they cant keep anyone on the job.

When the debt becomes a big enough issue in the US, politicians will work on it and not a moment before because there are negative repercussions from the things that have to be done to fix the problem. Our debt was not corruptly generated as well. We voluntarily watched our leaders waste money in our name. We wont become like Mexico because of our work ethic. I used to think that Americans were lazy...it was what I was taught in school. I can tell you after having worked in Asia (who was supposed to have a better work ethic) that Americans are some of the most productive workers on the planet. They work had and play hard, but in a 8-9hr day...you wont get more work out of someone else.

I like what Calderon is doing in Mexico. I hope he lives long enough to see it through like the Columbians did with their drug cartels. If they fix this problem and improve on the corruption, Mexico can thrive. They have the work force necessary. They have a NAFTA agreement with the US. They also have a border and are the closest trading partner with the US (outside of Canada). Until they get control of their cities and wipe out the drug cartels, they are a threat to US security. We actually have the mayor of a town that the Mexican army is put out of business living in El Paso. They want him dead and he is basically living in El Paso.

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I have to agree that mexico is a big threat to the US still because of the continued unrest in mexico. Until people can resolve the issues that are happening in Mexico it will always be a big threat.

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Paramilitaries Kill Two Human Rights Activists in Oaxaca

In Mexico, two human rights activists have been shot dead in the state of Oaxaca. The victims have been identified as Beatriz Carino, director of the Mexican human rights group CACTUS, and Jyri Antero Jaakkola, a human rights observer from Finland. They were traveling as part of a convoy attempting to deliver aid to a town that's been targeted by paramilitary blockades since the 2006 uprising against governor Ulises Ruiz. Ref. Source 3

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Mexico's Drug War: A Rigged Fight?:

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman heads the Sinaloa cartel, which is engaged in a bloody turf battle with La Linea, or the Juarez cartel. But an NPR investigation has found that the two cartels aren't competing on a level playing field: Federal forces appear to be favoring the Sinaloans, Mexico's largest, oldest and most powerful drug cartel. Ref. Source 4

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To all this I would like to add, who knows what is going on with their neighbors next door. Who knows exactly what is going on with another city or county next to them really. Unless you live there and live that circumstance it is hard to say what is really going on. There is so much we never hear about. All I'm saying is we are basing our opinions on facts presented, but how many facts are there we don't know of.

Many Americans view Mexico as this dirty place that is a threat to American life. Yet what is American life, we are not even living "American" life. We point to their corruption but yet it runs rampant in our country. We point to their poverty and lack of jobs, yet we loose more jobs every day.

Security risk yes, yet there are many such problems running wild in our own country. I hope we don't forget that as we focus on them.

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Oliron check some states like UT and see the amount of Mexicans committing crimes, it's crazy. I don't hate Mexicans but let me tell you we have a HUGE database of Mexicans committing all sort of crimes in our land.