MexicoBlog Editorial: Debunking Drug War “Spillover”
An article published this week in the New York Times, “Money-Laundering Case Speaks to Border Fears,” originally published in the Texas Tribune, got us thinking about the hot topic of border “spillover.” The article provides an excellent description of a money-laundering scheme. But it begins with this sentence, “… when federal agents raided the stately [...]
Ciudad Juarez protesters released, will press charges against police for brutality (VIDEOS)
Last week, we spent most of the day receiving and passing along information about the arrest of some 29 (some media say 30) protesters who were beaten and arrested in Ciudad Juarez. Many networks of human rights defenders joined in to demand the release of the protesters, including El Paso groups and organizations from both [...]
Reflections on the International Drug Policy Reform Conference
MexicoBlog Report: “And everyone in-between:” Reflections on the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 3-5, 2011 People: white people, black people, brown people, Asian people, young people, old people and in-between people. The refrain of Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, in his opening-day speech, was “We are people [...]
AFRICA 3: Narcotics and dependent capitalism
The most significant challenge of Africa in the next few decades will be to transform itself from a largely informal and semi-legal “dependent outward-oriented” economy to a legitimate inward-looking one that is integrated intra-continentally under a model that is comparable to that of the EU and develops more equitable terms of trade with developed countries. [...]
The cockamamie Iran-Mexico terrorist plot
On Wednesday, Oct. 12 the New York Times, USA Today and other papers ran front-page stories about the discovery of a plot by Iranians allegedly associated with the Quds Revolutionary Forces of the government to murder the Saudi ambassador in Washington D.C. by hiring the Mexican drug cartel, the Zetas, to do the job. In [...]
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