Mexico: the next crisis

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Terror and a grim warning about future instability struck our NAFTA partner, Mexico, on the day Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.

There was no press attention in Canada, and hardly any in the U.S., about the crash during rush hour in downtown Mexico City of a Lear jet carrying the second-highest official in the Mexican government, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño, along with key drug interdiction officials. Thirteen other people died in the plane, and on the ground, and 40 were injured.


Another passenger was former Assistant Attorney-General José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos who had a multi-million dollar price put on his head by the cartels because of his work against the drug trade during the Administration of Vicente Fox.

It appears to be a message that the drug cartels will stop at nothing as they continue to corrupt and ruin the country as they did in Colombia...

Mexico's drug war
In the past year, Mexico’s drug-related murder rate became four times’ higher than the casualty rate in Iraq among Americans. Some 4,000 people have been killed and the all-out war waged by Sr. Mourino, 37, resulted in assassinations of police chiefs, mayors and soldiers.

Clearly, this has grave implications for all NAFTA partners, notably the United States which will see increased drug trafficking and illegal immigration as Mexico starts a possible descent into a kleptocracy...

[we'll have to help - right after we secure our borders]

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