Nobody cares how the reality of the war on drugs. This fact gets very uncomfortable to see very quickly. In the range of reactions from Mexico and fatalistic acceptance acquiescence to despair for "How do I make a buck off this thing?" Where are my pesos? I only had better shut up and not think too hard about it, it's much safer specified in this way. Explanations here in the United States begin to the left. "Compassionate care III Citizens control the Government. We can't just let them run wild. "delusions of the right wing that has always been the Suppression of whatever sort blog to blog any time, any reason FIR blog.
After 40 years of abject failure for the war on drugs, providing explanations and excuses grow increasingly prosaic, tired and ridiculous, and I could go on. On the right and the authoritarian authorities insist that any war fought by a US Government can never be lost or abandoned. You have to keep profile hands, nose and lungs, brain. Of course, ignoring the fact that all illegal profiling are widely available. And prices go down. And ignoring the wars in the world that we are about to lose. Or already essentially lost already. Left if something isn ' t work we can solve the problem with any government program. Sometimes it takes a little tinkering and more billions and a new agency would be to get it right! So it goes.
Charles Bowden weaves a tale of three strands through his book "Down By The River.
One is a very personal story of a family in El Paso who lost their son to "good," the golden boy ". Bruno. The one in a large family that everyone loves. He was shot in El Paso, an innocent victim of transnational crime, a car-jacking ... very rare at that time in the 1990 's hundreds of cars were stolen and driven in Juarez. But car-jacking wasn't necessary. Alarm systems were primitive or nonexistent. A late model car or truck might be hot wired in less than a minute. Or more probably something more sinister and premeditated occurred. The Government of Mexico is famous because, among other things, is almost total indifference to the plight of its citizens in legal trouble in foreign countries. The Carjacker and accused killer was a Mexican teenager penniless. Blog for whatever reason, this time Mexico jumps to the defence. Money pours. While Bruno 1950 was not related to crime or narcotics there was a connection. His brother Phil. (A) a senior officer in the GODDESS. Has been involved in hundreds of cases. At the end of agony and the quest for justice comes to nothing ... This is the experience of the people of Mexico Juarez and whole. A country where justice is a joke, and there is no hope of ever finding it. But revenge is another thing. Sometimes that can be found. Until the revenged come to take it back.
The other thread is the story of Mexicans: the narcos, the cops, the cops of narco. The cartel boss, subordinates, folks, policemen under covered, their world.
There are few heroes. Bowden itself might be one. He could dispute that. Perhaps some of the journalists and people who survive with some of their humanity are as close to the Heroes happen here find. As Bowden says at the end the drug war destroys everything. There are no winners.
The thread number three is the documentary. As gusts from an AR-15 He documented incident after incident cases that only has gone so high. The complicity of every Mexican President in drug sector of Mexico and United States. Case after case that was canceled by American Attorney General and the Justice Department higher-ups when it became too politically sensitive. You have specified are incorporated "new agencies and incorruptible and leader in Mexico to gain American support and money. All dog and pony show was always in the second. More and more laws and more prisons and more money.
All built on a culture of wilted and betrayals and lies. Leading to death, imprisonment, torture, ruined many lives and now eight years later, perhaps irreversible descent of Mexico in a police state Narco failed forever at war with itself. And the beat goes on and on.
There is of course the tale now familiar corset GODDESS of a drug courier, the call from the CIA and the issue of the courier and his product, because it is a "national security situation." DEA agents try not to reach conclusions, but obvious blog no matter what you say about them, they aren't dumb.
Down by the River
Bowden writes:
I'm drinking in my yard with a former DEA agent, has spent years in Mexico, surviving gun battles, have specified years of monitoring the huge flows of money spent more, night has fallen and sits in the shade sipping a beer, Sinaoloa. He likes to speak in these moments, but never want to these conversations go on record because I repeatedly explained, because "they" can't be beaten. And this he refers to "their" is the CIA.
Bowden has said himself he hand-held back on his opinion of respect for the family of 1950. The book is a revelation. Of course it has a little outdated because how horrible the situation as he paints only a decade ago, is many times worse today.
This kind of books can be evaluated in a train wreck ...It becomes impossible to look away despite and because of the carnage going on and so forth.
I give it 6 locomotives and a thousand cars careening off-track falling from the mountain to the village people not so innocent of two countries.
BuzzFlash interview on http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/03/int06008.html
Interview on Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/14/charles_bowden_murder_city_ciudad_jurez
