Comments on: Mexico's Dangerous Illegal Economy

[BOATLOUIE69]

Wrong Mrs Logan, I just spent 6 month in Mexico and it appear you didn't do your research that well. Drug problem yes, to the degree you paint it, no way. CBS has always been a very trusted news source. These kind of half way researched reports put me more in mind of Bill Oriley on FOX than Walter Cronkite on CBS. Please quit worrying about rating and go back to reporting the truth.

[legacyabq]

Posted by edblvgtbl2 at 8:11 AM

Ahh.. From poetry to prose, I see!

Nice! I like!

;-)

[johnb8888]

"Where would Mexico's "Illegal Economy" be without the USA's Illegal Consumption? Though both countries have massive dual economies, none produces more violence than that of the USA. You can feel safer in more Mexican communities than you will be in most US urban centers.
Posted by chusanroad


Actually the murder rate in Mexico is considerably higher than that in the US, despite Mexico's "strict" gun control.

[leopard_colony]

Thank you very, very, much. This was very well researched and written. Again, thank you. I have found a slip of the tongue by Secretary of State Clinton. She stated that machine guns (assault weapons), rocket launchers, and grenades are going south from the US. They can only have come from our military, as only our military are allowed to possess them. I suspect the attacks on legal gun ownership is to cover up the real source of military hardware going south, our military. Here is where Ms. Clinton was quoted: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/03/26/2009-03-26_secretary_of_state_hillary_clintons_call.html

[chusanroad]

Where would Mexico's "Illegal Economy" be without the USA's Illegal Consumption? Though both countries have massive dual economies, none produces more violence than that of the USA. You can feel safer in more Mexican communities than you will be in most US urban centers.

[johnb8888]

"The U.S. is responsible for over 90 percent of the traced firearms found in Mexico, but the vast majority of guns recovered in Mexico are not sent back to the U.S. to be traced because they are obviously made somewhere else. "


It's refreshing and informative to hear the truth for a change!

Despite the lying mantras being repeated by Hillary and Holder, and Mexico's rich elite, the United States is not the whipping boy here.

Mexico's billionaire elite with their one party system has tolerated massive corruption because it benefits from it.

And U.S. gun control politicians will tell any lie to promote their agenda.

The fact is: Mexican politicians are liars, and U.S. politicians are liars.

Haven't we had enough official lies to support failed policies?

[MaineiacinAK]

Thinking at all is a challenge for some people. They can't manage to open their mind any further, because they opened it so far their brain fell right out on the ground.

A fence won't do it by itself. You need to man the fence, "stimulus"... jobs for people. And then you need the Air Force, and the Army, with fighters and helicopters. Anybody flying in without clearance is ordered to turn around and return to where they are coming from. Anybody who doesn't turn around gets splashed.

We're either going to have borders, or we're not. It's frankly that simple. "Thinking outside of the box." on very simply issues makes them overly complicated and difficult.

Spit out your silver spoon and step outside of your gated community for a few seconds, outside of your small gold lined box.

I've worked in corrections, law enforcement, EMS, and am now a physical therapist. I've forgotten more about illegal aliens, drug smugglers and dealers, and criminals than you're ever going to know. I've also forgotten more about firearms than you'll ever know, speaking of fear, small boxes, and thinking.

Fear runs my life? Really? Who's more fearful, the guy who trusts his neighbor with the means to kill him, or the one who doesn't?

[skyk-2009]

Hey Maniac, they'll fly over or tunnel under your little fence. You're an idiot.
Posted by straightmate at 8:42 PM : Apr 3, 2009

LOL You have to be able to think outside a very small box, which this person obviously can't. Fear is all some in this nation know and fear motivates them to build fences and buy more guns.

[Phxfire]

Everyone arrested as a user should also be charged as accessories to murder, conspiracy, etc. If there were no market, there would be no cartels. Most laws covering violent acts hold ALL participants culpable. If you're in the room when the shots are fired, you are charged; if you accept illegal property or money, you are charged... Until its clear there is a consequence for actions by everyone involved and the market starts to dry up there will be no end.

[ramos1129]

As a retiree living in Mexico, I found the article about as far from the realities here as it could get. First, there was the assumption that all the drug money remains in Mexico which is simply not the case. The drugs are transported through Mexico from places like Colombia and it is illogical to believe that some if not almost all the money returns to the source of the drugs. Sure, some of the cartels buy the drugs and deal them in the U.S. and then keep the money in Mexico, but certainly not all or even enough to suggest a secondary economy exists. To fantacize that the cartels represent a secondary government is absurd. The future danger could be that the cartels will have enough money to form their own political party and buy enough votes from the poor and ignorant to gain some political clout but the current trend doesn't suggest that. I recently visited Tijuana that was extremely violent six months ago and found it tranquil and back to normal thanks to the presence of several thousand soldiers. I also visited Culiacan that was a cartel hotspot with daily killings and now it is peaceful and the people have returned to their normal lives. It appears that President Calderon is slowly winning this war but it would certainly help if the U.S. would give some satellite monitoring to locate the cartel hideouts.
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My company is working in Mexico. Bombardier Aircraft is building a plane factory there. Bell Helicopters has a large presense there.
The list is endless.

I do not deny that Mexico does have a huge drug cartel problem but it is nowhere as bad as Logan paints it.

Question: Where does Ms. Logan get her information from?