RSSOnce Again, 3rd- World Mexico Fails the Democracy Test
John Lillipop | June 30, 2010
By John W. Lillpop
Mexican President Felipe Calderon needs to get his priorities straight, and in a hurry.
This is so because while the muddled Mexican was lecturing the American Congress about democracy and the rule of law in Arizona, his beloved Mexico continued to fall further into the grips of drug cartels, corruption, and violence.
An inconvenient truth looms for the addled Calderon: Mexico has lost the war to drug cartels, corruption, and violence, and, as a result, this pathetic nation is incapable of functioning as Democracy.
Get it, Felipe? The game is over. Mexico is on a par with Pakistan, or Afghanistan.
Another failed state, but this one right next door to the most sophisticated and successful democratic nation in history. (At least it was until November, 2008, that is.)
The bitter truth is that Democracy is no longer possible in Mexico. That fact was demonstrated in spades with the announcement that a leading gubernatorial candidate was assassinated in cold blood just days before an important election.
As reported at reference 1, in part:
“Last Friday, June 25, gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre raised both his arms to the sky in front of 15,000 cheering white-shirted supporters in a baseball stadium minutes from the Rio Grande. After he promised security in his violence-ridden border state of Tamaulipas, the crowd erupted to his campaign anthem, sung to the catchy tune of the smash hit "I Gotta Feeling" by U.S. pop band Black Eyed Peas.
They had reason for celebration. Opinion polls all concurred that the mustachioed physician would win the July 4 election by a landslide of more than 30 points. But on Monday, as Torre left the state capital to conclude his campaign, assailants showered his convoy with gunfire from automatic rifles and heavy-caliber weapons, killing him instantly. Army commanders said the attack bore all the signs of the Zetas, a paramilitary drug gang that was born in the state.
Mexico's highest-profile political assassination since the 1994 murder of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was a blow not only to Torre's supporters but to the nation's entire ailing democracy.
On July 4, voters will choose governors in 12 of 31 states in a "Super Sunday" of local elections. The ballots come almost exactly a decade after the nation voted to end 71 years of one-party rule. But rather than showcasing the success of multiparty democracy, the campaigns have highlighted its hazards. Races have been dampened by arrests of candidates on racketeering charges, leaked tapes of organized vote buying and a succession of violent attacks.
After the Torre killing, some politicians asked for half of the races to be suspended. "This is extremely worrying," says political scientist Maria Eugenia Valdes. "If there is fear and violence, there is no freedom. And if there is no freedom, we cannot have fair elections.”
In light of the truth about Mexico, the burning question of the day is: Why are President Obama and the Democrats wasting time and energy in an effort to legalize 12-38 million invading criminals from Mexico, rather than working to secure our borders and protect American citizens from the violence and mayhem that runs rampant in that failed state?
Why has President Obama not sent tens of thousands of troops to the border to keep the decay that is destroying Mexico from spreading north?
1- http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100630/wl_time/08599200051100
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I think Mr.Lillpop realy does not know what is talking about, I am an American living in Mexico, and feeling very safe in this country, the problem that Mexico is faciong it a problem the the US started, because the law alows them to smoke inhale and inject drugs in to the bodies, if the US cracks down on drug users and does not allow arms to be sold to the cartels you will be telling another story, most of the Mexican inmigrants that are in the US are hard working people, and wonderful people and if you consider them criminals, What are you? an angel?
The US has been a country of inmigrants so lets keep on and help this wonderful country that probably you dont even know
My opinion Michael is that you are the person that doesn’t know what you are talking about. As a Mexican immigrant (and a legal one at that) I find your disdain for America insufferable and your white washing of Mexico’s problems typical of people with an agenda on the left and hightly anti-America.
The U.S. has not caused any of Mexico’s problems. Mexico’s problems caused by the Mexican people who have allowed themselves to be turned into a Marxist state with little and no respect for human rights of its people. The nation is awash in natural resources and beauty but go away from the resorts and the people live in misery because the government has squandered those that have been accessed and does not have the wherewithal to tap new ones.
As a legal Mexican immigrant I can also speak to the “hard working” aspect of Mexican immigrants. Those that come here legally are certainly so. But every time I run across an illegal Mexican (and I report them every chance I get) I find them slothful and not understanding of hard work coming from a culture that really has poor work ethic in many regions.
Mr. Lillipop may not be an angel but that is besides the point. You cannot deflect the truth by attacking the messenger. The U.S. is a country of immigrants but laws must be followed otherwise America will become as dysfunctional as Mexico.