In a telephone press conference conducted as he returned from Mexico, Mullen said that the Pentagon was prepared to help the Mexican military employ the same tactics that US forces have applied in counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
What is deliberately obscured in all of these responses to the situation in Mexico, is that the decision of Calderon to pursue a militarized response to the longstanding and essentially socioeconomic problem of drug-trafficking, has everything to do with immense social tensions building up in the country as well as the political crisis of his own presidency, which a substantial portion of the population still sees as illegitimate following the disputed 2006 election.
Calderon’s deployment of the military serves as a means of social control and repression.
The sending out of the army has resulted in a growing number of denunciations of severe human rights violations
Hmmm. A war to support the rich corporate politicos of Mexico against the poor?