What is wrong with Mexico?

As somebody who grew up in Mexico let me say: yes. Soon the Mayan death god will ride across the world on an infected swine distributing drugs and earthquakes like candy.

Nah, actually earthquakes are common in Mexico city, as are diseases given the population density. As for the drug trade it mostly stems from its neighbor having the greediest appetite for drugs in the world while producing more weapons than they can keep track of.
 
Honestly, so far the swine flu just sounds like another overhyped "flu pandemic", just like the last few.

The drug warfare's been a pretty fuckup for years now, yeah...
 
Brother None said:
The drug warfare's been a pretty fuckup for years now, yeah...
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Yup, I grew up in Sinaloa (do a search for Sinaloa Cartels) and it was messed up, a friends dad used to be a pilot for drug dealers and he had all kinds of weapons stashed. Also a lot of metal gates had AK-47 holes and every kid knew which house was a drug dealer house (nice big ones). Rich kids had bodyguards and one guy I knew growing up was gunned down. That is why my cry is "legalize it, and stop using it in the meantime". People dont work hard on legalization because they can already get the drugs and everyone who is dying because of it is a country away. I particularly despise the drug users who are "anti-war" since they dont understand that drug money fuels most clandestine and some very public wars (see Afghanistan and poppy fields).
 
Cool. I'm half Chiapanecan.

And to answer KQX's question... it's been answered above. The drug wars aren't exactly new. Neither earthquakes. In fact, every year I go to visit my family, there is a small earthquake, ~2 to 5 on the R scale.

So yeah, it's basically this new flu thing. It's kind of weird it happens now, at the peak of the dry season. And a 'hot spot' has been located in Oaxaca, a state which is everything but flu-inducing.

Weird.
 
hell on the tourism business for Mexico, although to be fair, it seems most tourism destinations are getting hammered by the economic downturn.

As for the drug thing- it seems that this is a case of a lot of gangs fighting over a few entry points for drugs entering the US. Used to be that much of this business was controlled by one gang, but he went to jail and, in a way that reminds me of what happened to Alexander's empire after his death, his subordinates began to go to war over control. That's probably why the gang violence is so intense on the border.

But there's more to it than that. Maquiladoras - essentially low wage factories that have sprung up around the border. The pay is shit, but at least its a job. So it draws unemployed folks from Mexico and further south to the border towns. But there are not enough jobs and so you have high unemployment. Where you have high unemployment, high inequality and urbanization, you quickly get high crime.

Hey, its globalization at work!
 
lugaru said:
As for the drug trade it mostly stems from its neighbor having the greediest appetite for drugs in the world...
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Yeah, I completely agree with this. To my mind, the drug users here are culpable for funding the cartels in Mexico and South America, but no one wants to blame them. No one wants to make the connection that the money people spend to get high funds all kinds of really bad things. It's easier to blame government policy or some other nebulous entity. Which is not to say government policy has nothing to do with it - just that the users get zero blame here, when they should get most of it.
 
I hear the swine flu has shown an even LOWER mortality rate than the common flu, world-wide. Not to mention that the initial infection rate was completely overblown by hysteria and most of it seemed to have been panicky idiots suffering from colds.

H1N1 would have had the potential for a real pandemic, even more so than the bird flu (I hear it spread from birds to pigs prior to mutating?), but apparently it's just not as infectious as it would have to be.
 
The Drug Wars have been getting a little out of control. I've lived in AZ for the last 10 years and have been down to Mexico on numerous occasions. Most people I've talked to are in consensus that it's just too dangerous to risk going down there these days.

The swine flu is a joke...
 
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