El Show Es Over
Jul 13th, 2009 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
The Mexican Senate has put forward a measure that will eliminate the Army’s roving of Juárez’s streets in light of a nasty spat of rights abuses in that poor city at the hands of soldiers.
Plenty of good and bad here to consider. First of all, what choice did Mexico have? Juárez is the country’s largest border city, rendered utterly feral by the exhaustive war between Vicente Carrillo and Joaquín Guzmán Loéra. That conflict has gone on since 2007 and homicide stats from this summer show that there’s been no relinquishing of territory by either side. Juárez had an average of seven murders a day in June alone. Clearly an intervention was needed.
But as early as last fall, human rights organizations complained of at least ten innocent civilians shot and killed by Army units. One hundred more reported being tortured, blindfolded, suffocated with bags of ice, electrocuted, soaked with water and frozen in meatlockers; all in an insatiable quest for information.
The military’s presence has always been unconstitutional; under Mexican law, the Army can only be called up in times of natural disaster or war. Technically, very technically, Carrillo’s and Guzmán’s desmadre doesn’t count as war because A) They’re both Mexican and B) it wasn’t declared on the sovereign state, only between the capos.
Myself, I’ve never been impressed with the Army’s operations within the cities. Lots of menacing stoics sitting on Humvees, thirty-cals on rotating turrets, body armor and flak helmets. I’ve kept a wary eye on the military from Tijuana to Culiacán to Juárez and Nuevo Laredo and other than surprise search warrants and the occasional gunbattle, I’ve never seen them do much more than drive round and round and round, ad nauseum.
But if the military’s pulling back in Juárez, restructuring itself to work intel instead of patrol, it’s leading to a few interesting points to ponder. Will the city be any safer without the quasi-martial law implemented by their presence? And whose interests are at stake here? El Diario de Juárez says the Mexican Senate is putting forward the motion. El Norte is reporting that it’s city government officials. La Polaka claims the idea came from the task force of Operativo Conjunto Chihuahua. In fact, about the only ones not taking credit for pulling the Army out of Juárez are Vicente and Shorty themselves …
Michael, they smoked the mayor of Namiquipa, Chihuahua…it looks like the ________killed him.
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Like I said,
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Like I said, Amigo, the more things chaange, the more they stay the same. The narco dolar is king. Was in mexico two weeks ago, Artoro Machado was running a muck down there, family of Marco Paredes, and Artoro and his little click got an R.P.G pulled on them from Shorty’s people. Even though Marco and Shorty apear pretty tight these days, Artoro does not have the same respect or pull as Marco. Should be an interesting winter. It’s only gonna get better. Lol!
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Shorty will not get captured neither will El flaco . They have waited for their turn as “jefes” invested alot of planning into their hiding and tons of money into intell.
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i just know Juarez is all jacked up now, supposedly 2 lieut’s got taken out on friday by the Gente Nueva, and now a mayor got taken out. the 2 lieut’s were Moniko and El Conde taken out with 50 caliber
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they also smoked two inteligence agents, it is said that paty pelucas could be next.
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http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/15072009/389275.aspx
Maybe the goverment should have a dialogue with all the narcos???????
ROFL
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i can hear La Tuta already, “felipin, we are so sorry we had those 12 federales horribly tortured and executed…so, do we have a truce or what?…”
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Hola Michael. I was a member of the mexican army for four year. You do not know the constitution well. You obviously do not know about Article 29 of the Mexican Constitution. Get Informed!!
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