As I posted earlier today (but perhaps with a not-sensational enough diary title), an arrest warrant was issued for a Mexican mayor and his wife, among others, in connection to a slaughter of at least 6 students (over 40 still missing)
This is not just "another bad story out of Mexico" that we can ignore, even though as Americans we have the privilege of creating monsters like this drug war and then ignoring the consequences because we're tired of hearing bad news.
http://www.latimes.com/...
Aguirre -- along with several other senior leaders -- had been weathering a firestorm over his handling of the disappearances, subsequent revelations of how deep the collusion went among police, politicians and drug gangs, and the discovery of mass graves around Iguala containing at least 30 bodies, none thought to be the students.
Federal authorities now believe that Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca ordered local police to intercept and attack the students to prevent them from disrupting a speech and party that Abarca’s wife was holding. Maria de los Angeles Pineda heads a government social welfare agency whose achievements she was celebrating. But she also has family and working ties with drug gangs, authorities say.
Mexican Atty. Gen. Jesus Murillo Karam said drug gangs had “weaved a network of complicity” with several city halls and police departments in Guerrero -- a damning condemnation of Aguirre’s tenure.
Aguirre is from the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, in opposition to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party of President Enrique Pena Nieto and the federal government.
Anyone who's been on this site long enough knows well enough how left-leaning organizations can experience rot and decay--the modern Democratic Party being case in point.
One of the main arguments in today's earlier diary is that cartel violence is as big- if not bigger- problem as ISIS. Both undermine governments and create mass amounts of violence.
--even as the U.S. media and policymakers radically inflate ISIL’s threat to the Middle East and United States, most Americans appear to be unaware of the scale of the atrocities committed by Mexican drug cartels and the threat they pose to the United States.--
Cartels versus ISIL:
A recent United Nations report estimated nearly 9,000 civilians have been killed and 17,386 wounded in Iraq in 2014, more than half since ISIL fighters seized large parts on northern Iraq in June. It is likely that the group is responsible another several thousand deaths in Syria. To be sure, these numbers are staggering. But in 2013 drug cartels murdered more than 16,000 people in Mexico alone, and another 60,000 from 2006 to 2012 — a rate of more than one killing every half hour for the last seven years. What is worse, these are estimates from the Mexican government, which is known to deflate the actual death toll by about 50 percent.