President Calderon: "US drug addiction is responsible
for the unprecedented number of police deaths in Mexico"by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de AztlanLos Angeles, Alta California - May 30, 2008 - (ACN) Mexican President Felipe Calderon dropped a bombshell at a meeting yesterday with the governors of US/Mexico bordering states. At the official presidential residence of Los Pinos, President Calderon told the governors that Mexico is paying with the lives of a large number of law enforcement and military officials because of the immense drug addiction problem north of the border. The president said that the USA has the largest number of drug consumers in the world.
Those present at the meeting were the governors of California, New Mexico, Texas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California. Absent were the governors of Arizona and Tamaulipas. Three Mexican bordering states have experienced extraordinary violence and deaths as police and the Mexican army battle extremely well armed and bold drug cartels. These states are Baja California, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas. Some of the bloodiest battles have occurred in the border towns of Tijuana in Baja California, Cd. Juarez in Chihuahua and in Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas.
The battles have now spread to the interior of Mexico. Recently two top level federal law enforcement officials were killed in their homes in Mexico City. Also, the police chief and the entire police department of the town of Villa Ahumada in the state of Chihuahua had to flee to escape certain death at the hands of "narco-commandos" who invaded and took over the town. The bold take-over of Villa Ahumada was accomplished with military precision and the utilization of military grade weapons including assault rifles, grenades and bazookas. The well organized cartel cadres are now recruiting and receiving political support among Mexico's destitute populations.
President Felipe Calderon is correct when he blames the USA for the drug problem and its negative effects on Mexico. The American people are in denial about its huge addiction problem. Marijuana, Heroin, Cocaine and Meth use is now rampant in all levels of American society. Many so called Hollywood "Stars" use them on a regular basis and there have been countless entertainers who have died of overdoses. Also, drug use at USA universities is now quite common. Recently authorities arrested 75 students at San Diego State University for using or dealing in drugs. Most of the dealing was being done through campus fraternities. San Diego State University officials started an investigation when a sorority member, a nice Jewish freshman student, died of a Cocaine overdose after partying all night.
The American people are also quite ignorant about the nature of the multi-billion dollar drug trade and who in the USA is actually behind it. The use of drugs and the drug trade have now corrupted entire police departments in major cities in the USA and this corruption has reached the highest levels of the US government. Two US presidents have now admitted to using illicit drugs, they are Bill Clinton and George Bush. Bill Clinton admitted to using Cannabis commonly known as Marijuana and in a recent book, by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, President George Bush admits to having used Cocaine.
There are certain individuals, government officials, banks, and corporations in the USA that profit immensely from the drug trade. The Los Angeles Police Department has been involved in a "drug trade protection racket" better known as the "Rampart Corruption Scandal" in which dirty cops provided immunity to drug dealers in return for some of the drug profits. All Americans, who are half awake, should be aware of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) complicity in the international drug trade. This complicity is summarized in our editorial "Plan Mexico and the CIA" that has a link below. Also, some of the largest banks in the USA are making incredible profits through the "laundering" of drug money. In addition there are two majorUS corporations in the chemical industry that have accumulated vast fortunes by exporting to Colombia the chemicals necessary to convert the coca leaves to cocaine.
There is an incredible simple solution to this major problem. The American voting public must first become enlightened about the nature of drugs. Then as a united block they must take out the profit out of the trade in drugs. They must treat the use of drugs not as a criminal act but as a medical problem and mitigate their use through education. Instead of wasting billions of dollars yearly in the so called "War on Drugs" and in imprisonment, this money could be funded to a national level medical institution empowered to treat addicts or those who choose to use drugs and for research and education. The major problem is not in the use of drugs. It exists because of the countless entities, both on the drug enforcement bureaucracy side and in the supply side, which have become "addicted" to the immense profits that the drug trade generates.
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