So if there is so much pain and passion in Mexico, our neighbor, a - TopicsExpress



          

So if there is so much pain and passion in Mexico, our neighbor, a country with which we share a 2,000-mile-long border as well as profound economic and cultural ties, why such American indifference? It has become something of a truism to point to how deeply the United States is implicated in the drug war. American demand, Mexican supply. American guns, Mexican bloodbath. And yet the merciless violence south of the border — which Mexicans now see as the state mutilating its own people — makes it easy to think of the drug war as Mexico acting out its dark obsessions. What Americans cant face is precisely that weve broken bad together with Mexico: that corruption is a binational affair...
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:57:20 +0000

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