Free trade and Mexico's drug war

[grimyguerilla]

admit it mexico is a failed state

[SANCHEZBROWNPRIDE14]

all the mexicans: CHAPO GUZMAN 4 president of mexico! viva el CHAPO....dont go 2 work 2 usa in mexico hay so much money in the cartel del golfo, cartel de sinaloa, cartel de tijuana,familia michoacana new alianza 2010!

[sistemoneonone]

jump the border whit a kilo of marijuana and They will send you 2 the federal jail you will receive free health sistem whit no charge all kinds of cancer hiv Treatments Transplants cirugy the best team of doctors. the best that human rights will be protecting you all the time cross by the main entrance always ..the first time is 6 months in jail but chose live or dead use the sistem or not 2 use it

[sistemoneonone]

jump the border whit a kilo of mariguana and they will send you 2 the federal jail sow the you can recive free health sistem whit no charge all kinds of treatments cancer hiv cirugy transplants the bes team of doctors. and human rights will protect you i warranty

[Alienpimp33]

Yay, start off with a lie to tell a bigger lie.. Peaple go to prison for smoking pot. Not selling, just handling. Thats the precurser to southern parts of usa and its new laws. Lets go to war, but not with mexico, but the police. They are not gods with friggin badges!!!

[tomcap1984]

Robin Hood? fuck you! in mexico the people hate this bastars! fucking american news! say the true!

[ae86os]

Trillion dollar defense budget? Better check your facts douchebag....it's less than 700 Billion for 2010.

[Potandthekettle]

Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, so at worst, it would bring the actual total to about or at a trillion. Maybe you should check your facts.

[cazzo53]

It's all about Money! nothing happens by coincidence. Mexican drug cartels are the No1 competition of the CIA Drug Business. lots of money loss, no Tax or Share profits reasons! The recent Mexican out of control Drug-War! is intentionally done with military tactics to segregate the Cartels and citizens to cause the distrust and destruction of each other. it's very clear to me there is some infiltrated US Undercover Agents, conducting Mexican Agents. COINTELPRO orders coming from Washington.DC

[Silvertrine]

Read up on history recent and less recent. Read up on how Great Britain controlled the drug trade in China via governmental, corporate, and military mechanisms. Read up on how the Columbian/Panamanian drug war was fought and ask yourself why it was fought. In short educate yourself. The present will become much clearer when you understand the past.

[cazzo53]

Educate myself? so what are you saying, i don't know what am talking about?! i was one of those many whose benefiting outta this business, everything you asked me to study i already went thru physically my man, now i will ask you to study the other side of the page so you educate yourself instead..

[AliMexikano]

Narco-Violence in Mexico is imported TERRORISM !

Shame on the US foreign policies and CIA's secret programs abroad!

Shame on the bipartisan corruption and greed!

Shame on Anglo-drug addicts!

[edgar0111]

well let me tell you something,,the mexican goverment is destroying all the drug cartels rivals of CHAPO guzman,,i was hearding an analistyc of drug trade that said that the busteds of the mexican army just 1% of that busting are for the CHAPO,,i think they did a trate ,,so the chapo is acting with out of violence that is the trate,,

[edgar0111]

you have to undestand too that the 45% of the drugs are from the CHAPO GUZMAN imagine the economic power of this guy

[zgmgeing]

Mmm, and then you wonder why this is happening. 3:58: Free trade with no restrictions; to benefit whom? Not the people of Mexico of course. So, what are the benefits of NAFTA after all?

[ITwarriorTI]

Don't expect the people to loose their faith based on a argument made on youtube, those who are awaken need to focus on those who are free-thinker and go from there, the religious people will be the last people helping in the fight against the sick old aristocrat bastards who are destroying all nations to own the world for their self-fish purposes.

[chick5581]

Whoa what a video I cannot take my eyes off the screen! haha this is very interesting stuff to know about.

[coltzin12]

To go back to a country where the goverment controlled everything would be a tragedy OF immense proportions. for those who don't know MExico used to be at the borderline of communism, the goverment used to control everything, they would control how much profit you could make, I had a goverment file "enemy of the regime" which was turned in to me for educating people to practice democracy and involve themselves in govermntal decisions. So this story of how bad we are today Is BULLSHIT MISTER!

[coltzin12]

recently i've been asking many people if they are better off today or 15 years ago. Everyone will tell you they are better off today. Has Nafta done damage to som sectors yes, has it beneffited other sectors,yes. We all need to adapt. I work in Mexico and I'm better off today than 15 years ago. Agriculture which you critizise. corn production was higher in Sinaloa last year per Hectar than in the US. Mexico stopped investing in farms which have 8 ,12 acres because they will never make aprofit.

[coltzin12]

OK. dude. first you need to put aside your political views, just Tinker with facts. I live on both sides, Mexico and the US, I pay taxes on both sides,belive it or not. At the moment I'm in Culiacan Sinaloa. To hear you critizise Mexicos alignment to the US just blows my mind. YEs, mexico opened up to free trade, to free almost everything.

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[bbburton]

Stop the durg war. It's the sane/humane thing to do.

[AdawehiMeliLayton]

NWO is destroying the Indeginous people of the world. Even in the Continents(all 3) of America.

[kendjo]

mexico is paying a heavy price especially in tourism revenue. I wonder why anyone would wanna do that to mexico?

[biped19]

The poster beneath me makes a great and naive assumption that the American population has a say in politics, dominated by sociopathic corporations and their banking masters. His comments are dangerous and should be ignored. Part of that "deciding how we want things to be" requires dismantling.

[blackiron60]

Unrestricted or poorly regulated capitalism IS anarchy and Mexico is only one of a growing number of states around the world that are learning that lesson the hard way. Never buy what the IMF says.

[BayerLexan]

"Unrestricted or poorly regulated capitalism IS anarchy"

Actually its not anarchy at all, its dictatorship or fascism or a authoritarian type set up. It leads towards a system where a monopolization of power/capital/resources is the goal. Mexico situation shows that those that attain the most power become the rulers, this is not anarchy, but a type of tyranny.

[blackiron60]

Anarchy and tyranny are not as distant as you might think.

[BayerLexan]

I'm using anarchy in the more classical sense, the non-Americanized view, that is anti-hierarchal, and anti-authoritarian in outlook. I should have clarified this, as anarchy isn't well understood in the casual American conversation.

[hugegiantfrogs]

bullshit, Anarchy has one definition, the belief in no government. Americans know this shit

[LPBguy]

Narco trafficking occurs when the "free" market does not allow for the legal sale of drugs, thus pushing these substances into the black market, where violence is used to dominate. If legalization was a reality in both countries, just imagine how well the agrarian based economy of Mexico would do. Formerly unemployed farmers would make thousands growing marijuana (the largest cash crop in California).

[seyoumeye]

Well said!

The real enemy of mankind is the Corp-orate world. If we don't dismantle their system soon or later we'll lose the whole planet - internet is our only means where we can educate others for free, unite together and share our knowledge to liberate mankind from this (corporate) quid pro quo life-style imposed on us.

and It is already happening...just keep spreading the good cause.

[addictfan]

corporations base their actions and the way they run their business on the customers. we dont need to dismantle anything, all we need to do is decide how we want things to be and they will either change or be put out of business. I agree we should unite but you have to understand the logistics of fighting something when a much less force to change things can be used just by altering the way we live and make decisions in our lives.

[BayerLexan]

"all we need to do is decide how we want things to be and they will either change or be put out of business"

If you haven't noticed, businesses that attain enough power utilize their control of the government to keep from going out of business. What the public wants is not applicable.

Even when Bush had < 30% approval he still did what he pleased, the public has little to no control over government/business. Any attempts at public organization, unions.ect., is quickly undermined.

[addictfan]

"Any attempts at public organization, unions.ect., is quickly undermined"

You talk like there is no chance of success in the people trying to choose their own destiny. Through history yes people have been used for tyranny, but when the people decide it's time to overthrow that tyranny their is 100% chance of changing the situation. We're in a war for the hearts and minds of people, not a war with fronts or against organizations who we will never see.

[BayerLexan]

Oh, I don't mean to say there is no chance of success in organizing people. Just that there are bastions of highly concentrated capital/resources/ect. that are working against those that would change or disperse such conglomerates. Its no simple or straight path.

[seyoumeye]

" ..corporate base their business on customers..

Humans are born with a "malleable brain" - to brainwash a child brain through various marketing tools and then to call them customers at adults stage(?)- I see insanity in action and the culprit are the "corporate" not the "consumers" - a herd of folks is guarded by one shepherd...Honestly, both key players need a clean up - even the controlled media (cause of many lies) is being dismantled by not accept viewer comment on their News websites.

[addictfan]

sure you can brainwash people and have a slight chance of affecting their actions or decision making process. but just remember that we always have a choice. no amount of brainwashing can take that away.

[BayerLexan]

People that are brainwashed are just that, they have NO individual thoughts. They are totally controlled. The few possible thoughts they have against what they are told to do/think are fleeting as they are made to fear going against their master.

Their is NO "slight" control over these people.

For a real, and fairly recent example, look up info about "Jonestown" a cult settlement in S. America that ended in mass suicide. These are brainwashed people.

[addictfan]

What you said about people like the people in jonestown are true, it seems like those type of people are brainwashed beyond understanding. But those people subject themselves to a master and give away their own rights and freedom of thought for that master. Everyday people do not have a master, were allowed to think how we want and act how we want. If any1 is really brainwashed now days its because they choose to, and they can also choose not to be. We have no master to take away those freedoms.

[KamuiTa]

Ever thought about how religion is used to manipulate people? Wake up man, God has been used to control people all over the world since the dawn of time, and there's always a man behind the curtain. It's in most religious texts that you have to subject yourself to the judgement of your God and do what he says. If that's not brainwashing, I don't know what is.

[addictfan]

You have a very good point about religion and people. But let me remind that people won't allow themselves to be controlled by men behind the curtains very long. Remember the protestant reformation? People not wanting to be controlled by 1 person through religion is the very reason why a lot of christians don't take orders from the pope anymore. idk man, I was just trying to make a point that people that have real independence and freedom of thought won't give it up. Brainwashing or not.

[KamuiTa]

There I agree with you, people who throw off the chains are spectacularly reluctant to put them back on. The Catholics are on the run to be sure, as are many major religions. THis is the reason I believe that religion has become so politicized; the ideas are struggling to stay relevant in a modern context and having trouble keeping up, which is why there is such fierce debate over intelligent design, gay marriage, stem cells, etc. It's the church trying to keep the power it's quickly losing.

[addictfan]

All very true, but then this has been happening for centuries. But whats also true is that sometimes people take off the chain and shackles only to be put in other bondage. This country may be free of religious rules and dogma but were still ruled by our system of credit and debt, and our overly capitalist thinking neglects the needs of future modernization of other countries deep in poverty. We may be brainwashed somewhat, but we still have our choices of how we treat and live with each other.

[KamuiTa]

I don't understand what you mean. You say that we often throw off one chain for another (true) but that ultimately we decide how we treat others. If you live under a dogma, whether that dogma be political, religious, or monetary, your decisions are still ruled over by the approval of the system you are a member of. The vast majority of people only have the illusion of freedom, choice, or independent thought because they haven't bothered to come up with their own ideas about things.

[addictfan]

Well as long as people choose to make decisions and base their thinking off what other people tell them, there's gonna be those people who will want to take advantage of it. Like Socrates said, a life without self reflection and questioning the world around us isn't worth living.

Maybe people now days are too afraid to come up with their own ideas, you could be wrong. Seems safer to just believe what most people are saying at the time. But then that's the ultimate illusion of knowledge.

[KamuiTa]

It's never safe to accept someone else's idea without thinking about whether or not it makes sense, that's indoctrination.

The issue I see is that most people don't have conversations like this: wither they don't understand, they don't want to question what they've accepted as fact, or they don't give a shit. You can't ask people not to care, you have to figure out a way to make them care, and I don't know how to do that.

[addictfan]

Conversations like this, whether it's just with people who know nothing of each other, or between close friends and family, It's the only way that change for everyone has really come about. But there is no real way to make people care about what is happening. All we can do is show them how we see things, and there will be a chance that they see some things the same way. When people are given knowledge that makes their lives better, they will feed off and cultivate the source of that knowledge.

[KamuiTa]

Amen brother.

[BayerLexan]

"people won't allow themselves to be controlled by men behind the curtains very long. Remember the protestant reformation"

And how many centuries did the catholic church rule the world before this happened? And how many millions of followers does it still have?

[BayerLexan]

Yes, you can think and act how you want, but people are born and raised all the while, being indoctrinated into a capitalist society. Little if any other view points are shown to people in a realistic manner. Not to mention the continuous onslaught of commercial propaganda that is intertwined into almost all aspects of our lives. People subject themselves to a "master" without even realizing it.

[addictfan]

But you realize it don't you? I realize it. Who's to say that there is no hope for others to see when we ourselves have found sight? There may be a "master propaganda" agenda going on, but when we identify it loses its control over us. We can point at it, laugh at it, and mostly importantly not let it affect our lives. None of us can say that we've never been bought into some indoctrination, But the human mind doesn't want to be controlled, we do whats right to ourselves and see whats happening

[seyoumeye]

You see the problem lies with the priesthood dogmatic religion - My theory is there is a strict correlation between the number of churches and number of drug traffickers and for the 2 groups to operates smoothly they require a high number of ignorance and sick society with "compulsive buyer" disorder. this is the case of italy(headmaster), Spain, Mexico, Brazil...

[mikezephyr]

read endgame by derrick jensen.

[mikezephyr]

the modern bourgeois state was essentially created to be an extortion racket to fight the wars of colonizers/land thieves and capitalists.

government is nothing more than owner of the monopolized means of violence and coercion.

yuck.

[Hawkflieshigh]

Do not confuse Corporatism with the Free Market. They are not the same. In fact large corporations are up to their eyeballs in drugs both legal and illegal. This is the left right paradigm being used by the Masters. Once we realize that the Left is as wrong as the Right we will find our proper middle ground with a Republic of the United American States. That will piss the Masters off because moving us into Communism will be lost. This is a left leaning report. BEWARE!

[mikezephyr]

bro i'm not an american, and learn what communism is.

[ceomeye]

this fear and drug war and NAFTA has to do with destroying the Mexican economy. The U.S.A designed this, to quarantine and isolate Mexico and to destroy mexico;s economy, people, culture, and statehood. Mexico is so far from GOD, but it is very close to the devil. The U.S does not see Mexico as their good neighbors, but as slave neighbors, the mentality of many white nazis is "IT TAKES TWO TANGO, BUT YOU BROWN AND NATIVE PEOPLE ARE NOT INVITED TO TANGO WITH US, WHITE SUPREMACISTS!

[asperin]

Mexico should legalize Marijuana.

Believe it or not, it will influence its neighbors when they see that it is good for the economy to plant Marijuana, and Hemp, lets not forget that.

[dackjaniels555]

The funny thing is that the cartels are less corrupt than the establishment.

[ferrozm]

NAFTA isn't free trade. There shouldn't be subsidies to US agro business. Free trade is good NAFTA is not.

[joewilder]

This problem could be solved overnight. Listen Mexico. Legalize marijuana immediately. Make Mexico the premier marijuana agribusiness in the world. Contrary to the belief that marijuana is bad for people, it is actually good. Turn your outlaws into world class entrepreneurs. Grow your economy, boost your tourism.  Make your country safer. Peace, Love. God bless you.

[MiranUT]

Agree. In fact, legalize all drugs! After initial experimentation, usage would go down. Junkies will always be about 3% of the population. If we free nonviolent drug offenders, the savings: about 50 grand/year per slave, I mean prisoner.

Unfortunately, the real criminals aren't the ones who produce and sell drugs, it's the bankster money launderers and the corrupt intelligence officers. Look at how your local police are funded by the drug war. They will not want to give up that money.

[boots920]

Just shows how destructive corporations are when they turn a economy of the people for the people into a economy of corporations (soft fascism) for the corporations.

They should be a war on corporations and government !!

[pataphysician66]

We have to get rid of NAFTA-can't the leaders in the US and Mexico get it through their heads that it isn't working?

[llshamelessll]

true free trade without protections for workers only means all your jobs flow out of your country to poor countries. How can anybody in america make 20 bucks an hour when mexico or chine will do it for 10 bucks a day? eventually america will have to give up its military because all the tax base is gone. every 50,000 dollar a year job america has lost means the taxes from that job are lost also. the top 2% get filthy rich on cheap labor and the rest head toward the poverty level.

[MiranUT]

But free trade will allow all countries to produce what they produce best. In the USA it's Hollywood movies (our biggest export).

Yes, workers should be allowed to organize and nogotiate with management. They used to.

The consumer is important. If you don't like what's produced in Mexico/China, don't buy it. One of the problems with the economy is that consumer will buy crap -- even crap they don't need. Ideal: an educated consumer driven economy, not central planning!

[yay1912]

And the free trade act is not an example of free market capitalism.

And actually our biggest export is military equipment, I think.

And If I didn't but what was made in exploited countries I would be naked and hungry.

A boy cot in this case wouldn't work I think but I do agree another form of direct action is needed.

[sexdrugsRnR]

what a stupid video, free trade?

while subsidizing corporate entities?

with a monopoly on the monetary system?

drug cartels want to keep drugs illegal so that they can be monopolizors...

this is not the free market.

the real news? yea right. go watch 'true news'

[wcarlpdrysdale]

Smoking hot comment ,sex

end the war on human nature,,, er ,, drugs !

and the use of violence to enforce a monopoly (the fed). ps. the "real news" IS a propaganda tool , every one knows that !

[LouieArrighi]

you're another one of those kids that support RP or anarchy. go to college and learn economics

[sexdrugsRnR]

I'm in university... douche.

[LouieArrighi]

I can tell you in University. lol

[mikezephyr]

free trade ≠ free market.

'free trade' has a specific historical meaning beyond the ideological sense of 'free markets' used to describe capitalistic economics.

moreover, it is exactly what you described above: free trade is state-corporate collusion to reinforce and intensify capital-accumulation and monopolization- which is the inherent dynamic of capitalism since the extirpation of the commons. spanish and american capitalists have been monopolists since the 17th century.

[sexdrugsRnR]

a free market without free trade (ie with border controls) is not a free market.

[mikezephyr]

but that's capitalism for you baby.

[privatepadilla]

Exactly.

I love how so called free trade agreements come with the added stipulation that other countries follow our unconstitutional/immoral drug policies.

And just pretend the results of our drug war are the result of some totally unrelated desire of the free market to illicitly supply drugs to US citizens.

The current policy of purposely leaving cartels free to dominate said markets is the worst form of totalitarian capitalism Ive seen.

Socialism > this crap...

[mikepalomino]

Well said.

[cool70200]

Be careful, socialism does appear attractive and appealing on certain levels, but it itself can be very destructive as well.

However capitalism doesnt and cant promise equality, fairness, proper checks and balances or non exploitment either.

So what works? thats the human question.

[pataphysician66]

I agree.

[schulwitz]

Is the real news blaming free trade here?

It seems like these problems are caused by the drug war itself, not trade.

[jumajumajei]

Of course the problems are caused by the drug war, and magnified by these policies. Maybe on purpose. Maybe even the the whole recession, wouldnt be the first time.

[bellyacherbaker]

You should watch again. Large companies (agro farms, wal-mart) remove decent wage jobs, leaving a vacuum for trafficers to move in. In other words, rich get richer, poor get poorer, and then politicians say "Gee, why are these people commiting crimes so they can eat? Lets make drug laws more strict and lock more people up! It hasn't worked since the war on drugs started, but maybe it will work this time!!" Remind you of any other country?

[MiranUT]

Yes, I thought of the US when I heard that. The same for the RN interview with economist Wolf, barking that Mexico is an economy in free-fall! I thought of the USA and its debt-burdened economy. Looks like Bush-Obama bought time, but they haven't fixed the problem.

[34bartovids]

The only solution to the drug war is to not fight it. Didn't we learn from prohibition that not letting people do whatever they want to their own bodies is their right?

[flyhead2]

The 'drug war' is a commercial enterprise with a twisted dynamic all of its own.

[Lawlow1978]

every major problem in mexico from A-Z can be traced back to US interference. and it is the height of hypocracy and ignorance for americans to blame mexico for illegal immigration

[seyoumeye]

No, don't blame nations states.

Drug finances "secret service organisations" ,The Jesuits they run the drug business - the monarch kings and religion priesthoods run and profit from narcotics trafficking to protect their power position and to control the masses.Places where there is a problem of drug trafficking there you'll find many churches preaching nonsense doctrines....I read Spain Juan Carlos is loosing territories in Mexico drug business as prices are going down.

[MiranUT]

seyourmeye is correct. In the US it's to keep the urban poor in place. Is it a coincidence that Nixon declared the War on Drugs just as civil rights laws were being passed? Just after the great Martin Luther King Jr started to speak out against the injustices of the Vietnam War?

Institutionalized slavery, it is.