[Militarism] Raising Terrorism

Obama and US commander discuss military intervention in Mexico

By Bill Van Auken
10 March 2009

...What is deliberately obscured in all of these responses to the situation in Mexico, is that the decision of Calderon to pursue a militarized response to the longstanding and essentially socioeconomic problem of drug-trafficking, has everything to do with immense social tensions building up in the country as well as the political crisis of his own presidency, which a substantial portion of the population still sees as illegitimate following the disputed 2006 election.

These tensions have been immensely exacerbated by the onset of the world financial crisis, which has wiped out more than half a million jobs in Mexico since November—while driving large sections of manufacturing, and in particular the country's extensive auto assembly and parts production sector—into depression conditions. Last week, Volkswagen announced another 1,050 layoffs at its assembly plant in Puebla.

Meanwhile Ciudad Juarez, where the Mexican army is carrying out its current occupation, is also one of the main centers of the maquiladora industry, the assembly plants that exploit cheap Mexican labor in the production of consumer goods bound for the other side of the border. Layoffs have swept through many plants in the city, leaving large sections of the population desperate for work.

The official unemployment rate rose to 5 percent in January, from 4.32 percent the month before. This figure grossly underestimates the real situation, however, as it excludes the so-called informal sector, which accounts for 40 percent of the economy, and counts as employed anyone who works as little as an hour a week.

Last month, Mexico's telecom mogul Carlos Slim, counted as the second richest man in the world, warned that "unemployment will rise as we have never seen in our personal lives [and] companies small, medium and large will go bankrupt."

Meanwhile, the number of remittances sent by Mexican citizens working in the US fell by 20 percent between January 2008 and January 2009. This money sent home for the most part by poorly paid undocumented workers constitutes the second largest source of foreign exchange for the Mexican economy after oil exports. There is also a growing fear that many of the Mexican immigrants in the US, unable to find work, will begin returning home to find even worse prospects.

It is in this explosive context that Calderon's deployment of the military serves as a means of social control and repression.

The sending out of the army has resulted in a growing number of denunciations of severe human rights violations, with the military charged with crimes ranging from massacres to extra-judicial executions, torture, rapes and illegal detention. The government's own National Commission on Human Rights has reported receiving a total of 1,602 such complaints between January 2007 and December 2008.

One representative case took place in Ciudad Juarez in January with the military's abduction of Jaime Irigoyen. A 19-year-old law student at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez and a varsity pitcher for the university's baseball team, he was dragged from his bed by uniformed soldiers as his family screamed in protest.

Later, as relatives protested outside the local military base, Irigoyen's blindfolded and gagged body was discovered dumped in the street. It is suspected that the abduction and execution was a case of mistaken identity, based on faulty intelligence obtained by means of torturing other suspects. Nonetheless, the military subsequently laid siege to the funeral home where Irigoyen's wake was held, searching the cars of mourners, blocking surrounding streets and arresting several of those in attendance.

It is under conditions of this type of ongoing military violence that the Obama administration and the Pentagon are now proposing to apply the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, while providing the hardware and advisors to prosecute a civil war against a restive working class south of the US border.

more at: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/mexi-m10.shtml

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[seriouslycurious1]

@ThisWeekInFascism razón por la que votó la gente unión synarchst, fue el voto de un fraude, la gente necesita cada uno, el Papa es lo que le permite morir de hambre, ¿verdad??

[ThisWeekInFascism]

@fodonga ...may the Fox be with you. :)

[fodonga]

@elKavernikola i agree

[boltville]

So now Obama is sending troops into Mexico to start another false flag war? They gone broke frighting over seas so now they try a easier and cheaper war close to home? How long before they think they can take on Canada too just to further that crazy Dictaror's Agenda? I think they better stay their ass home and look after the mess in their own back yard......it's getting pretty deep with the BS Obama is spreading behind the W.H. He ain't never gonna be my President!

[boltville]

I laughed right out loud when they showed the Pentagon...lol They should talk the basterds

[edsonry]

it is directed to whom believe that he can invade a country like Mexico.

[Nompo]

What does this mean and who is it directed to?

@Video: Neo-conservatism marches on to our neighbors in the South. There must be some kind of anti-capatist social movement in Mexico. Probably protests against the North American Union being set up. They don't want to be swallowed by the economical death machine the US is spreading throughout the world.

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...may the Fox be with you. :)

[Sergionewyork]

hahahaha JUST TRY IT! AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT YOUR REALITY IS!

[SubmarinerAndroid]

A: No.