Mexican Drug War

[Jason Mallory]

[RobSchwartz]

Thanks for posting this. It's pretty disturbing to see what is going on down there. I was also surprised that most of the cartels profits are coming from marijuana. Makes you wonder how much suffering and death could be prevented simply by ending prohibition.

[Mario Lopez Alvarez]

I live in El Paso and my family is from Juarez and Chihuahua. In Juarez, where until recently several of my family members including my grandparetns, aunts, uncles, and cousins lived, the death toll in 2010 alone was over 3,000 ppl. That's more than the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

Fortunately, my relatives were able to move the US (because they are dual citizens) before anything terribly bad happened to them. But many ppl i know personally, or that my relatives know haven't been so lucky. I guy I went to high school was killed in broad daylight. His car had over 23 machine gun bullet holes. There are literally hundreds of other accounts that i have heard personally of ppl being kidnapped, disappeared, car jacked, extorted, and killed. The mexian army has been deployed in the city for a over a year now, placing the city in a quasi state of martial law, but this still has done little to curb the violence and crime.

Its crazy that all this stuff is happening just across from us here on the Rio Grande. I believe that nobody dies before their time, so I take solace in this. But it would be great if Pot was legalized in the states to drive the prices down! I think that's the best solution. These drug cartels have so much power, and there is so much to gain for poor citizens and underpaid law enforcement officials that often times they feel that drug smuggling is their only option. Legalization would be a great way to hit the cartels where it hurts: their wallets.

Glad that you guys are interested in our part of the world! Thanks for the good vibes!

[Jay Chow]

Jason, we seriously need to chill and get high sometime, you post the best shit man

[Jason Mallory]

Jason, we seriously need to chill and get high sometime, you post the best shit man

Hahaha... if I ever make it back to the states we will have to hang for sure !

[Isaiah Mendoza]

hahahahahahahahaha is he stoned at 11:54

[Isaiah Mendoza]

I wonder if that druglord has that general on a paycheck... or has his name and threatens to kill his family if he tells anyone where he is. it's totally possible. My uncle was a pilot in the colombian army and he had to leave the country because guerillas threatened to kill his family. I have another uncle who used to be a judge in colombia but went back to being a lawyer because there were so many death threats made against him and his family.

crazy.