Caravan From Mexico Seeks to Condemn U.S. Drug Policy
Carrying the weight of his murdered son’s memory, a Mexican poet is leading a national caravan — with stops in Austin and several other Texas cities — to publicly condemn American drug policies.
Javier Sicilia and his Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a group whose members have been affected by drug-related violence in Mexico — including several who have lost loved ones — will descend on the state Capitol on Aug. 25. The group aims to raise awareness of how it says U.S. drug policy, particularly the war on drugs, has affected Mexico.
“In order to protect the 23 million ...
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Bluh Bluh
Here's an idea. Don't come into America and tell us how to run our country. I believe that the war on drugs is as ridiculous and never ending as the war on terror. But maybe you should take a look at your own country's problems with corruption and poor quality of life before coming over here and criticizing the United States policies.
Janna McB
It's about time something is done about this so called "war on drugs", which is truly only against marijuana. It's a weed that is common throughout the world and has so many uses they can't all be counted. The US government has been forcing other countries to comply with their drug laws or face drastic consequences. This is creating havoc in our southern countries, with violence and assassinations against innocent and peaceful people, forcing many of Mexico's citizens to flee to the US and Canada for safety. There can be no curbing of illegal immigration while the war on drugs is forcing people to flee for their lives.
The Mexican people are suffering from this war, it is causing poverty and death in places that used to be great tourist sites along all of the border states. Now it is crossing the border into our own states and bringing the same death and violence into our own cities and towns all along the border.
Fences and stronger border patrols cannot contain the horrors these people face and wishing will can't make it all go away. It's here, on our own doorsteps, it's time for the people of the United States to stand with the Mexican people and say 'WE WANT PEACE!! NO MORE WAR ON DRUGS!!
Dave Cortez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Join us if you're in Austin on the 25th!
https://www.facebook.com/events/253760541392686
Bill Eaves via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mexico has to take responsibility, they like the money & everyone is on the take!!
Wilkins Micawber
A Mexican poet advocating a re-examination of US and Mexican drug policy is not telling anyone how to run "our" country.
The "Here's an idea. Don't come into America and tell us how to run our country" response of Bubba Bluh Bluh is, unfortunately, typical of knee-jerk American chauvanism and hypocrisy.
The US, as the major market for Mexican and South American illicit drugs, contributes heavily to the corruption of Central and South America. And the United States government, through its drug policy and the so-called war on drugs DOES dictate to many countries what THEIR policy shall be. In other words, how to run their country.
You can't have it both ways, or put another way, what's sauce for the gallo is sauce for the eagle.
Lovablelabby 2012
If readers, Julian Aguliar, and the Texas Tribune truly cared about gun violence, they would demand full disclosure of how 5000 assault rifles were walked across the border and used used to murder over 20,000 Mexican citizens.
This is a human rights issue, not a political issue, but in this election year political hypocrites don't care about murdered Mexican citizens, only about hiding the truth and holding on to power. If they were your relatives you would feel betrayed. What is executive privilege and agenda journalism hiding?
Everything today is politicized. Who will speak up for you when the time comes.
David Spratt
Always a good idea to point out someone else's flaws to deflect from your own shortcomings. You are the ones producing these poisons that degrade our society and poison the minds and bodies of our Citizens.. You are the ones who have your impoverished peasants fleeing your countries and flooding across our borders and then have the nerve to condemn us when we resist taking them all in.
You need to clean your own houses before you go to someone else's and take out your white gloves.
We do not need to legalize drugs in this country. In California where do these people that are smoking all this weed work? If you are high on drugs you are unemployable. If you have an industrial accident or job related incident you will be drug tested and fired.
No Javier, you need to get your own people to cunsume more of this garbage in your own countries and quit trying to convince the drug free people in this country to accept your destructive ways of living.
whoever issued you and your caravan visas to come here to promote the sales of your poisons should be fired and your and your band of dope heads should be escorted to the border without delay.
Juan Reynoso
FREEDOM IS BASE ON TRUST – TRUST IS BASE ON TRUTH
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Will any one will vote for a criminal?
Fellow Americans, There are evidences that The State Dept. and Obama use the CIA and the DEA to overthrow Honduras's legitimate elected president Jose Manuel Zelaya and replace him with Porfirio Lobo; the coup took place in June of 2009. They used as an excuse the war on drugs to train Honduras's police and military at the school of las Americas to overthrow President Jose Manuel Zelaya. The US and the insiders of this coup which are the wealthy landowners like Mr. Miguel Facusse, are now in control of Honduras and use this country as the main transit route for South America cocaine trade. Today Honduras is the transfer point use by traffickers to transport the cocaine through Mexico to the U.S. Most of the cocaine (20 to 30 tons) that reaches the U.S use Honduras's Miguel Facusse property as landing point for the South American cocaine.
Obama, Hilary Clinton and the CIA are responsible for the killing of more than 5000 people including journalists, lawyers and activists, also this violence, corruption and human rights violations done by the DEA and the Obama's supported illegitimate government. To this date Obama and Hilary Clinton continue supporting the illegitimate and criminal Honduran regime and drug cartels in Honduras and Mexico and as always they are engage in overthrowing legitimate elected presidents and place in power pawn governments that will work with them in their criminal activities and best interest.
The Nation magazine's recently uncovered close relationship between the corporate drug lords and private paramilitaries and the Obama administration. Wealthy landowners with ties to the cocaine trade, like Miguel Facussé, who actively supported the 2009 military coup, and who has met with the State Department numerous times, and met with Obama in Washington DC in the first week of October. We know that Obama has allocated $45 million in new funds for military construction, including expansion and improvement of the jointly operated Soto Cano Air Force Base at Palmerola (supplied now with US drones) and has opened three new military bases, Police and military funding, almost $10 million for 2011, rose dramatically in June with $40 million more under the new $200 million Central American Regional Security Initiative, supposedly to combat drug trafficking in Central America, but the DEA and CIA action tell a history of drug trafficking not of drug war or eradication.
We know that the DEA is engage in trafficking drug from Mexico to the U.S and selling guns to the Mexicans drug cartels, ( Fast and furious ).
Our United States is corrupt to the core, where is the News media and the Latino organizations that claim to be working in the best interest of the Latino community, La Raza, Maldef, Mecha, Lulac, The Hispanic caucus, The National Hispanic Leadership, The Texas Hispanic caucus and the promoters of amnesty and immigration reform; they all claim to work for the best interest of the Latino community, but they are silent, all dare to expose the Obama regime and defend their country of origin that is being destroy by the Obama administration, their greed for political power it is more important to them, that their country of origin and their U.S. Community where the drugs are destroying millions of families. Most US citizens of Hispanic heritage. are silent not one want to expose this corrupt administration that seek the Latino vote. Are we stupid or we are placing our self interest before our values our laws and what is right?.
The Honduran human-rights activists, along with many of us in the United States who care about Honduras, do not believe that this administration can, or should, manage a cleanup of the very cesspool it helped to create by supporting a government that owes its power to a coup.
Instead, we need to respect proposals for alternative approaches that Honduran human-rights advocates and the opposition are beginning to formulate. These come from people who are still fighting against the coup and who continue to risk paying the price of being shot dead by state security forces and the American CIA and DEA. Hondurans, not the State Department, have the right to lead their country forward.
For many years our country's foreign policies was dictate by the the multinational corporations of this United states; we have used the CIA, The DEA, FBI and our arm forces to engaged in crimes against humanity not only in the U.S., but also in foreign countries. We know that the Obama administration is corrupt and Obama is a pathological liar and a deceiver, not one of Latino heritage should vote for this criminal, we should expose him for what he is and prosecute him and his cronies.
In God we Trust – and ask God to give us the wisdom and courage to stand for humanity and for what is right and the truth. God Blesses America the land of the free.
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Debbie Zimm
I am positively astounded by the ignorance and "war cry" on this subject. There have been report after report of the failed drug policies. Reports of US government involvement in the smuggling... Are so many people employed by the government and so blind they can't at least discuss the issue? If you criminalize illegal immigrrants, they behave like criminals. If you criminalize drugs, users behave like criminals. If we make rehabilitation an option, the success rate would improve. If we took a smart approach on this, we might balance the budget.