By RICARDO KLEMENT
Staff Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX - Mexican President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to visit The White House next month, where he is expected to discuss his country's runaway crime with President Barack Obama. It is a needed trip, but it should not take place in Washington, D.C. Calderon is too bloodied politically from the drug-war mess that currently moves across Mexico.
The body count grows by the day, but estimates indicate as many as 6,000 of his country's citizens have been killed by warring cartels in towns from Tijuana to Matamoros along the border. Most of the victims have been innocent people caught in gunfire that splays into its second decade. And still it goes on, unabated and seemingly without internal solution.
What Calderon will ask of the United Sttaes this time around is obvious: More time, more time to resolve the deterioration of life in his country, where employment now rests in the hands of the drug-pushing cartels. He will ask for more foreign aid, more weapons and more support. Calderon will want to appear as a man who sincerely wishes to end the violence that has Mexico's citizenry on its knees. It is not the first time, but it is the latest.
This week's visit to Mexico by First lady Michelle Obama was a precursor. Perhaps Mexico requested the visit. It got positive press and the photos published in the American press showed the First Lady having a grand time with smiling schoolchildren in Mexico City. Too bad Calderon has largely ceded his country's young to the illegal drug industry. Daily, here along the border, it is young Mexicans doing the fighting, being captured by the Mexican military and being killed, left on the dusty streets to rot, to be collected like dead dogs by weeping family members.
No, too much awfulness is playing across Mexico for America to welcome President Calderon as if a worthy guest. He isn't. Not now. And not with rumors swirling that his administration has facilitated certain "advances" by some cartels at the expense of others. Perhaps President Obama should invite the common people of Mexico for a chit-chat.
For that conversation, yes, the White House absolutely should be availed.
The image of Calderon and is wife dining with the Obamas, however, is grossly obscene...
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8 comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJmI_V3j4
~Claire
Thank you for suggesting that wonderful, wonderful song, Claire. It's always good when you bring some balance to my life, although I am somewhat obssessed with the Spanish music of the Border. I owe you a drink... - Editor
there you go mr. editor, the tribune sounds good, looks good, and screw whomever wanted to suit you for a crazy name.
ANON: We're always amazed at the smallness of some things to do with the border culture. We admire, enjoy and love 90% of it. The remaining 10% is what blows it for everybody. Ten-Percenters are dangerous, petty and, yeah, boring... - Editor
Out done yourselfs again good South Texas Music, happy hispanic beat, makes people feel like dancing.
Your not singing dixie, music is okay, a touch of south tex culture, or as they say in college, cantina music, not bad.
ANON: Yes, it is the music of the Border, every swinging conjunto and Mariachi tune, that makes up for the idiocy heard on the streets. This is a lovely shank of land now thoroughly abused by people uninterested in doing what's right... - Editor
A toast to the Editor, couldn' have said it better, thiefs, cheaters, low wages, cheap mexican labor, as they say in talk radio,the hispanics are south tex slaves. Good articles, and good music to. Helps the soul thank you, Mr. Tribune.
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