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  • Comes Caca: La ofensiva Tet en la guerra contra las drogas en México

    ¿La ofensiva Tet en la Guerra contra las Drogas de México?



    Por Robert Mackey y Elias E. López





    Publicado por el periódico que ya es casi del gordito ladrón de Carlo$ $lim (que en Inglés quiere decir delgado) D,The New York Times



    Traducido por Rafael Norma Méndez


    Quadratin




    Afuera de los cuarteles de la policía federal en el Estado de Michoacán, en donde tres oficiales fueron asesinados durante un ataque del cartel de drogas el 11 de julio.

    El periódico EL Universal informa que un hombre, de quien se cree sea el nuevo líder del cartel de drogas conocido como ”L a familia” Salvador Gómez Alias “La Tuta” llamó a un programa noticiero de la Televisión , en el Estado occidental de Michoacán este Jueves pidiendo “un diálogo” con el gobierno Mexicano, esperando obtener “un pacto nacional” para finalizar con la violenta guerra contra las drogas en México. [i] El Universal colocó extractos de la llamada telefónica en su sitio de Internet.

    En dicha llamada, el líder del cartel dijo que “ La Familia fue creada para (SIC) servir al pueblo d e Michoacán, “ y declaró que ” todo lo que queremos es paz y tranquilidad” Añadió que el grupo “no quiere nada en contra del Presidente Felipe Calderón, o su gobierno, pero que ”ellos combaten a la policia federal sólo porque están molestando a nuestras familias…. fabricando acusaciones y llevándose a gente inocente.”

    También emitió esta advertencia sorpendente: “ Nosotros somos un mal necesario. Jamás se librarán de nosotros. Aunque muera, me reemplazarán, Y así continuará todo, es por eso que debemos alcanzar un pacto nacional un consenso”

    El gobierno Mexicano rechazó la oferta.

    El arresto de una figura central del cartel mexicano conocido como “LA Familia” condujo a una ola de ataques coordinados de dicho cartel en contra de los puestos de la policía federal y de una base militar, en donde asesinaron a tres policías federales y a dos soldaditos de plomo..

    El rango y al extensión de la violencia a través de todo el estado de Michoacán, hizo que el calumnioso columnista Ciro Gómez [/b] lo comparara con La ofensiva Tet durante la perdida Guerra de Vietnam . En una columna intitulada EL Tet Michoacano y el principio del fin” , publicada este lunes en el periódico Milenio el Sr. Gómez escribió:

    ” En la guerra contra las drogas, el 11 de julio parece como una clase de Ofensiva Tet; la ofensiva sincronizada al estilo Hollywoodense por la guerrillas victoriosas del Ejército Vietnamita en contra de las tropas de los Estados Unidos de MAMERICA , a finales de enero de 1968;, que a pesar de ser descritas como un desastre militar, el anteriormente invencible ejército jamás ganó en Vietnam”



    Las bases policíacas través de Michoacán fueron atacadas por pistoleros.

    EL Sr. Gómez hizo notar que en muchos de los lugares donde el cartel golpeó entre el sábado y domingo, los funcionarios a quienes acusan de estar coludidos con los narcos ahora se encuentran presos en la cárcel. . Tal como mi colega reportera, Elisabeth Malkin ha informado, El presidente Mexicano Felipe Calderón ha hecho de Michoacán “la línea frontal en una nueva fase de la guerra contra las drogas, cuando las autoridades federales arrestaron a 10 alcaldes y 17 funcionarios del gobierno del Estado de Michoacán acusándolos de proteger a los carteles de la droga.”

    En la última linea de su columna, EL Sr. Gómez señaló que el cartel de Michoacán “es tan sólo uno de los cuatro a los que la milicia y la policía Mexicana está enfrentando en una guerra que ya ha cobrado 12,800 vidas..”

    Esta semana la violencia no ha sido abatida

    Mi colega Marc Lacey reportó que en el periódico del miércoles, “las autoridades determinaron que los doce (12) [XII] cadáveres mutilados descubiertos a lo largo de la carretera montañosa en el Estado de Michoacán, eran oficiales de policía que no estaban en horas de servicio..” En una toma justamente debajo de una escena criminal que acompañaba el artículo en [i] Los Angeles Timesˆ/i] explicaba: Los oficiales policíacos asesinados en el Estado de Michoacán, 11 hombres y una mujer, fueron torturados y posteriormente asesinados a tiros” En un video reportaje de la BBC incluyen imágenes de los oficiales sacrificados, quienes fueron emboscados cuando no estaban prestando sus servicios, secuestrándolos, torturándolos y asesinándolos.

    En respuesta, el gobierno Mexinaco esta concentrando sus fuerzas para una contra ofensiva en Michoacán. De acuerdo con un video reportaje del Universal, que muestra a las fuerzas federales en ruta hacia el estado d e Michoacán, la fuerza allí reunida, incluyendo a los policías federales, soldados y marinos es de 4,000 efectivos. Tal como un colega señala, es del mismo tamaño que la fuerza de la Marina de los Estados Unidos en la actual ofensiva en el sur de Afganistán. El título del video reportaje de EL Universal se toma de una declaración hecha por el Comandante de las fuerzas armadas Rodolfo Cruz López abordando un avión hacia el estado que se traduce como [i] Les vamos a patear el culo[/b]

    Los Angeles Times informó que el presidente de México dijo el jueves “ No podemos ni debemos dar un paso atrás en este asunto.” De acuerdo con el reporte de la BBC, el Sr. Calderón prometió: “Los criminales no tendrán la capacidad de intimidar al gobierno federal”

    Sin embargo,, el L.A. Times anota:

    [i] Los Mexicanos parecen escépticos. En una nueva encuesta, más de la mitad de los entrevistados creen que el gobierno está perdiendo la guerra . Tan sólo el 285 dijo que “la está ganando”, de acuerdo con la investigación publicada por el Diairo Milenio este martes

    El miércoles Reuters reportó que escenas si9milares sucedieron al norte del país, donde el alcalde de un poblado fue asesinado en venganza por el arresto de miembros de un cartel de drogas:

    Los pistoleros acribillaron a Héctor Meixueiro en su camioneta mientras manejaba hacia su trabajo en Namiquipa, en el estado de Chihuahua State, en la última masacre para retar a la apretada de clavijas militar del presidente Felipe Calderón sobre la violencia de los carteles de la droga. El asesinato ocurrió e mism día que los carteles colgaron mantas en la ciudad fronteriza de Ciudad Juárez , culpando a Meixueiro y al procurador de justicia del estado por el arresto de 25 pistoleros del cartel, durante el mes pasado

    http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/200...=Mexico&st=cse

  • #2
    Re: Comes Caca: La ofensiva Tet en la guerra contra las drogas en México

    Algunos comentarios ( a quienes le interesen, pues que los traduzca…)

    It is not the “will of the people” that does the fighting against the Drug cartels. It is not determination that of everyday citizens that leads to tips. It is money that fuel the arrests. And it is money that also fuels the assassinations of federales. Yet the Mexican banking system does not help “follow the money” investigations by improving their real time record transactions or even noting large transfers of everyday citizens. That the US knows how much money is sent to Mexico everyday has been reported elsewhere. The fact that the federales can’t tell you who got it says volumes.

    The Mexico Govt is still incompetent in it upper ranks. When you have a strike in a region, you should also have a supporting set of actions for your own people. This latest incident sounds like the federales went on with their off duty lives oblivious to the incipient carnage.

    — VultureTX


    2.

    July 16, 2009

    8:40 am

    I don’t blame the Mexican people for being skeptical about their government’s success in winning the drug war. As long as there are huge profits to be made from feeding the U.S. drug habit, the drug cartels will continue battling law enforcement to protect them. It’s really ironic when you think that more than 12,000 Mexicans have lost their lives in a drug war fueled by U.S. drug consumption and fought by the cartels with guns obtained in the U.S. Certainly not a recipe for good neighbor relations.

    Our principal focus has been on keeping the war from spilling over the border into the U.S. In fact, the Mexican drug war started here and became a Mexican problem because of U.S. drug policies and enforcement practices.

    This is a war that can’t be won, there are only degrees of losing……………..As usual, the people are ahead of the politicians. They see the similarities between the current violence in their cities as a result of drug prohibition and the violence in the U.S. gangster movies they grew up watching when the illicit substance was alcohol. In the end, the violence only diminished when prohibition was ended. The question is: how many more lives will be lost before the Mexican people say enough and demand an end to a war that’s really become more of a crusade? And more importantly - will we let them?

    — Deborah Small

    July 16, 2009

    8:51 am

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    The hope is that the “war” will reduce recruiting into the drug cartels. When Calderon is NOT testing their muscle, young people are drawn to a “risk free” power club.

    Conversely, when drug lords are captured, the rivalries that break out between other gangs and middle-management create a very uncertain environment for a 19 year old to be drawn into. I’d suppose that the people attracted to join the organizations during a confrontation would be brash and less thoughtful and intelligent.

    The “lead or gold?” question (do you accept my gold - bribe, or you prefer my bullet - lead?) is the horrible cancer in Mexico. During a crackdown, it is harder to make the case because there is lead flying around everywhere and the offerer loses some of his panache.

    The most important segment of Mexican political opinion is the mothers and grandmothers, who advise their young sons which fields to go into, which cities to avoid. Calderon is on the one hand leveraging the mothers influence to steer young talent away from the gangs, but is politically exposed because the same vote will tilt away from his party if the mothers feel he’s creating a more dangerous environment for their children.

    America needs to support Mothers in Mexico.

    — Robin Ingenthron

    July 16, 2009

    8:54 am

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    at some point the struggle for control will stabilize, but the viciousness of the murderous rot is a heart of darkness that appears to be spreading.

    we are our brother’s/neighbor’s keeper. we need to think.

    — chris hauser

    5.

    July 16, 2009

    9:12 am

    The only solution is to either (a) legalize or (b) completely eradicate drug consumption in the U.S.

    Now, which do you think is the easier, more feasible route?

    — Jen

    6.

    July 16, 2009

    9:16 am

    too bad drugs are illegal, their would be so much less senseless violence and pointless incarceration.

    7.

    July 16, 2009

    9:23 am

    This violence against decent cops and soldiers in Mexico is one of the reasons it is essential that supporters of the war on marijuana clarify why it is appropriate that alcohol and cannabis users are treated so extremely differently. Cannabis rarely kills- too bad we can’t say the same about alcohol or the war on cannabis. So remind me again what the point is in trying to force people to use alcohol to get a chemical high.

    — newageblues

    8.

    July 16, 2009

    9:35 am

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    Why can someone focus on the addicts.If there is no demand then there will no supply.

    The farmers are not addicts.Gun sales manufactured in the U.S contributes to failed states such as Mexico,Columbia and other Asian countries.

    Every bullet that is produced denies a child his/her daily meal.

    — benny

    July 16, 2009

    9:41 am

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    Save lives, decriminalize.

    — James McMahon

    10.

    July 16, 2009

    9:43 am

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    The Tet analogy is rather unfortunate, both because of the difference in scale, as well as level of violence. Beyond the fact that these actions were apparently “coordinated”, in no way, does this situation resemble Tet and Gomez Leyva should have done his homework on this.

    — Stephen Austin

    11.

    July 16, 2009

    9:44 am

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    This is not a war the Mexican government can loose. This is a fight for its’ very survival. If they fail to bring the drug dealers to heel, the whole apparatus of the state will effectively collapse under the weight of lawlessness, corruption, and fear of the common citizen. While some level of criminality can be expected in all societies, the levels of corruption and impunity in Mexico are too high.

    The US bears much responsibility as the supplier of funds and guns to the criminals in this war, But in the end this is about Mexicans. It is the Mexican people and their elective representatives that must do what is necessary to enforce the rule of law. To put criminals and the gangs they lead in their place.

    — GodzillaDeTukwilla

    Continúa...

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    • #3
      Re: Comes Caca: La ofensiva Tet en la guerra contra las drogas en México

      12.

      July 16, 2009

      9:50 am

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      This violence is a direct result of our assine war on drugs. Legalize, regulate, and tax drugs, and the cartels’ cash flow dries up. Then we can stop wasting money on locking up drug users, and we can start collecting taxes on the sale of drugs.

      Don’t get me wrong, drug use can be a serious problem. But it is a public health problem, not a criminal justice problem.

      Didn’t we learn anything from prohibition the first time around?

      — dude

      13.

      July 16, 2009

      9:56 am

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      And yet the single most effective weapon, one that would end this war instantly, isn’t being used because of a puritan morality that presumes one person may dictate to another what he can put in his body — the final responsibility for all these deaths sits with those who insist on continuing the war on drugs. Legalize the stuff and drive the cartels out of business for good.

      — Boldizar

      14.

      July 16, 2009

      9:58 am

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      I am a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, we are an international organization of current and retired police, prosecutors and judges. (http://www.leap.cc) We are calling for an end to the drug war which will immediately derail the barbarous cartels in Mexico as well as take away $100,000,000 each year from the Taleban and eliminate the reason for which most of the violent gangs exist for.

      In doing so, we will take destroy the black market in drugs which currently makes it easy to entice our children to lives of crime and or addiction. By ending drug prohibition we will basically end drug overdose deaths, reduce the number of AIDS and Hep C and empty 50% of our prison beds now filled with low level drug users and sellers.

      At a cost of $69 billion dollars per year, the US is now the wolrds leading jailer in attempting to stop the flow of drugs. The cartels laugh at our attempts because with every dollar we spend to stop the flow they make ten dollars by continuing the flow.

      What the US needs to do is to abandon the UN convention on drugs and insist that the rest of the world do the same. We must embrace common sense, logic and reality itself.

      Otherwise, the terrorists, cartels and gangs will make continue making their billions and laugh at our “morals” all the way to the bank.

      — Dean

      15.

      July 16, 2009


      9:59 am

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      When will it dawn on people that the collateral damage of the “War on Drugs” is greater than the benefit? Don’t take my word for it–visit Law Enforcement Against Prohibition:

      http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

      — Alice

      16.

      July 16, 2009

      10:05 am

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      End the ‘War on Drugs’ a simple person asks? No, and especially not now, when only the execs are making money.

      You see, Billy, the ‘War on Drugs,’ like the ‘Department of Homeland Insecurity,’ define their own missions, have their political, financial, and social backers, rely on the marketing of fear, and would fade in to obscurity without the strange symbiotic relationship that evolves between the ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys.’

      Every enforcement agency has its ‘mission,’ and not one of those agencies has shrunk, ever. They seem pretty much recession proof. The FBI, the Coast Guard, the hundreds of local police departments, prison builders and prison employees, and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of jobs depend on the enforcement, and expansion, of ‘drug laws.’

      And, who, more than the ‘good guys,’ NEEDS drug laws to remain on the books?

      Yes, Billy, that’s correct. The ‘bad guys’ need drugs to be illegal; if drugs were legal then the profits would vanish overnight.

      Just think what would happen to commercialized rap music. And so-called ‘thug-culture.’ The bank accounts of gun-industry executives would be diminished; the good guys wouldn’t be spending thousands of dollars on uniforms, batons, hand-cuffs, ‘tasers,’ bullet-resistant vests, armoured pick-up trucks, promotions, pensions.

      And the bad guys? Whew!

      No guns. No armoured Lincoln Navigators. No vast profits from ‘in prison’ drug dealing networks (facilitated, yes, Billy, by your cousin, Mac), no thug culture.

      In short, on both sides of virtually ever national border on the planet, drugs generate money, jobs, pensions for an unbelievably extensive network of people.

      I’m not arguing that drugs are ‘good,’ but then we have managed to manage a vast array of other threats to health and well-being; high-fructose sweeteners probably kill more people than ‘drugs,’ but they’re not as flashy on the news.

      What I am arguing is that making, and keeping, drugs illegal has an array of consequences not originally (I think, maybe) intended. But if you really want to put terrorists out of business, take the money out of drugs. If you want to stop killing Mexican (or American, or Armenian) civilians, stop the prohibition on drugs. If you want to reduce the percentage of the population in prison (and the U.S. has the highest rate in the world) change the drug laws.

      — Urb Anwriter

      17.

      July 16, 2009


      10:08 am

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      The drug policy in the USA is absolutle verification that government leadership often does more harm than good. There are so many numersous benefits to legalizing then regulating drug use that the space is not available in this comment section.

      We need to end this insanity now!

      — Bill

      18.

      July 16, 2009

      10:16 am

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      Tet turned into a victory for the US and South Vietnam. The war was nearly won after we relearned how to do counterinsurgency. Then we cut and ran, leaving the South Vietnamese and Cambodians (read today’s op-ed by a Cambodian refugee) to their fate.

      The drug war cannot be won, because there will always be a demand for these substances. However, it can be replaced by peace if we would legalize, regulate and tax them. There has been no alcohol war since the end of Prohibition let legal purveyors displace the bootleggers. No one dies of bad liquor (contaminated with wood alcohol) either, though it is still possible to drink oneself to death.

      — Jonathan Katz

      19.

      July 16, 2009

      10:16 am

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      I’m sorry, but how can officers be “off-duty” in the midst of a war?


      If the Mexican government doesn’t understand that they are in a war in which they can’t do things as they customarily have, I’d expect that this will continue for decades and that the nation state of Mexico is a failed state indeed.

      Ther can be no going home to the family, ther can be no “off-duty”, there can be no leaving garrison, unless on patrol. It’s a war!

      — musachi

      20.

      July 16, 2009

      10:17 am

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      Basing your report on some notorious colleague’s is WAY risky, Bob. Your ‘respected Mexican columnist’ is a notoriously bilious and slanted pen-for-hire for a right wing newspaper devoted to smashing the credibility of the leftist candidate whose victory was swindled by the powers that be. I wonder what your qualificationes are for reporting on Mexican politics, but it would surely do you and your readers some good to walk out of your office and contact reality for a while. There is only ONE independent writer on the pages of that sorry excuse for a newspaper, and her name is Marcela Gomez Zalce. Oh, by the way, I’m not just a reader, but an active colleague… of her, not sure if yours…

      LEDE BLOG REPLY: Your comment is not entirely clear, and since you are using a pen name it is not easy to assess your own credibility as a journalist, but this is not a report on Mexican politics, it is a blog post about what has been written on the recent phase of the drug war. Being a blog, or “Web log,” we point out and link to other reports on the Web without necessarily endorsing them — and the post above clearly states that this characterization of the attacks was the opinion of one columnist. You amy disagree, but that does not make pointing out that the statement was made somehow incorrect.

      — Guillermo Randolfo Hearst

      continúa....

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      • #4
        Re: Comes Caca: La ofensiva Tet en la guerra contra las drogas en México

        21.

        July 16, 2009

        10:44 am

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        I think poster #16 is right about the eerie symbiosis between law enforcement/corporate security interests and the purveyors of illegal drugs. The extent to which the socio-political elements that have promoted “just say no” and “sexual abstinence” as panaceas for our worst social ills are conscious abettors of this unholy interrelationship may be debatable. What is not debatable is that so long as these elements are defining what is and what is not morally acceptable behavior according to their own narrow agenda, that symbiosis will never be disrupted.

        — calhouri

        22.

        July 16, 2009

        10:46 am

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        Prohibition all over again. We just don’t learn from our mistakes.

        America incarcerates more people than any nation on earth, and over 60% of all prison and jail inmates are jailed for drug related crimes. Over $60 billion per year. All these lost lives. And yet those who oppose legalizing drugs say that it will destroy our society and talk of the dangers of drugs. Sure, hard drugs are dangerous, but that can’t possibly cause more deaths and damage than the effects of our current laws. Currently the biggest risk in doing drugs is getting caught.

        It makes me sad to see the United States so entrenched in its ways, when there are alternative solutions to this war on drugs that continues to cost so many lives - lives lost to gun battles, and lives lost to prison time.

        Drug abuse, like traffic violations, alcoholism, obesity, and other such things, are something we need to address as a society. However, our current strategy of war, total prohibition and prison time is not working.

        — Scott Moore

        23.

        July 16, 2009

        10:51 am

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        We can decriminalize pot because it is so widespread that illegality is pointless.

        Heroin addicts can live more or less functional lives on maintenance doses. Many businesses now have “lactation rooms” for nursing mothers; perhaps those rooms could do double duty as shooting galleries for addicted employees if that is what our society wants.

        Cocaine and meth cannot be legalized. They destroy brain cells. Their users are effectively out of control. If coke and meth were legal, there would be no such thing as a “recreational” user; they would all be compulsive users. It’s the relative scarcity that modulates their use.

        — Paul Cometx

        24.

        July 16, 2009

        10:55 am

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        Repeal NAFTA, close the border with Mexico, and be prepared to take real civil and military action to keep it closed.

        There’s two sides to the drug problem - supply and demand. We have a tough enough time curbing demand in this country, and we have no chance to stop the supply in mexico - but it has to get here. Crush the transport system, freeze the cash by blocking banks and/or remittances, lock the border, and wait for the cartels to self-destruct.

        — Minuteman

        25.

        July 16, 2009

        11:05 am

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        @#3

        Not to be picky or pedantic, but the evocative phrase you quote is not “gold or lead”, it’s “plata o plomo”, that is “SILVER (plata) or lead (plomo).


        — jackl2400

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