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In reply to the discussion: Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)We don't hold them accountable and our policies encourage and feed current problems.
The administrations silence on the recent events in Mexico speaks volumes about our complicity.
It's like asking your younger brother who only has one leg already and that you just ran over with your truck why the hell he doesn't get up and start walking.
It's so, so easy to just say Mexico should fix this. Apologies if you are offended, but your attitude is typical of the rich US in regards to it's poor brother to the south.
Perhaps it won't be solved at the US consumer level, but the attitude that "it's not our problem" just feeds this.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27726-with-40-presumed-killed-us-secret-manpower-in-mexico-s-drug-war-exposed
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/11/26/why_america_is_to_blame_for_mexico_carnage_and_corruption_pena_nieto_obama_ayotzinapa_disappeared
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/11/mexico-protests-usculpability.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-martinez-mexico-students-massacre-20141116-story.html