Lawlessness and the Boomerang Effect in Oaxaca

[Joanne98]

don’t think things are goin’ too good…

Given the wobbly dollar, would you think it clever of President Calderón of the sovereign nation of Mexico to privatize Mexico’s resources such as black gold, yellow gold, or even silver? How about water?

But that’s what’s being discussed in the February 9 edition of La Jornada. Chavez in Venezuela says he’ll refuse to sell oil to the USA if it doesn’t cease and desist in its economic attacks against Venezuela – ExxonMobil pursued a lawsuit against Venezuela, cheered on by the USA and Shell Oil (Netherlands owned).

But Chavez is no wimp, and he fights back.

In Mexico, on the other hand, there’s Calderón. The USA builds a steel wall claimed to be three meters inside the Mexico border, shoots Mexican citizens on the wrong side of it, and sends in NAFTA crops which undercut local growers. That’s ok. Canadians own the gold mines and expect the dollar to crumble. Mine stock-holders are heading for a gold rush; the gold is on Mexican lands. That’s ok. The mines’ excavation methods poison the local communities’ water and lands, but who doesn’t want ingots?

In a paid-for story placed in Noticias on February 12, Oaxaca’s governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) is quoted as praising the entry of new mining enterprises, and new employment opportunities.

Spain is doing damage with Iberdrola’s wind generators, which plant cement foundations in areas which used to have water. Local solidarity organizations claim that bribery of environmental agency officials in these situations is intense.

The firm hand of the national Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in its Spanish initials) vanished in 2000. The National Action Party (PAN, in its Spanish initials) successors did not gain a majority in either state governorships or in Congress. Needing PRI support to legitimize his contested election, Calderón chose to declare a “war on drugs,” that is, a war on organized crime instead of on individual criminals whose votes he might need. Organized crime won’t surrender. Calderon opened a hornets nest.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue50/article3003.html