President Felipe Calderon has deployed thousands of soldiers and federal police to hotspots across Mexico, where cartel violence has killed more than 300 people this year and left more than 2,500 dead in 2007.
Cancun, best known for its mass of towering hotels crammed along a narrow strip of white beaches, has experienced shooting between drug hitmen and police in recent months.
The city is Gulf Cartel territory,
BY THE WAY, THIS IS YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK VIA BLESSING FROM BUSH. AKA BUSH PUT CALDERON ON OUR PAYROLL. Screw Mexico, we don't wanna go!
2007 Yet the trade continues to flourish. A senior Mexican justice department official said over the weekend that U.S. proceeds from the drug trade pump some $10 billion a year annually into the Mexican economy, nearly half as much as the country's oil exports. Between remittance flowing out of the US and the drug trade business. Mexico must be one hell of a wealthy country. Now why do we have so many of their people illegally here BIRTHING, RECEIVING SOCIAL SERVICES AND TAKING OUR JOBS again?
B.S. AND NAFTA! Feeling optimistic yet?
Oh, were we being hateful with facts didn't think so.