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The murderous Aztec empire
Westerners have a tendency to idolize the pre-history of American civilization, painting the native Americans as a relatively peaceful, if technologically backwards people. An exhibit at the British Museum, however, disputes that interpretation. In...
Drug war victories only last so long...
This just goes to show you how shallow drug war victories really are:More than a dozen hit men carrying AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles burst into a house in eastern Mexico around midnight Monday, gunning down several relatives of 3rd Petty Officer Me...
Mexican cartels\' smuggling menu
I found an article from December 2006 by Stratfor* that had an interesting drug war menu. Most of the article is an arcane chronicle of rapid cartel succession, but it's also got a price list for smuggling goods through the southern border's major c...
Remittances up in these hard times
Two remittances-related blog posts popped up on my feed reader today. The first, from International Political Economy Zone, is about how, despite economists' expectations, remittances in the Philippines are still increasing. This post, from the Wor...
Clampdown on cocaine in Mexico yields violence in Canada
The LA Times gets it:Authorities trace the violence to the recent government crackdown on cocaine traffickers in Mexico, which has squeezed profit margins for cocaine north of the U.S. border.Canada's outlaw retailers are fighting to the death over m...
The myth of American guns in Mexico: debunked
Radley Balko at Reason's blog offers a corrective to the myth circulating recently that the vast majority of weapons used by drug cartels in Mexico come from America. Apparently not only is that not true, but it seems that a similar number of guns l...
Central America escapes the violence of the drug war, but not for long
Stratfor's been quite good in covering the American drug war emanating in Mexico and radiating outwards, and they've got a great article about the movement of the drug war into Central America. Essentially, way back in the day, Colombian cocaine wou...
Mexico's biggest drug lord: thanks for the drug war!
This is pretty funny, and would be embarrassing to the American govenrment if not for the fact that the mainstream media for sure won't cover it: the leader of one of Mexico's two biggest drug cartels thanking the American government for keeping recr...
Russia, the Mexican drug wars, and 9/11
Stratfor has a great article (you need to search for the title in Google and access it through there to see the whole article) on Russia's propensity to reestablish contact with the Soviet Union's old proxy groups, and begin to assert itself abroad m...
