Mexico Drug War becoming fact

[Anthony_Scott]

AN IBD article that issues the same warning we have heard before:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArti...20893237619883

And it also says that paying lip service to making the border doesn't do anything.

Semper Fi, Carry On

[Double_Deuce]

Interestingly, I haven't really heard anything about the current financial crisis affecting Mexico in the news. That has to indicate how bad things are there when when a crisis of this magnitude doesn't seem to be making their situation any worse.

[Anthony_Scott]

You don't hear anything from the news that doesn't make the One look good or fit their "Blame America" narrative. The MSM is about as useful as a .22 against a tiger.

The news services on the internet has all the stories that the media SHOULD be covering but won't for the reasons cited above. My whole point of putting these news stories up is to show that our humble game is dead-on in many ways.

Semper Fi, Carry On

[Anthony_Scott]

Another aspect of the war down south: armored civilian vehicles and their producers seeing a 50% increase in demand, USAToday:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...violence_N.htm

Something else we could try to add to the game.

Semper Fi, Carry On

[cbreedon]

Originally Posted by cbreedon

I was bored, so I replaced the Green Flag with the Mexican one. Just Remove the "mexico" piece of the file names and replace the files in your Graphics directory.

And kids remember always to backup your files before playing with these.

I was playing a game using these flags and noticed that the victory flags are not centered. I copied the flags directly over the old flags in the shp file. Any idea why it would be offset?

[Skirmisher]

Double Deuce,

Check out this article,it sounds alot like your original drugwar text.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7941043.stm

[Double_Deuce]

Originally Posted by Skirmisher

Check out this article,it sounds alot like your original drugwar text.

I have read that over the last 6 years there have been about 150,000 desertions from the Mexican Army including sizable numbers of their Special Ops guys. That would make a sizable force for any military to have to deal with, especially if they received any decent training before deserting. I'd say the only reason it hasn't spilled over the border is that the US hasn't really hurt the drug trade business. If the US was to really crack down I bet we would see things getting ugly very quickly. I wonder America response to seeing our citizen's heads dumped on our own streets?


Found some more interesting stuff here: Police: U.S. teens were hit men for Mexican cartel

[Ramm]

Originally Posted by Anthony_Scott

It is one of my favourite campaigns and I have not even finished it yet. this news story grabbed my attention about a vigilante group in Juarez threatening to kill a criminal every 24 hours until order is restored:

www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11463340?_requestid=2679576

And this report from United States Joint Forces Command spells it out all too clearly:

http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storya...08/JOE2008.pdf

My point is that even our humble little game can predict the future sometimes.

Semper Fi, Carry On

Your first link is broken, it looks like a interesting story I'm sorry I can't read it

[Double_Deuce]

Originally Posted by Ramm

Your first link is broken, it looks like a interesting story I'm sorry I can't read it

Looks like they have Archived the story. Its here now:

ElPaso Times News Archives

BUT it'll now cost to access it.

[Anthony_Scott]

Nuts....

Sorry about that. I hadn't thought that they would archive it so rapidly.

Most of the good reports are actually coming out of Mexico herself and a really god site runs translations of the news stories:

http://m3report.wordpress.com/

And here is an interactive map tracing the violence in Mexico:

http://www.exonline.com.mx/diario/contenido/468598

Since I read, write, and speak spanish, I prefer to read the news directly form the countries involved, because as it has been said many times, things get lost in translation.

Semper Fi, Carry On