[Questionmark]

Yup, Mexico is dead last in reading, math, and science among OECD countries and has had ~30k deaths in the last three years related to the ongoing civil war between drug cartels and the federal government, but they're still doing great!

http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/04/1 ... -rankings/

http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war

[Revi]

That's really sad, because they have an amazing techincal school in Monterrey, and lots of really smart people in Mexico. They do a lot of manufacturing. It's too bad that the country is turning into such a mess again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterrey_ ... _Education

I love the place, but I'm not going to take a trip to Northern Mexico with the situation like it is nowadays.

[KingM]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'Y')up, Mexico is dead last in reading, math, and science among OECD countries and has had ~30k deaths in the last three years related to the ongoing civil war between drug cartels and the federal government, but they're still doing great!

[Questionmark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KingM', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'Y')up, Mexico is dead last in reading, math, and science among OECD countries and has had ~30k deaths in the last three years related to the ongoing civil war between drug cartels and the federal government, but they're still doing great!

[KingM]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', '
')I don't gamble, so no thanks.

[Questionmark]

Whatever, it's clear you're in denial due to some personal attachment to Mexico. The U.S. doesn't have federal troops locked in combat within our borders, even in the worst parts of the country.

[Revi]

In a lot of ways Mexico is less likely to collapse than the US. The average person in Mexico uses far less gasoline than the average person here. They still have a lot of local food systems and they know how to take a bus.

Mexico has had problems forever. It seems to be holding up okay. I just read that some Mexican banks don't want to accept dollars for bank deposits. I guess they consider other currencies to be safer.

Pobre Mexico, tan lejos de dios, y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.

[KingM]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'W')hatever, it's clear you're in denial due to some personal attachment to Mexico.

[Revi]

I'm willing to admit a personal attatchment to Mexico. I lived in Guatemala for 2 years, and I have been to Mexico at least three times.

There I feel better.

[Questionmark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KingM', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'W')hatever, it's clear you're in denial due to some personal attachment to Mexico.

[KingM]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'I')'m willing to admit a personal attatchment to Mexico. I lived in Guatemala for 2 years, and I have been to Mexico at least three times.

There I feel better.

[Revi]

Guatemala had a military dictatorship when I was there. We came into the capital one time right in the middle of a coup. There were tanks parked in front of the national palace, sandbags, machine guns. The radio was announcing the new dictator and we asked someone in a store. They replied that it was just another coup.

Even through all that mess the country didn't cease to exist. Nobody in Guatemala really had any control over what was going on. That's why I don't think Mexico is going to cease to exist. It isn't turning into Somalia or something. Mexico is a big country, and has lots of places in it that are pretty mellow. The Districto Federal won't allow the drug trafficers to take over.

Now northern Mexico is a different story. They may be the defacto government in Juarez before long. If they keep trying to steal the teachers Christmas bonuses and threatening kids they are liable to lose any base of support they might have had. They aren't going to win hearts and minds, that's for sure.

[babystrangeloop]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Pemex Posts 4th-Quarter Loss on Higher Taxes and Lagging Output
Bloomberg / February 28, 2012

Pemex’s loss in the fourth quarter widened slightly to 23.8 billion pesos ($1.8 billion) from 23.6 billion pesos in the year-earlier period, the Mexico City-based company said yesterday in a filing to the Mexican stock exchange.

While Pemex tax payments rose 44 percent to 243.5 billion pesos, the Mexican export crude mix price climbed 34 percent to average $104.31 a barrel in the three months ended on Dec. 31. That’s 13 cents below its highest quarterly average reached in the second quarter of 2008. Crude output from the state-owned company fell 1 percent to 2.55 million barrels a day, the lowest level since 1990.

[rangerone314]

If the US gave 2 sh*ts about Mexico, we'd either legalize drugs or systematically line up a few million drug addicts and drug users against walls and chain gun them to death.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'Y')up, Mexico is dead last in reading, math, and science among OECD countries and has had ~30k deaths in the last three years related to the ongoing civil war between drug cartels and the federal government, but they're still doing great!

http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/04/1 ... -rankings/

http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KingM', 'A')nd yet through all of this crap, the country never broke apart. Why now, with Mexico happier, healthier, wealthier, more educated, and more democratic than ever before in its history do you think it will break apart? That simply doesn't make sense.

[babystrangeloop]

An article in Bloomberg just said that the richest man in the world is now

Carlos Slim

The Mexican telecommunications tycoon has a net worth of $68.5 billion, according to Bloomberg.

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��The Committee to Protect Journalists honoured Javier Valdez Cárdenas with an International Press Freedom Award in 2011 to recognise his bravery and uncompromising journalism in the face of threats”, said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon.

The mourning and protests followed a particularly deadly day for the media in Mexico, where warring drug cartels have made it one of the most unsafe countries to be a journalist.

Award-winning reporter Javier Valdez has been shot dead in the north-western state of Sinaloa.

The state is home to one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels.

The front pages of major newspapers and journalists demonstrating in the center of the capital carried pictures of Javier Valdez, 50, who was shot dead in broad daylight on Monday in northwestern Sinaloa state.

“This isn’t just us being killed as people, this is a silencing of those who talk”, freelance journalist Paula Monaco said at the protest.

A group of reporters said last weekend a large group, including children, carrying semi-automatic weapons took their equipment while they covered unrest in the state of Guerrero.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and the U.S. ambassador to Mexico condemned Valdez’s killing.

“I asked him several times whether he was afraid”, Rafael said of his brother’s journalism career.

Guzman is now in jail awaiting trial in the United States. He reported for the Mexican newspaper La Jornada (Spanish.) He was also a valuable source for global reporters trying to piece together the debacle that is Mexico today.

At the launch of his book in 2016, Valdez had said, “Being a journalist is like being on a blacklist”.

Like Breach, Valdez dug deep into delicate matters including narco-trafficking and political corruption.

But the killing fanned a wave of anger at the authorities, with rights groups saying corrupt officials are preventing journalists’ killers from being punished.

Despite some judicial efforts, “a lack of political will to end impunity exposes Mexico as one of the most risky countries in the world for journalists”.

Valdez, who wrote a book about the dangers of covering drug cartels and the dirty politicians associated with them, knew the risks of his profession all too well.

Last Wednesday, the federal Attorney General’s Office replaced the head of its division responsible for investigating journalist killings.

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Questionmark', 'W')hatever, it's clear you're in denial due to some personal attachment to Mexico. The U.S. doesn't have federal troops locked in combat within our borders, even in the worst parts of the country.

[Revi]

Pobre Mexico, tan lejos de dios, y tan cerca a los Estados Unidos...