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Go to http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com and read articles and comments from other Americans on what they’ve witnessed in their communities around the country. While most of the population of California is now ILLEGAL, the problems, costs, assault to our culture by Mexico is EVERYWHERE. copy and pass it to your friends.
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“Where there’s a Mexican, there’s Mexico!” Calderon… and ain’t it so!
EVERY INCH OF MEXICO IS CORRUPT! AND THEY ARE STILL RANTING THAT IT’S ALL AMERICA’S FAULT, EVEN AFTER WE’VE PERMITTED 38 MILLION OF THEM OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS!
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HOW MANY, MANY TIMES HAVE WE READ ABOUT MEXICAN DRUG GANGS WALKING RIGHT OUT OF MEXICAN PRISON AND INTO WAITING LIMOUSINES?!?
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“In Pascual’s defense, I must say that after nearly a year here in Mexico I, too, am rather astonished by how infrequently Mexico’s army actually engages gangsters in real shoot’em-ups. Losing only 300 soldiers in this confrontation, which has cost more than 35,000 lives, means someone isn’t fighting as hard as they could, in my estimation.”
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Carlos Pascual, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, wobbles on a tightrope
Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PST
It has become eminently clear in the past 10 days that Mexican President Felipe Calderon neither likes nor trusts U.S. ambassador Carlos Pascual.
Calderon has said so twice now in public.
First came a lengthy interview in El Universal Feb. 22 in which Calderon fired a verbal mortar blast, saying Pascual suffers from “ignorance.” Calderon apparently referred to this Wikileaks cable signed by Pascual that discusses a lack of coordination between Mexican agencies and ministries in fighting organized crime.
“It speaks of lack of coordination between our agencies,” Calderon told El Universal. “I have no reason to tell him how many times I meet with my security cabinet. It’s none of his business. But his ignorance ends up in a distortion of what happens in Mexico, and it affects and causes annoyance on our team.”
Pascual, of course, didn’t respond in public to the criticism. That's him in the photo.
By several accounts, when Calderon met with President Obama a few hours ago in the White House, Pascual was there in the room.
This morning, Calderon blasted away again at Pascual in a meeting with reporters and editors at the Washington Post. He said that tensions over the Wikileaks cable had “risen so dramatically that he could no longer work with the American ambassador in his country,” this Post story says.
Here’s more from the Post article:
"It's difficult if suddenly you are seeing the courage of the army [questioned]. For instance, they have lost probably 300 soldiers ... and suddenly somebody in the American embassy, they [say] the Mexican soldiers aren't brave enough," Calderon told Washington Post reporters and editors.
"Or you decide to play the game that they are not coordinated enough, and suddenly start to bring information to one agency and not to the other and try to get them to compete."
Calderon's remark appeared to be a reference to a cable signed by Ambassador Carlos Pascual that described how the Mexican navy captured a major trafficker after U.S. officials gave them information that the Mexican army had not acted upon.
"We have an expression in Mexico, which says, 'Don't help me, compadre,'" Calderon said sarcastically, using the Spanish word for a close friend.
Asked whether he could continue to work with the U.S. ambassador, the Mexican leader said, "That is a question that maybe I will talk [about] with President Obama."
In Pascual’s defense, I must say that after nearly a year here in Mexico I, too, am rather astonished by how infrequently Mexico’s army actually engages gangsters in real shoot’em-ups. Losing only 300 soldiers in this confrontation, which has cost more than 35,000 lives, means someone isn’t fighting as hard as they could, in my estimation.
So what do Calderon’s outbursts mean? Perhaps he’s under pressure from the army in ways that are not public. The U.S. government clearly favors the Mexican navy, a smaller but scrappier force that has chalked up numerous victories against the bad guys. Certainly, the army is not the only entity within the Mexican government that fares poorly in Wikileaks cables. Genaro Garcia Luna, the former federal police officer and intelligence official who is now Secretary of Public Security, a Cabinet-level position, also comes out poorly.
It’s not just Wikileaks that casts doubt on Garcia Luna either. A book released last fall by journalist Anabel Hernandez called Los Senores del Narco links Garcia Luna to a circle of corrupt officials, some of whom favor the powerful Sinaloa Cartel. Despite this odor, Calderon keeps Garcia Luna on. Some observers I talk to portray Garcia Luna in a sinister light, casting him in a role similar to that of Vladimiro Montesinos, the Rasputin like intelligence chief of Alberto Fujimori, the jailed former president of Peru.
Returning to Pascual’s fate, his situation presents a dilemma to Hillary Clinton at Foggy Bottom. Even if Pascual’s cables are accurate depictions of the situation inside the Calderon administration, keeping him clearly may hurt important ties with Calderon. Throwing him under the bus, on the other hand, could send a signal to other foreign leaders that if they scream loud enough, they can get rid of a U.S. ambassador doing his job capably.
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COMMENT FROM OBSERVER31 – WASHINGTON POST:
What chutzpah from Calderon !!! (I would have used a stronger work, but my comment would have gotten deleted ). Corruption everywhere, especially in the police, government, and amongst politicians, and the problem is Wikileaks, he says !
And what a stupid idea to allow Mexican truckers into the country ! Great way to facilitate the flow of illegal drugs (and people) into the U.S., which will result in the spread of organized crime in this country.
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RCNTN POSTS:
Here is a soluation to Calderons problem we bring home our soilders fro the middle east and place them along the entire length of the Mexican border.With orders to kill any one attempting to cross then we stop all mail and money transfers from the US to Mexico. All hispanic s have 10 days to provide proof of citizenship or become prisoners until they can be returned to Mexico. This should stop the flow of guns south and drugs north and rid our country of the illegals Problem solved
3/4/2011 10:33:35 AM
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RALPHINPHNX POSTS:
So,did anyone else notice in that picture of Comrade White House Butler & Messiah Barack Hussein Obama and the Head Mexican
Thug Felipe Calderon.that Obama appears to
getting ready to bow deeply and kiss Calderon rear end now then? Obama worst US
President ever! So,why hasn't Congress done it's duty and Impeached Obama by now?
Time to Deport White House Butler Obama
to Mexico along with Obama's 40 Milion
Undocumented Democrat Illegal Alien Voters
and Secure the Border! Deport all Illegal
Alien,starting with the one from Kenya in
the White House and Jail All Illegal Alien
Employers here and now! Vote all Incumbents Democrat & Republican Out in
2012 and 2014! Just Say NO to Obama!
3/4/2011 10:13:57 AM
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BETHG1841 POSTS:
magnifco1000 wrote:
Thank you Wikileaks! For years, Mexico has been doing nothing and playing charades with the US government. The diplomatic niceties have only masked the lawlessness and lack of control on the border. All Wikileaks is doing is pointing out the truth. Isn't this better then the lies of "ever improving cooperation," and the other poppycock we keep hearing about Mexico?
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Please. Do not place Assange in the hero category. Do you really think that he released documents to promote world peace? There is no compassion or
regret for the lives that he has put at risk.
It's all about power and world recognition. Personal gain was his only motive.
Make no mistake about it. Calderon isn't here to help repair damages between our countries. He's here for more funding. How many Mexican officials are lining their pockets with U.S. taxpayer dollars and blood money from the cartels?
Why wouldn't WaPo write a real story on this critical issue. The cartels have pushed their ownership across the border. They are forcing landowners off their land with death threats. Will the federal government finally acknowledge the seriousness of the problem and close the borders when the Mexican flag is raised in the state capitals?
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Calderon: WikiLeaks caused severe damage to U.S.-Mexico relations
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 3, 2011; 9:49 PM
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Thursday that the release of State Department cables criticizing Mexico's anti-drug fight had caused "severe damage" to its relationship with the United States and suggested that tensions had risen so dramatically that he could no longer work with the American ambassador in his country.
Calderon's comments were the strongest to date on the secret cables distributed by WikiLeaks, which have threatened to disrupt what both sides have hailed as increasingly close cooperation against Mexico's violent drug gangs.
The Mexican president, at the start of a one-day visit to Washington, suggested that the release of the cables had caused turmoil on his national security team. He took aim at one U.S. cable that said that Mexican military officials had "risk-averse habits."
"It's difficult if suddenly you are seeing the courage of the army [questioned]. For instance, they have lost probably 300 soldiers ... and suddenly somebody in the American embassy, they [say] the Mexican soldiers aren't brave enough," Calderon told Washington Post reporters and editors.
"Or you decide to play the game that they are not coordinated enough, and suddenly start to bring information to one agency and not to the other and try to get them to compete."
Calderon's remark appeared to be a reference to a cable signed by Ambassador Carlos Pascual that described how the Mexican navy captured a major trafficker after U.S. officials gave them information that the Mexican army had not acted upon.
"We have an expression in Mexico, which says, 'Don't help me, compadre,'" Calderon said sarcastically, using the Spanish word for a close friend.
Asked whether he could continue to work with the U.S. ambassador, the Mexican leader said, "That is a question that maybe I will talk [about] with President Obama." The two leaders were scheduled to meet at midday.
Pressed on whether he had lost confidence in Pascual, Calderon paused and then said, "It's difficult to build and it's easy to lose."
U.S. officials have defended Pascual's work and said he would attend the meeting Thursday between Calderon and Obama.
Pascual and the embassy in Mexico are "doing tremendous work to advance U.S. national interests and to support our Mexican partners in - both in the security space but [also] across the full range of the relationship," a senior U.S. official said in a conference call with reporters on the eve of the visit. He spoke under ground rules of anonymity.
If Pascual was recalled, he would be the most prominent U.S. casualty of the WikiLeaks scandal. Only one American ambassador has had to leave the country where he was based because of the cables - Ambassador Gene Cretz, who took an extended break from Libya before the anti-government demonstrations erupted there.
Pascual did not answer an e-mail seeking comment.
Calderon is under intense pressure to curb violence that has soared since he unleashed the Mexican army against powerful drug-trafficking gangs. Over 35,000 Mexicans have been killed in drug-related violence during the past four years.
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