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MMC
07-02-2012, 06:42 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote count handed a victory to Enrique Pena Nieto, whose party was long accused of ruling the country through corruption and patronage.

Pena Nieto, who sought to cast himself as the leader of a new PRI, called his victory "a fiesta of democracy."

"There is no return to the past," said the youthful, 45-year-old who is married to a soap opera star. "You have given our party a second chance and we will deliver results."

He promised a government that would be democratic, modern and open to criticism. He pledged to fight organized crime and said there would be no pacts with criminals.....snip~

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-returns-former-ruling-party-power-052201748.html
Associated Press – 5 hrs ago<<<<<

According to what I am hearing.....Nieto is still saying he will work with the US. That he will not make deals with the cartels is the difference most are citing. How do you think it will affect US relations with Mexico now? Think this changes anything up with the Border and Immigration with Mexico? What about the so called War on Drugs? What other changes will come from putting back into Power a government that was accused of Corruption from the Time they won Power the first time round?

patrickt
07-02-2012, 06:59 AM
In the past, the PRI openly controlled the presidency, the legislature, and the Supreme Court. You know, like Democrats. In fact, the PRI is like a slightly more successful Democrat Party. So, if it turns uot Pena does want the PRI to be different, perhaps they'll show the Democrat Party in the U.S. a way to go.

MMC
07-02-2012, 07:20 AM
In the past, the PRI openly controlled the presidency, the legislature, and the Supreme Court. You know, like Democrats. In fact, the PRI is like a slightly more successful Democrat Party. So, if it turns uot Pena does want the PRI to be different, perhaps they'll show the Democrat Party in the U.S. a way to go.


Morning Patrickt.....one thing is for certain it will defiantely change up how Obama will have to deal with Mexico. Unless he had some type of inside Scoop that Nieto was going to win.

MMC
07-02-2012, 10:24 AM
Heya MC.....Check it out bro. :wink:

roadmaster
07-02-2012, 01:25 PM
I read this the other day. It's very concerning and to be honest I don't think the US ever had a war on drugs. Our border control has less rights than the ones coming here illegal. I had a cousin that was an undercover drug enforcement agent near the border. He is not alive now but get to good at your job and I won't go into detail but he could tell some stories that were disturbing.

MMC
07-02-2012, 02:21 PM
I think Obama will have a harder time in dealing with Nieto.

MMC
07-02-2012, 10:36 PM
I read this the other day. It's very concerning and to be honest I don't think the US ever had a war on drugs. Our border control has less rights than the ones coming here illegal. I had a cousin that was an undercover drug enforcement agent near the border. He is not alive now but get to good at your job and I won't go into detail but he could tell some stories that were disturbing.

Just think how much money could be saved by adopting a new game plan as their War on Drugs.....is a complete failure. Don't look like to many are concerned about Mexico tho.

As usual the Garbage out of the ME takes precedent.

waltky
11-02-2012, 09:44 PM
Cartel rules in Michoacan...
:angry:
Gang rules 6 years after start of Mexico drug war
Nov 2,`12 -- Forest-camouflaged pickups roared to life as the Mexican soldiers pulled on their black masks and hoisted their Heckler & Koch G3 assault rifles.


The three-truck convoy pulled out of the base to patrol the rugged, mountainous region of the western state of Michoacan, when a raspy voice burst out of an unencrypted radio inside one of the cabs: "Three R's, 53." Three army vehicles, headed your way.

It wasn't a soldier's voice. The radio had picked up a call from the Knights Templar, a quasi-religious drug cartel that controls the area and most of the state. Its web of spies monitors the movements of the military and police around the clock. The gang's members not only live off methamphetamine and marijuana smuggling and extortion, they maintain country roads, control the local economy and act as private debt collectors for citizens frustrated with the courts, soldiers say. "Because they're vigilant and well-organized they roll around here with a lot of ease," said Lt. Col. Julices Gonzalez Calzada, the leader of the patrol.

Felipe Calderon launched his presidency in December 2006 by sending the army to Michoacan, his home state, to battle organized crime that he said threatened to expand from drug trafficking to controlling civil society. His administration says it has debilitated many of the cartels with a leadership-focused offensive that has killed or captured 25 of the country's 37 most-wanted men.

But he has failed to stop drug cartels from morphing into mafias infiltrating society in the sun-seared Tierra Caliente, or Hot Country, a region named for its steamy weather, but now also too hot with gang activity for many to live and work safely. The government annihilated the leadership of one previous cartel, La Familia Michoacana, but a splinter group, the Knights Templar, moved in to take control. Rank-and-file soldiers say they feel largely powerless in the face of an enemy that hides among the population. They say whenever they make strategic strikes, the gang's professional-grade infrastructure is replaced almost as fast as it's taken down. Now the two sides largely co-exist.

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