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Open Question: I’m travelling to Cayo Coco Cuba, will my cell phone work and will i be able to text?
I live in Ontario and im going to Cayo Coco Cuba for vacation I was just wondering if my phone will work down there to text. I want it for safety in case i lose my friends at night and also to talk to people back a home.
Open Question: Would you go on vacation to Mexico right now, would you feel safe?
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A threat to our security at the border
February 8, 2009
Even as U.S. attention remains focused on Iran, Afghanistan and other distant spots, violence in Mexico, mostly related to the trade in illegal drugs, has risen sharply in recent years and likely spiraling out of control. While the violence entails battles between drug traffickers and Mexican military and police forces, it also involves turf fights among the various drug-trafficking organizations as they seek to control access to the lucrative U.S. market.
More than 5,300 people died in the fighting in 2008. With 18 people found shot dead in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, and another four in a neighboring state – on the property of the state-run oil company Pemex – in just one two-day period (Jan. 26-27), 2009 is off to an ugly start.
The carnage is now so bad that the U.S. State Department has issued travel alerts for Americans going to Mexico. One such alert warned that the battles in portions of northern Mexico are “the equivalent of military small-unit combat and have included the use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades.” U.S. tourism to cities on Mexico’s border with the United States, where the bloodshed has been the worst, has dropped sharply. Even the Marines at Camp Pendleton near San Diego are banned from spending leave time in Tijuana – because it is too dangerous.
And Mexico’s violence is spilling across the border into communities in the southwestern United States. Indeed, Mexican drug gangs now operate in numerous cities throughout the United States. Cartel enforcers have published lists of Americans, including police officers, who are targeted for assassination.
U.S. officials, alarmed at the growing power of the Mexican drug cartels, continue to pressure the government of Felipe Calderón to wage a vigorous anti-drug campaign. Calderón has responded by giving the army the lead role in efforts to eliminate the drug traffickers instead of relying on federal and local police forces, which have been thoroughly corrupted by drug money. In return, Washington is rewarding his government with the so-called Merida Initiative, a multibillion-dollar measure to aid the anti-trafficking campaign.
Despite occasional optimistic pronouncements coming out of both Washington and Mexico City, it is increasingly apparent that the drug gangs are winning the war. Los Zetas, the enforcement arm of the powerful and especially ruthless Gulf Cartel, openly sought recruits to their ranks, posting help-wanted signs and hanging a large banner across a major thoroughfare in Nuevo Laredo last spring. The banner read: “The Zetas want you, soldier or ex-soldier. We offer a good salary, food and benefits for your family.”
Traffickers have thoroughly penetrated Mexico’s government institutions – even the agencies that are supposed to be dedicated to battling the cartels. In recent weeks, prosecutors charged top officials in the Attorney General’s Office with being informers for the drug organizations. They allegedly received payments of $150,000 to $450,000 per month for information regarding surveillance targets and potential raids. Those sums are more than even high-level law enforcement personnel can make in several years – and lower-level personnel can make in several decades.
With such resources at their disposal, and with the U.S. and global demand for illegal drugs remaining robust, it is no wonder that the cartels are doing well.
Given Mexico’s increasingly precarious economic situation, the cartels’ power is likely to grow. Mexico is suffering badly from the economic recession. For the first time ever, financial remittances sent home from Mexicans working in the United States declined in 2008. As the already meager job prospects in Mexico shrink further, the drug cartels will be one group of employers willing and able to pay for new hires.
President Obama ought to put the drug violence in Mexico at the top of his list of national security priorities. While it is premature to describe Mexico as a full-blown failed state, as some experts have done, the situation is alarming. The campaign against drug trafficking in Mexico is the latest failed front in the international war on drugs. The brutal truth is that the illegality of the drug trade creates a multibillion-dollar black-market premium that attracts the greediest, most violence-prone elements. Neither the Merida Initiative nor any other program will change that fundamental economic reality.
President Obama needs to order a comprehensive reassessment of America’s drug strategy before the security environment along our southern border gets even worse.
Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, is the author of eight books on international issues. He is also the author of a new Cato policy study, “
Open Question: Can anyone give advice for a teenage problem? PLEASE HELP ME!!!?
I had two best friends. I met one when we were born ,and the other a few years later. I’ve known Andrea since birth and Sandra since we were children. They never really talked to each other but I always found a way to spend time with both. Sandra’s boyfriend is “older” and her parents hated him. I always helped her to meet him behind everyone’s back even though I would get in trouble sometimes with my own parents. I got in a lot of trouble for being their for them. usually when something happened, I took the blame. I went to Texas for vacation last summer for a month and a half and when I came back, Sandra and Andrea were good friends. I thought that would be great, but then they seemed to talk more to each other than to me. When school started, Sandra would skip to see her boyfriend David and Andrea would go with her. They wouldn’t invite me and I wouldn’t skip when they did. I didn’t want to get in trouble. Eventually Sandra ran away from home and went with David. There was a party one time and we all went. Sandra went with her aunt, David, and her two younger sisters. Her aunt sat at a table while we danced. Andrea was there with them as well. I went with other friends. I left my purse with Sandra’s aunt to go dance and a while later Sandra said that she and David and Andrea were going to another party but her aunt was staying. I kept dancing and said goodbye. Later, I went to the table to check my phone and there was no one there. I called Sandra from another friends phone and asked about my purse. She said her aunt took it with them by accident and she’d bring it back. At the end of the party, I called her again. She told me that she confused my purse with her sister’s and didn’t have. My stuff had gotten stolen but i didn’t see it as there fault at first. My parents blew up on me and called them yelling really loud. They thought they stole my phone and were lying to me. I couldn’t think of my two best friends that way. Even if evidence pointed to them. The next monday at school, they ignored me and people told me they hated me. I cried everyday at school and home. I couldn’t believe my practically sisters hated me for no reason. The night my parents called them, I defended them and got kicked out. Apparently my mom told them i had told her that it was them. Now they said to forget about it but they don’t talk to me the same. We don’t hang out or talk like we used to. They say hi at school but that’s about it. They want to be friends but I’ve sufferde alot ebcause of them. My other friends think I should let them go but I don’t know if I can. What should I do?
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