Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Battle of Juarez

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Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in Scotland back in 1746. I intended to do a blog entry on that.
And here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
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But a much more important issue has come to the forefront. There is a wild west battle going on just a few miles from my house between the Drug Lords, the clean police and the corrupt police, and Mexican state government, and the Mexican Federal Government.
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Ironically yesterday I had a couple of men working at my house doing some landscaping. It turns out that the helper is a Juarez policeman. Just to get by financially he is moonlighting in El Paso doing manual labor.
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The New York Times has published an excellent and timely article on what is going on just across the border from El Paso, Texas U.S.A. This is a very important issue and I would encourage all to read this article.
LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/world/americas/16mexico.html
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