Abuses by the Mexican Military

A lot of people are becoming worried by the continued reports of egregious civil rights abuses by the Mexican Military in its fight trying to stop the drug cartels. Sometimes it feels like the Mexican Government and Military is almost as corrupt and evil as the drug dealers are.

Almost daily I read reports of the Mexican Army engaging in the same types of murder, rape, intimidation, and theft as the drug dealers. The history of governmental corruption in Mexico is so long standing and pervasive that these reports are hard to entirely disbelieve. No doubt many or maybe even most of them are true. We are now even beginning to hear frequent reports of bribery and corruption of the American law enforcement officers with the Customs and Border Patrol.

The problem is, what do we do? We certainly can’t just give up, bend over, and let the drug cartels take over entirely. The civilian police departments at all levels in Mexico have been shown to be almost entirely corrupt, so the military would have a difficult time being any worse.

It would make no sense at all to send American or UN troops into Mexico, thinking that they would have the slightest chance at all of defeating (or even identifying) the bad guys with the drug cartels.

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