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| [Opinion] Conflict on the US-Mexico Border |
| Bloodshed in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana continues |
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Lewis D. Guess (lewisdonal)  |
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Published 2008-12-12 14:41 (KST) |
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Members of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency have been taking their wounded and those in need of protected recovery to hospitals north of the border -- in El Paso, Texas. American authorities have been assisting by placing armed guards in the hospital wards in which high-risk Mexican patients are being cared for.
In Mexico, it is not uncommon for gunmen to raid hospitals rooms to finish off an assassination.
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| Forty-three patients wounded in Juarez have been treated in El Paso, Texas last year, specifically in Thomason hospital. So far, more than 1,300 people have been murdered in Juarez this year in a city of 1.5 million people.
Americans living in southern Texan and southern Californian cities have become increasingly distraught over the recent violence south of the border.
Tourism into these violent Mexican cities has slowed greatly in the last few months. This bloody drug cartel war is costing Mexico millions of dollars.
The violence has lead to a break down in the normal functioning order of the country and is horrible for the economic productivity of the country, especially to border towns such as Tijuana in which tourism from the United States is such a prominent part of the economy.
If Americans keep reading newspaper stories telling of drive-by shootings and murders in Mexican border towns, tourism dollars will heavily dry up, especially in a time of recession on the United States.
This is not a problem that can be fixed by foreign authority, the United States should not be playing World Police in Juarez, Mexico.
Mexican authorities need to become much more aggressive in dealing with this violence. The drug cartels do not fear the authority of the Mexican government because it has not shown its teeth.
If the Mexican government would crack down on corruption within local police, within Mexico's own Attorney General's Office, and some real fear could be injected into the psyche of these criminals, then we could be one step closer to peace on the border.
Innocent people are being killed, not just those involved with the drug cartels. A one-year old girl was recently crushed against a wall by a truck involved in a cartel shooting. As long as this random danger is present, Americans will not be traveling to Mexico as often as they could be.
It is in the best interest of Mexico that this violence stops. Nothing encourages illegal immigration to the United States like violence in the homeland.
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Jonathan , 2008-12-13 01:13
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