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2010-07-18 Caribbean-Latin America

Breaking News: 17 Massacred in Torreon, Coahuila

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Posted by badanov 2010-07-18 13:37|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 This is very bad from a geographical and Mexican political point of view. Torreon is the psychological "halfway point" from the US border to Mexico City. To a lot of Mexicans, this might look far like a civil war than a gang war, and they are still culturally traumatized by the last civil war.

Their equivalent of "reconstruction" from that last civil war only ended in the 1940s.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-18 14:54|| 2010-07-18 14:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Anon: you speak wisdom on this point. The "armed phase" of the Mexican Revolution was 1910-1920. It took Lazaro Cardenas in the late thirties to put the lid on. Seems like the pot is ready to boil over again. )):

Posted by borgboy 2010-07-18 18:11|| 2010-07-18 18:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Hopefully, we can avoid another Pancho Villa raid on the US during this current Mexican civil war. I am afraid that Obambi would blame the American townspeople and send the feds in to round them up, not to go after the Mexican banditos.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-07-18 18:17|| 2010-07-18 18:17|| Front Page Top

#4 WORLD NEWS > MEXICAN CAR BOMB:
"COLUMBIANIZATION" [Columbia] OF MEXICO NEARLY COMPLETE!?

Mexi inter-Cartel violence slowly but steadily supplanting IRAQ, IRAN, AFPAK, + BOGOTA, Columbia.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-18 22:25|| 2010-07-18 22:25|| Front Page Top

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