Nuevo Laredo: Martial Law as Media Stunt in the Failed War on Drugs

June 14, 2005
Gary Webb - Presente

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"We are not in the era of Al Capone and Prohibition.”

- Slain Police Chief Alejandro Domínguez Cuello, prior to his death

Dear Colleague,

It’s a wet dream for Commercial Media journalists: The new police chief
of
the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo took office last Wednesday.
Nine
hours later he was gunned down. US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza
quickly
issued a press release harping a song of I-told-you-so: ““A few weeks
ago, I
asked the State Department to re-issue a public announcement about the
on-going violence in the border region.”

By Saturday, Mexican President Vicente Fox sent in a convoy of federal
police who, on an access road to a country club near the city, ended up
in a
shootout with local police. Newspaper editorialists salivated: “Until
Mexico
takes aggressive measures to fight crime and combat the violence that
has
spilled into the streets, the country will remain unsafe for residents
and
tourists,” lectures one such boilerplate text in the San Antonio
Express-News, which in a careless turn of the pen declares “the
country” –
an entire nation, not just the border city – unsafe.

But as a US Customs agent admitted yesterday in a rare moment of
candor,
none of this grand show of force is going to make anybody any safer.

Read the parts of the story that the Commercial Media won't tell you...

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/14/104713/876

From somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Correspondent
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com
Email: narconews [at] gmail.com

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