I always thought TJ was an American protectorate.... Like Havana, when the mob ruled it and 'tourist trade', with all the illicits, was the rule.
Or perhaps the U.S. Border Patrol has a mutual aid agreement with the Federales. I mean, the sitting president of Mexico in the 60s (at the time of the Olympics) was an active CIA asset, so what's a little mutual aid amongst old 'friends in thuggery'? Leigh On Dec 14, 2007 6:13 PM, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > speaking of border skirmishes, there's one with Mexico that's received > little attention. > > from SLATE: >The LA [TIMES] fronts a dispatch from Tijuana and reports > that U.S. border patrol agents have been shooting canisters of pepper > spray and tear gas into "densely populated Mexican border > neighborhoods" to push back increasingly aggressive smugglers. The > smugglers routinely throw rocks at border agents, who had previously > responded by using pepper spray directly on the culprits. But as the > aggression escalates, and the smugglers become more sophisticated, > agents have blanketed entire neighborhoods with the canisters, causing > evacuations as well as panicked visits to the hospital by affected > residents.< > > so what gives the US the right to treat TJ like Gaza? > > -- > Jim Devine / "The conventional view serves to protect us from the > painful job of thinking." -- John Kenneth Galbraith >
