For those of us who live by the boarder we know the problem is real. When there are bullet holes on this side fired from Mexico and gun battles with the Rio Grande in the middle.......You believe. Probably 90% of the deaths are involved in one way or another. The problem is when one gets caught in the middle, is mistaken as being involved or they think that you saw something.
News reporters that report the facts in Mexico are killed. Even reporters on the US side that live on the boarder are hesitant to really report what is going on. Thus mis-information. I live on the boarder and still do a lot of business in Mexico and I can assure you it is real. I have learned to be very careful and aware of my surroundings. For those not over there all of the time the total probability may be low but in the right place and not knowing the local situation the probability can be quite high. Keep in mind that the growing and manufacturing is in remote areas. Hum.......Where are the caves? Bruce Sent from my iPhone On Jul 7, 2012, at 7:24 AM, freddie poer <freddiepoe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It probably is. I still go to Mexico quite frequently and what I have noticed > is that what makes the news here, I don't see in the news there, and visa > versa. Makes me wonder where this news is coming from and how much of it is > true. Meanwhile, I do not know of a single person who has witnessed any of it > firsthand. Nonetheless it has been very effective in scaring off American > tourists including what I formerly considered brave American cavers. > > --- On Fri, 7/6/12, Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > > From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> > Subject: [Texascavers] Mexican drug wars > To: "Cavers Texas" <texascavers@texascavers.com> > Date: Friday, July 6, 2012, 9:09 PM > > For those wanting to keep up on the Mexican drug wars, there's a long article > in the July 2 issue of The New Yorker. I recall earlier press reports that > the Mexican army had seized a remarkable about of meth. From the article: > > "In February, the Army announced that it had seized, in a "historic bust," in > Tlajomulco [Jalisco], fifteen tons of methamphetamine. The street value of > that much meth was, by the Army's figuring, some four billion dollars. If > true, that would make it the largest meth bust in history. But was it true?... > > "I tried to get to the bottom of a single bust--the "historic" meth-lab raid > in Tlajomulco that confiscated some our billion dollars' worth of drugs. Were > the drugs seized really worth that much? Well, no. The more experts I > consulted, the lower the number sank. Maybe it was a billion, if the meth was > pure. Then was it really fifteen tons of "pure meth," as widely reported? > Well, no. There had been some confusion. There were precursor chemicals. A > lot of equipment--gas tanks, reactors. Maybe it was eleven pounds of pure > meth. Eleven pounds? Nobody wanted to speak on the record, but the spokesman > for the federal presecutor's office in Guadalajara, a young man named Ulises > Enríquez Camacho, finally said, "Yes, five kilos." Eleven pounds. The fifteen > tons had been methamphetamine ready for packing, according to the Army. But > it was not "finished product," and there had been only five kilos of crystal. > In the U.S., where meth is often sold by the gram, that amount might be worth > five hundred thousand dollars. So the reported value had been inflated by a > factor of eight thousand?" > > I hope the body count is not off by a factor of eight thousand. > --Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > I'm walking down the street with Leonardo da Vinci. He says, "The things your > science has created are indeed wonderful. You must explain to me how > everything works." That's when I wake up. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu > AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com >
