US English language mainstream news media do not report much about Mexico. But US Spanish language channels do. Watch them, a dozen or so are available over the air.
Oh, these channels are in Spanish BTW. On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:01 AM, tom rogers <decksunlimi...@hotmail.com>wrote: > We're being "protected" from the truth. The news won't tell us what is > really happening. I have relatives who live in Europe. They know more > about what's going on in Mexico than most Americans do. Tom Rogers > > -----Original Message----- > > From: freddie poer > Sent: 7 Jul 2012 12:25:02 GMT > To: Mixon Bill > Cc: texascavers@texascavers.com > Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Mexican drug wars > > 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<http://us.mc451.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu> > AMCS: > edi...@amcs-pubs.org<http://us.mc451.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=edi...@amcs-pubs.org>or > sa...@amcs-pubs.org<http://us.mc451.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sa...@amcs-pubs.org> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com<http://us.mc451.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com> > For additional commands, e-mail: > texascavers-h...@texascavers.com<http://us.mc451.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=texascavers-h...@texascavers.com> > > -- Lyndon Tiu
