US/Mexico border drama: when the story finds you
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Mexico has been getting a bad name in the last couple of years; actually it's been awful. No matter where you turn for your news, it's about drug cartels, assassinations, beheadings, marijuana, cocaine, border crossings, fences, and in the case of a certain Arizona Governor, imaginary beheadings in the Arizona desert as a direct result of immigration. I suppose when the news is so bad, you can get to make up your own.
I have just returned from Mexico and I did not go there to report on anything political or about the implications of our foreign policy with this nation. However, what I discovered is that at times, the story attaches itself to your subconscious and follows you around. And whereas it may have been subtle at first, it becomes ubiquitous. And no matter where you go, signs of modern day poverty, child hunger, unemployment and other symptoms of globalization spill from the sidewalks. Young men walk on dangerous two-lane highways hoping to find a can or bottle to redeem which may have been tossed out the window by a visitor. At times, they walk alone, and at others, they queue up in threes.
There was no escaping the Acapulco headlines, horrific as they were, on January 8th, 2011. Sure, they were drug related, and the message was delivered personally by the notorious El Chapo Guzman. If Acapulco had been spared the 'smear' of violence, it was now on the map of areas to avoid.
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I have just returned from Mexico and I did not go there to report on anything political or about the implications of our foreign policy with this nation. However, what I discovered is that at times, the story attaches itself to your subconscious and follows you around. And whereas it may have been subtle at first, it becomes ubiquitous. And no matter where you go, signs of modern day poverty, child hunger, unemployment and other symptoms of globalization spill from the sidewalks. Young men walk on dangerous two-lane highways hoping to find a can or bottle to redeem which may have been tossed out the window by a visitor. At times, they walk alone, and at others, they queue up in threes.
There was no escaping the Acapulco headlines, horrific as they were, on January 8th, 2011. Sure, they were drug related, and the message was delivered personally by the notorious El Chapo Guzman. If Acapulco had been spared the 'smear' of violence, it was now on the map of areas to avoid.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: US/Mexico border drama: when the story finds you - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/us-mexico-border-drama-when-t...
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