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Monday, September 28, 2009

Mexico’s Security – a Declining World Topic of Priority

By Jerry Brewer

In a true perversion of justice and truth, many are failing to see

Mexico’s security dilemma in the Western Hemisphere. The
political antics of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and other
leftist leaders, as well as the tribulations of ousted Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya, appear to take center stage in a
theater of life and death reality with our immediate neighbors to
the south.

The fact of the matter is that Mexico is a primary conduit for

criminal insurgents throughout Latin America sporting a host of
maladies that continue to threaten the homeland of Mexico, as
well as the U.S. border. Over the past several years the world
has constantly been reminded of the total disregard for human
life by these murdering thugs, and the hierarchies that marshal
their forces. All of this primarily in pursuit of massive financial
gain through the misery and sorrow of victims.

There is no doubt that rogue leftist regimes of the world have

continued to be a part of the problem in this hemisphere as
opposed to a part of the solution. They have exploited and
manipulated agendas of hate and weapons proliferation, and
conspired to deny essential democratic freedoms such as the
freedom of speech, press, and the right to a quality of life free of
oppression and iron-fisted rule.

Mexico’s valiant fight against these organized criminal thugs,

with very limited resources, has been and is a formidable and
awesome task. Lame criticism, with possible hidden agendas,
continues to be directed at President Felipe Calderon’s
approach in relying “too much on the military, and not enough
on local law enforcement organizations.”
Mexico’s police forces, as is the case of most local law
enforcement entities throughout the world, were never created
nor designed to face the massive resources and armament they
and citizens are up against. Wars are meant to be faced with
equal to superior methods and weapons. Who can deny that
Mexico is at war in their homeland? The U.S. has even
demonstrated a lack of adequate manpower and resources to
effectively perform border interdiction under the current
structure.

Where are the voices of other Latin American nations in

defense of the citizens of Mexico and their efforts to survive this
festering onslaught? The proverbial writing on the wall for this
scourge of an insurgency of armed and murdering revolt against
the Mexican people and their government is graphically outlined
in blood. Placating the narcotraffickers and other critics by
concessions due to armed force and violence is an obscene
and utterly nonsensical thought process.

Any form of destabilization of the internal order of a nation,

especially by armed insurgents, paramilitary- styled groups
and/or criminal factions, creates a seismic reaction to
neighboring borders resulting in the need for appropriate and
adequate resources to combat the potential threats. Weak
government and law enforcement entities are simply overrun
and/or corrupted by superior weaponry or the massive finances
that pave the way.

In Mexico police were routinely murdered or bought off; police

chiefs are run out of town or worse; and other government
officials and federal police are tortured and murdered.
President Calderon’s proactive and strategic approach was
military power in a staunch, no nonsense approach. Those
interdiction methods were felt swiftly. Yet Mexico continues to
battle this enemy with little other than a pat on the back and
U.S. assistance.

Criminal reaction to Mexico’s military response created an elixir

in the form of an absolute lunatic reaction. Cowardly attacks on
innocent men, women, and children ensued. What had
previously been fertile ground for control and corruption by
narcotrafficking against weak enforcement resistance became
lines in the sand.

Mexico’s military action, matching firepower with firepower, sent

many of the cellular-like groups to areas of lesser control and
violently took over local drug trafficking entrenchments, or
joined simple-formed alliances of convenience.

While there appears, on the surface at least, to be little

sympathy or hands offered in cooperation in interdiction and
monitoring of this transnational enemy throughout the Latin
American region, the U.S. has in fact assisted and partnered
with Mexico in their fight. And this cross-border cooperation
and the subsequent unification process against a common
enemy are showing positive results.
The reaction by leftist regimes in Latin America has shown their
true positions and lack of partnership for the common good and
human value of life, by vehemently stopping and/or curtailing
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration cooperation and mutual
assistance. Too, Ecuador and Venezuela have taken a hardline
position in the sand against U.S. military bases in the
hemisphere and associated aircraft operating in drug assistance
and interdiction efforts.

Latin Americans must unite and reach common understandings

in order to address common afflictions bred from neighboring
death and violence. As well, they must reject leftist leader’s
rhetoric and question their association with state sponsors of
terrorism.

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Jerry Brewer is C.E.O. of Criminal Justice International
Associates, a global risk mitigation firm headquartered in Miami,
Florida. His website is located at www.cjiausa.org.
jbrewer@cjiausa.org