tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post3818644369312780284..comments2024-03-28T09:49:06.899-06:00Comments on Borderland Beat: Introduction: Learning to Live With El NarcoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-47817987007229243072016-02-11T21:13:08.124-07:002016-02-11T21:13:08.124-07:00Same thing in Canada too.Our Canadian[petro]dollar...Same thing in Canada too.Our Canadian[petro]dollar has lost 30%.Prices of US/Mexican fruits and vegetables are out of this world.I paid $1.00 a piece for Mexican tomatoes[taste better than US 1's]$5 for Mex blackberries.No 1 can afford to go to US with the exchange and Mexican packages are based on US dollar.Our jobs in auto industry have all gone to Mexico[I wouldn't mind if it bettered Mexican lives but it didn't]Canadians are the world masters in mining worldwide but prices are down a lot.Best uranium in world here and potash all down.Starting to look like a world crash.Only a matter of time before US dollar goes down too.1 good thing about high US dollar is tourism going to boom in Mexico and Canada.Environmentalists are going crazy here.Transcanada pipelines who Mexico uses we have trouble getting a pipeline built even in our own country to get the oil out instead of shipping by train.Obama struck down the the XL pipeline and TransCanada pipelines is now suing US government for lots because it went against free trade agreement,7 years and big money for environmental studies.There is 2 sides to every story.Canadiananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-79237715684619573582016-02-11T11:35:26.888-07:002016-02-11T11:35:26.888-07:00The recent peso devaluation, cuts everybody's ...The recent peso devaluation, cuts everybody's wages to 1/2, the public debt is in dollars, owed to the politicians that brought the peso value down, nice return on the $2.95 peso rise in official minimum DAILY salary, it is not per hour, entiendes?<br />About $0.20 USD twenty centavos de un dollar...<br />--the mexicans will become billionaires now, <br />--"tenquiu" canada and US for the redemption and the drug trafficking and the TPP, NAFTA, and all those treaties and liberation remedies through mining our countries of people money and resources, all we got was the mines shafts, as warned...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-81100230132339643062016-02-09T23:52:46.163-07:002016-02-09T23:52:46.163-07:00Wow!What happens when the money dries up?They are ...Wow!What happens when the money dries up?They are going after the poor or middle class now.I guess just going to be more bodies.Canadiananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-22931481276464321282016-02-09T21:33:25.671-07:002016-02-09T21:33:25.671-07:00Is called justice and following the law...is capit...Is called justice and following the law...is capital murder is a good start. For all alleged drug trafficking. The problem is having a fair legal system to uphold the law. Like america, make it a business...you break it they take all the money away..it works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-30888339491169957052016-02-09T00:26:29.908-07:002016-02-09T00:26:29.908-07:008:17. Let me be the first to call you Pendejo. H...8:17. Let me be the first to call you Pendejo. How dare you say these people don't care. Shame on you. Put your balls out there like these folks if you "care" so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-70349830483553966172016-02-08T23:00:14.374-07:002016-02-08T23:00:14.374-07:00Because prior "government" regimes have ...Because prior "government" regimes have gotten cities and states and even the whole ho COUNTRY VERY DEP IN DEBT, and there is not much to steal or room for loans or funding or credibility for "tortibonos del gobierno" politician's have resorted to dealing with criminals and these to forced sales of drugs, it has worked for some politicos like cesar duarte, or peña nieto, but not for everybody, that is not colusion with narcos, that is being a narco 100% at the top of the feeding chain...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-43382977973913336642016-02-08T22:53:50.793-07:002016-02-08T22:53:50.793-07:00They have until 2030 to implement the implementati...They have until 2030 to implement the implementation of the statement of intent, canna, by then it will be all classified for another 30 years...<br />--please, we have enough crooks identified and their dirty deeds to keep busy Nuremberg style trials until then, and it has nothing to do with the "mexican idiosyncarcia" or anything we mexicans stand for, I don't even know of any mexican having had anything to do with any human rights laws fabrication or implementation, ever! Unless it is for the benefit of the doubt for a favorite PRIISTA sanababitch...<br />--Then again the goals of privatizing all of mexico including slave labor and government, and socializing poverty for the proles for eternity is not very attractive, I in my inmense ignorance can't see the "merits"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-57508106917421918472016-02-08T22:50:02.000-07:002016-02-08T22:50:02.000-07:00Why doesn't the Mexican government just level ...Why doesn't the Mexican government just level with the people and tell the truth. They can't control all the corruption at every level. Too many palms to grease so there is not enough mullah to go around. That's why there are way more extortion rackets and kidnapping crews in Mexico. Even the Narcos can't protect the public from the extortion, robbing and kidnapping crews. It's way out of hand and that's why I think the military is assassinating suspecting crews on the spot. It doesn't make it right but what else is there to do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-28427129018926815792016-02-08T22:10:20.635-07:002016-02-08T22:10:20.635-07:00Agree 100%, on the other hand, in the US people fe...Agree 100%, on the other hand, in the US people feel safe, but are not aware that adding regular homicides + gun accidents + drug related deaths (illegal and legal) numbers round up very close to Mexico's homicides (about 65K/year or 24/100K, in Mexico we don't have gun "accidents").Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-1258274190267268412016-02-08T21:04:02.149-07:002016-02-08T21:04:02.149-07:00Late news is better than no news? Tell that to the...Late news is better than no news? Tell that to the person who was diagnosed with a form of cancer that could have been treated had they received the news/info/diagnosis sooner...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-3318376704297525632016-02-08T19:03:38.518-07:002016-02-08T19:03:38.518-07:00Not true, the height of violence, at least in Tiju...Not true, the height of violence, at least in Tijuana, was with Fox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-67157151044255408592016-02-08T15:12:56.357-07:002016-02-08T15:12:56.357-07:00the way I see it, the Mexican government has the b...the way I see it, the Mexican government has the book of rules/laws, but lacks the tools to implement them. Why no one calls on the police to help them, because the so called upholders of the law are more than likely in cahoots with the criminals. sadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-54868386671259253102016-02-08T12:44:39.675-07:002016-02-08T12:44:39.675-07:00Do not say, "Why were the old days better tha...Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" For it is not wise to ask such question. Ecclesiastes 7:10Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-70027480674472851022016-02-08T11:29:29.933-07:002016-02-08T11:29:29.933-07:00Late news is better than no news. And of course th...Late news is better than no news. And of course the BB staff have thier personal lives to tend to as well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-51837720101007249572016-02-08T09:16:00.629-07:002016-02-08T09:16:00.629-07:00NTR zacatecas, vende BANXICO 200 millones de dolar...NTR zacatecas, vende BANXICO 200 millones de dolares para estabilizar el peso...<br />--peña nieto bought them for 200 pesos to stabilize himself...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-11044884539778120122016-02-08T08:40:39.719-07:002016-02-08T08:40:39.719-07:00epn does not spend 1 billion (usd or pesos?) On te...epn does not spend 1 billion (usd or pesos?) On televisa and another on national media to have them reporting on negative shit like thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-55655434821741453042016-02-08T08:27:48.254-07:002016-02-08T08:27:48.254-07:00I understand MainStream Media has limits and self ...I understand MainStream Media has limits and self censors, because of a strange need to be "Politically Correct" due to plata o plomo, or ethical or political deficiencies... ...but BB?<br />--As long as WE at BB skirt the root causes of drug trafficking and state terrorism we will never get rid of any of it...<br />--commenting forever on "yesterday's murdered" is not really what this is all about, someone needs to look in the mirror...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-86530779702593161982016-02-08T08:17:55.074-07:002016-02-08T08:17:55.074-07:00How can someone participate here when comments are...How can someone participate here when comments are posted once every two days! Borderland Beat moderators need to be a little more active or maybe they don't care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-52262015145859075192016-02-08T05:30:12.397-07:002016-02-08T05:30:12.397-07:00Mexico will never be the same again, it should of ...Mexico will never be the same again, it should of never declared war against the Cartels. Things were better off before Calderon. Cartels are winning this war. Mex Gov should of just stood quiet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-3475893462634433952016-02-08T03:29:12.111-07:002016-02-08T03:29:12.111-07:00Does it always have to be this way? Such a beautif...Does it always have to be this way? Such a beautiful country, able to achieve and be a world power? Our location on the continent alone is Prime. <br />God help Mexico, AmenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-50179956691123999132016-02-08T02:46:53.902-07:002016-02-08T02:46:53.902-07:00Excellent article!
This kind of thought provokin...Excellent article! <br /><br />This kind of thought provoking and revealing writing is a real threat to the organized crime at the core of our society (aka 'the government') so be careful at BB!<br /><br />Homocides and/or disappearences not being reported is a typical phenomena in high crime areas. Why? Because in ALL high crime areas there are either no authorities around or when around ALWAYS in collusion with organized crime (in which case those wanting to report a homocide/disappareance are 'eliminated' as well).<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-54324001780802170062016-02-08T00:22:29.808-07:002016-02-08T00:22:29.808-07:00That last paragraph Goal 16 I think will be extrem...That last paragraph Goal 16 I think will be extremely challenging for Mexico.It goes against everything they stand for.Canadiananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195137745759962560.post-72875451327445918112016-02-07T20:50:13.314-07:002016-02-07T20:50:13.314-07:00No se confien en sus fiestas. Mucho menos en funer...No se confien en sus fiestas. Mucho menos en funerales. - El Sol PerdidoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com