Ya me canse It’s time the United States started paying as much attention to Mexico as it does to the Middle East. The case of the missing students should bring this home, but I’m not seeing much coverage in the U.S. media. cbsnews/news/frustration-boils-over-in-mexico-amid-news-missing-students-are-dead/ Murders in Mexico seem to pop up in the news and then just as swiftly go away. Days from now, we’ll likely hear little more on the 43 murdered students and far, far less than what we hear of ISIS beheading someone. ISIS half a world away apparently is a bigger threat to us than drug cartels at our doorstep. But consider this, in 2013 there were 16,736 murders in Mexico. That might not seem so bad when compared to the fact that in the United States in 2012 there were 14,827 murders. Look at it another way, though: The rate of murders in the United States was 4.7 for every 100,000 persons. For far less populated Mexico, the murder rate in 2013 was 22 per 100,000. I could not find a specific murder rate for Iraq, but in 2013 there were an estimated 8,800 violent deaths. https://osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=15155 No doubt murder and terrorism is more prevalent in Iraq than in either Mexico or the United States; however does this justify the disproportionate news coverage? Who is more to blame for our problems at home: Islamic terrorists in the Middle East or drug cartels in Mexico and other Latin American countries? Or do we look away from Mexico because we carry part of the burden of blame?
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:46:11 +0000
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