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This amigo presides over a failed state
When the wildly over-hyped “Three Amigos Summit” played out in Ottawa last summer, the news consuming public was treated to a tsunami of bullshit about how great NAFTA has been for all concerned and how photogenic the two most recently elected amigos were.
We haven’t heard much about Mexico since, probably because when you spend virtually all your news resources smearing one Donald J. Trump, there’s really not much room left in the schedule to broadcast actual news.
Frankly, I had no idea that three Catholic priests were murdered in Mexico in September in the space of a week, or that fifteen priests have been murdered in the past four years, until I accidentally stumbled over the story at the Guardian. But I sure was acquainted with Mr. Trump’s potty-mouth, which has been by far the biggest story in American media for the past few months.
That British website certainly indulges ample anti-Trump fear-mongering on its own account, but at least they still find the energy to report other stories.
That’s quite an interesting stat plopped in there near the end; over 97% of crime in Mexico is either never reported or never investigated. A further stat the story doesn’t mention; of the less than 3% of crimes reported and investigated, over 90% are never solved.
Those are failed-state kind of numbers, are they not?
Source: http://theviewfromfallingdowns.blogspot.com/2016/10/this-amigo-presides-over-failed-state.html
