Viva la Revolucion

It would seem that our news organizations ought to pay a little more attention to the goings on in our own hemisphere in regards to our Latin American neighbors to the south then they do to other less important news like the daily celebrity shenanigans update.

I found this story over at the BBC concerning our good friends the Mexicans. It also seems the Mexican president Felipe Calderon, instead of lobbying the US to allow more Mexican refugees, er, illegal immigrants, into our country he ought to address the problems within his own borders. After reading the story you will see why I used the word refugee.

In the past three years, Mexico has been the setting for a violent confrontation between drug cartels and government forces in which nearly 6,000 people have died.

That's right, more civilians killed by drug cartels in Mexico then service members have been killed in the Global War on Terrorism. They are now attacking the cattle ranchers and I am pretty sure they aren't interested in the cows.

Gunmen have killed at least nine people and injured six more in an attack on a cattle ranch in southern Mexico, authorities have said.

At least 40 people launched the attack outside the home of a prominent cattle breeder in Guerrero state, police said.

It was the second attack to target ranchers in as many days. On Saturday at least seven people died in another shooting in the same state.

I know the BBC takes a lot of heat for their rather biased reporting and I am no fan of theirs either, but when you can't get international news from any US based news agencies that isn't merely a reprint of an AP you have to go somewhere and get it.

So all you open borders folks, it looks like the drug cartels are doing their own cattle drive, but it is people they are herding up and as they get squeezed out of the south. I am sure we can look for an influx of desperate people fleeing the violence. Instead of looking to the US to accommodate the masses how about we put pressure on the Calderon government to clean up his country.

And somewhat related to the growing threat posed by the Mexican drug cartels, cartels which by the way the government of Columbia is actively fighting and beating but who can't get a free trade agreement with us because of the manipulations of Nancy Pelosi and her moonbat ideology, is the story today of the big drug bust at San Diego State University.

Many of the students arrested were members of the Theta Chi and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities. One of the gang members taken into custody allegedly has ties to Mexican drug cartels.

I wonder if he got a tuition break?

Hugo a Step Behind

The pathetic communist thug Hugo Chavez resembles a bratty child desperate for daddy's attention, with his silly antics the past few days. Granted, the lapdog liberal media in this country gives him equal billing with President Bush, but the fact is Chavez is extraordinarily unpopular with the people of Latin and South America, no matter how much the left tries to build him up.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez carried his anti-U.S. countertour to the Caribbean yesterday, adding stops in Haiti and Jamaica in what one analyst saw as evidence he was losing his mano-a-mano contest with President Bush.

Mr. Chavez has shadowed Mr. Bush on his weeklong Latin tour, traveling the length of the continent to promote his populist policies and socialist economic prescriptions as an alternative to the market-oriented solutions Mr. Bush offered.

While popular protests against Mr. Bush have stolen much of the news coverage, the press has been less friendly to Mr. Chavez.

"Chavez's propaganda trip has failed to get on the front pages, while Bush's embraces have been the main photos on newspapers across Latin America," said Nelson Bocaranda, a Venezuelan political commentator who argued that Mr. Chavez had lost the public relations battle.

He said that explains why Mr. Chavez is pushing further into ideologically friendly territory, visiting countries he hadn't originally scheduled even as Mr. Bush winds down his tour in Mexico tomorrow.

"Today, he added Haiti and Jamaica where his prolific wallet is planting money in many projects," Mr. Bocaranda said.