We bring fear
Chuck Bowden has written another piece, gut-wrentching in its honesty, accuracy, and non-partisan perspective. You see there isn't always a right or a wrong, a right or a left. There's the truth and then there are the alternatives to that truth.
Read it here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/we-bring-fear
An excerpt:
There are two Mexicos.
There is the one reported by the US press, a place where the Mexican president is fighting a valiant war on drugs, aided by the Mexican Army and the Mérida Initiative, the $1.4 billion in aid the United States has committed to the cause. This Mexico has newspapers, courts, laws, and is seen by the United States government as a sister republic.
It does not exist.
There is a second Mexico where the war is for drugs, where the police and the military fight for their share of drug profits, where the press is restrained by the murder of reporters and feasts on a steady diet of bribes, and where the line between the government and the drug world has never existed.
The reporter lives in this second Mexico.
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