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A forensic worker takes pictures at a crime scene where five hitmen were killed in a shootout with soldiers in the municipality of Juarez, neighbouring Monterrey September 3, 2010.
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Thu Sep 9, 2010 8:27pm EDT
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday denied that rising drug violence made Mexico look increasingly like Colombia at the height of its drugs war, rebuffing comments made by his Secretary of State.
"Mexico is vast and progressive democracy, with a growing economy, and as a result you cannot compare what is happening in Mexico with what happened in Colombia 20 years ago," Obama told Los Angeles-based Spanish language newspaper La Opinion.
Obama's comments were printed in Spanish and no English transcript was available from the White House.
The leader's remarks appeared a day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said cartels operating in Mexico and Central America were starting to look like an "insurgency," a comment that reflected Washington's growing concerns.
Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, where the narco-traffickers control certain parts of the country," Clinton told a foreign policy think-tank in Washington.
Colombia has spent decades battling leftist rebels financed by a lucrative cocaine trade. At the height of Colombian violence in the 1980s and 1990s, the South American country was gripped by attacks on political figures and civilians.
While violence has waned in Colombia, Mexican cartels have grown in power in recent years as they took over much of the drug trade from Colombians, analysts and officials say.
More than 28,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006, but the Mexican government says a spike in violence reflected cartels' vulnerability.
Homicides in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, home to Mexico's most violent drug war city, Ciudad Juarez, dropped to 44 in August from 107 in July due to government security operations, senior Mexican official Alejandro Poire told a news conference on Thursday.
(Reporting by Mica Rosenberg; Editing by Missy Ryan and Paul Simao)
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Sep 09, 2010 8:50pm EDT
well if there is one liberal around who can take a chunk out of obama, it’s hillary.
obama will find out, that along with everybody else having him on a short list, you can now throw in the female contingent en masse.
sometimes help comes from the least expected places.
ezduzit
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Sep 09, 2010 9:45pm EDT
Ciudad Juarez is in Chihuahua state – not Nuevo Leon.
In June, Rep. Sue Myrick sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding it investigate the extent of Hezbollah’s presence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Evidence is mounting proving that “Hezbollah and the drug cartels may be operating as partners on our border,” she wrote.
Clinton is right and Obama is in denial.
Ezekiel2012
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Sep 09, 2010 10:36pm EDT
ASK BILARYBUSH CHENEY bitch about her still getting dope into Mena you Obamanos bilderburg fool
you are maybe trying to clean up after bush reagan crap of 35 years, same as we are actually doing in El Salvador, lawters, cops, judges to jail
Legalize Cannabis NOW stupid gringo sheeples do nnot realize it is 2 sides competing with the drugs
fools
USA sheeples are most brainwashed propagandized idiots in the world
8th graders in Centroamerica know the truth seniors in college in USA, not a clue
how embarrassing, but them I left 15 years ago
Clinto is an idiopt you arrogant bought off poster ‘ezekial2012′ you have not a clue
and you use 2012, I have been all the mayan ruins and KNOW the math
you should shut the f*** up since you have no idea on that dope dealing bitch joke of a secty of state and Obamanos was told to put her in or die
wake up!
Justice for Barry Seal
and for Dennis Hopper’s soul,
ask me and my ex
and HBO, corrupt media again
senorpescado
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Sep 09, 2010 10:39pm EDT
and oh, been all over Mexico since 1976, all over worked out of Michaocan, who you think brought them da kine seeds in 70;s and Colombia is finest people on the planet
he is correct it is apples and oranges
incredible all the ignorant posters and fools on the web, but then BBC is also corrupt and have to write what their advertisers tell them to
brainwashed robots, like reagan
post this!
right…….
senorpescado
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