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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Did NAFTA create Mexico's drug war?
Correlation is not causation, of course. But here's the argument for correlation and causation. In other words, this piece argues that the drug war not only happened after the implementation of NAFTA and free trade, it happened because.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I think it was a result of Ronnie Raygun's war on weed. When RR made it hard to import weed the smugglers turned to a smaller, more valuable product to import - cocaine.
We've been hearing about "narco-terrorists" ever since. The action moves around to avoid the cops. Wherever the action is there is violence as successful capitalists try to create monopolies by eliminating the competition.
The Mexican goverment is responsible for the welfare of its own people; no treaty or agreement can supercede this. Further, as I recall, under NAFTA the Mexican government was required to do what goverments are obligated to do in any case - build and maintain an infrastructure that enables the creating and sustaining of sufficient good jobs for its people - and it wasn't doing that.
Tinker-Salas admits here that the Mexican government abandoned its obligations, but then says it couldn't have maintained them. Well, the fact is, it was required to, both by its being the goverment of Mexico, and by the agreement, and therefore it was empowered to do whatever was necessary to make sure this occurred. So it wasnt NAFTA's fault, but in fact the lack of effort on the part of the Mexican goverment to do what it was constituted for in the first place and the lack of the implementation of *all* of NAFTA provisions by the Mexican government which is to blame.
2 comments:
I think it was a result of Ronnie Raygun's war on weed. When RR made it hard to import weed the smugglers turned to a smaller, more valuable product to import - cocaine.
We've been hearing about "narco-terrorists" ever since. The action moves around to avoid the cops. Wherever the action is there is violence as successful capitalists try to create monopolies by eliminating the competition.
The Mexican goverment is responsible for the welfare of its own people; no treaty or agreement can supercede this. Further, as I recall, under NAFTA the Mexican government was required to do what goverments are obligated to do in any case - build and maintain an infrastructure that enables the creating and sustaining of sufficient good jobs for its people - and it wasn't doing that.
Tinker-Salas admits here that the Mexican government abandoned its obligations, but then says it couldn't have maintained them. Well, the fact is, it was required to, both by its being the goverment of Mexico, and by the agreement, and therefore it was empowered to do whatever was necessary to make sure this occurred. So it wasnt NAFTA's fault, but in fact the lack of effort on the part of the Mexican goverment to do what it was constituted for in the first place and the lack of the implementation of *all* of NAFTA provisions by the Mexican government which is to blame.
Sergei Rostov
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