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Abatidamente, el seducción de la condicia está en todos sociedad. Los contrabandistos de drogas, los CEOs, los estafador de alto perfil de Wall Street, cada país se enfrenta a sus propios maldad. México se enfrenta ahora a una batalla de proporciones gigantescas. Pero, toda sociedad que desea avanzar deben sufrir algunas dificultades. A menudo debe ser peor, antes llegar a ser mejor......................

Sadly, the seduction of greed is prevalent in every society. Drug lords, CEOs of big companies or high profile Wall Street con artists each country faces their own evils. Mexico is now facing a battle of gigantic proportions. But, for any society to advance they must endure some difficulty. Often it has to become worse, before it becomes better..............

I am very ashamed of my country (soy estadounidense ) for the disaster we have allowed greed to drive us to. Still, we have companies in financial wreck giving out huge bonuses and buying million dollar corporate jets.

No single man can be the savior of a country, but I truly applaud President Felipe Calderón for his aggressive efforts to weed out corruption and battle the drug cartels. I hope he can bring Mexico into a time of prosperity and safety.

Jeff (jgrob)

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Hey Guys!

Thanks for your comments. Maybe we will touch this subject back again in another episode of Que Pasa to discuss a little further about what's going on with all this trouble in Mexico.

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No solo en Mexico.

Para EL UNIVERSAL

Oficiales de la Border Patrol, de Aduanas y de la policía estatal de Estados Unidos han recibido pagos de miles de dólares de los cárteles mexicanos del narcotráfico, para que protejan cargamentos de droga que cruzan por la frontera de México hacia el interior de Estados Unidos, por lo que han sido condenados o sujetos a procesos en juzgados estadounidenses bajo cargos de corrupción y ofensas relacionadas con tráfico de drogas; indica información de estos casos en los estados de Texas y Nuevo México

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Rolling Stone has had some interesting articles on the cartels lately.

I'm for legalization. At least for some stuff. People are going to smoke anyway, make it legal, and available and a lot of problems go away, I think. and tax it like cigarettes.

The sun will keep coming up, no matter what we do, anyway :)

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Russ,

Im with you.

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Legalization isn't that simple. The most disadvantadged people in society (those who are poor, disproportionately minorities, etc.) would have the highest risk of abusing the drugs or becoming addicted. It is an unfair burden to place on an already disadvantaged population sector.

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Liliana – no debas ser avergonzada de este “narco-billionnaire”, es los compradores quien deban ser avergonzado.

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Rachaelt

Tienes razón, pero así como culpo la oferta también culpo la demanda.

Es una lastima que haya tanto consumo de drogas en el mundo.

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Veronika21, I agree with you on that, the people that really abuse alcohol are the poorest, no hope in life kind of people, that believe nothing is going to improve. If you legalise drugs then you hurt the economy as these people will need money some how and who is better than those living in those nice houses (thankefully it is not mine for sure, they will put money in my house and leave feeling sorry for choosing it).

Better to open oppurtunities for them and their kids to move to a better position in society, get them in sports, schools, etc instead of sitting in the sofa taking drugs and alcohol. Nowadays you have the internet where really you can learn almost every thing for free (even spanish and french for that case). Addiction is a bad decision that takes years to heal, plus a lot of money in the process which is better used up for improving the country. By the way it is a supply and demand thing if people don't want it, it will have no market, same goes for learning and improving.

Another small thing: Mexico provided us with the double ll's in Spanish pod (Leo and Lili) so it must be a great country for doing that, in addition both my daughter and Mexico celebrate the same day (27-Sep) so I can't forget to wish you guys independence days!!! (man I have no excuse now better put it on the calender).

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Spanishlearners, I hear what you are saying, but drug legalization does have it's pros. (remember I'm not talking about hard drugs, only marijuana, that's important) the legalization would crush gangs who deal it, which would free up a lot of police work, jails are overcrowded as it is, so the jail space could be saved for 'real' criminals, also it has gotta have a positive financial effect on the economy. The new California marijuana bill hopes to gain in excess of 1 billion dollars/year.

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No sólo es que las policias méxicanos que son corruptos por los carteles de narco, sino mas de dos cientos de policias y functionarios ambos de los estatales y los federales EE.UU. en año 2009. - segun del Buró Federal de Investigaciones en un audiencia ante el Senado.