Why was Mexico ignored in the campaign?

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Why Mexico Was Ignored During the US Presidential Campaign

Throughout the almost two-year presidential campaign process in the United States, Mexico and the issues related to the Mexican community were hardly discussed.

Except for the occasional mention of Mitt Romney’s Mormon cousins living in Chihuahua, Mexico was ignored.

In the presidential debate focused on foreign policy, president Obama and governor Romney discussed Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, China, but no mention of Mexico. Not one word. And immigration reform was only discussed in brief during one of the two other presidential debates.

The United States has a lot to account for with a drug war raging in Mexico thanks to American consumers and those at the Pentagon funding this unwinnable war. But neither Obama nor Romney ever touched the matter.

The message is clear: The United States doesn’t want to talk about it.

It doesn’t want to talk about its role in a war that has seen more victims than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. It doesn’t want to talk about how activists fighting this US-backed drug war have been forced into exile and even killed in record numbers.

And, of course, it doesn’t want to talk about how its citizens consume more drugs than any other country in the world.

It doesn’t want to talk about how ATF agents allowed guns to be “walked” into the hands of Mexico’s drug cartels.

It doesn’t want to talk about how CIA and DEA agents are operating in Mexico, in violation of the Mexican Constitution.

And it doesn’t want to talk about how its border patrol agents have shot and killed 6 Mexican citizens, some of them minors.

It doesn’t want to talk about how millions of Mexican workers living in the United States have been criminalized.

Nor does it want to talk about how reports of abuse in US immigration detention centers, including rape and sexual assault, have skyrocketed in recent years.

It doesn’t want to talk about how it’s trade policies, specifically NAFTA, have devastated the Mexican countryside. Nor does it want to talk about how American company WalMart was caught bribing Mexican officials.

Ultimately, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are on the same page when it comes to these and almost every other issue related to Mexico and the Mexican community of the United States.

Both support this bloody drug war.

Both are in favor of a militarized border.

Both back trade policies exploiting workers, displacing farmers in Mexico.

And both are for the criminalization of Mexican workers and their families. The only difference on this issue is that Romney has said he’s for “self-deportation,” while Obama actually deported more than 1.5 million in his first term in office, more than other US president.

Regardless of party, the United States is exactly that, united when it comes maintaining the status quo, which means: Prolong the drug war, maintain a militarized border, keep criminalizing Mexican workers, and continue exploiting Mexico and its natural resources.

It’s time to hold the United States accountable.

[Walt Liquor]

they only talk about Mexicans behind their backs. couple of puzzies those two

[Tim Horton]

Mexico?

Is that the third candidate?

[E.P.T.]

I remember Romney briefly mentioning "fast and furious" in the 2nd debate. It seemed like he was forced to change the subject immediately afterword's.

[jose830]

Originally Posted by Timothy Horton

Mexico?

Is that the third candidate?

you stupid bro!

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I'm just disappointed in the lack of conversation we are having about Mexico. It's a huge country at the southern border, we depend on them for cheap labor and there's a huge drug war going on that is spilling into the U.S.

Yet not one peep about it, shocking if you ask me.

[-Johannes-]

Originally Posted by Cuauhtémoc1520

I'm just disappointed in the lack of conversation we are having about Mexico. It's a huge country at the southern border, we depend on them for cheap labor and there's a huge drug war going on that is spilling into the U.S.

Yet not one peep about it, shocking if you ask me.

It really doesn't matter when you look at it realistically. Mexico with their new "elected" president will be nothing more of the same yessir country. So the US doesn't have anything to worry about since they can do as they like in our country.

[mokmokv2]

Originally Posted by -Johannes-

It really doesn't matter when you look at it realistically. Mexico with their new "elected" president will be nothing more of the same yessir country. So the US doesn't have anything to worry about since they can do as they like in our country.

This is the truth.

Why worry when your neighbor is your best buddy.

Sad though, the war on drugs is a campaign that is going to take a lot of lives before it's done.

If ever they find closure.

[4Corners]

Because US can do as they please in Mexico. Make no mistake about it, if the US government wanted to stop the drug cartels and the Mexican drug war, we could send elite troops into Mexico and take them out rather easily. There's too much drug money coming into this country though for them to stop it.

Immigration is the biggest concern Americans should have with Mexico. Most all people don't really have to be concerned about the drug war in Mexico or the Cartels bringing their drugs up here. It'll never stop because our government doesn't want it to, and it's not like it's bringing higher crime in as of right now. The cities with the worst crime rates are cities with smaller Mexican/Chicano populations for the most part. I mean a bigger city like El Paso which is right at the front door of Mexico and in the middle of the drug war, has one of the lowest crime rates in the US as far as big cities go.

[Left Hook Tua]

mexican narcos have no defense.

american cia agents are too slick, too fast.