Mexico sees 13th journalist murdered so far this year
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Mexico sees 13th journalist murdered so far this year
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Re: Mexico sees 13th journalist murdered so far this year
#2How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
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#3Killing journalists is so sad. It means corruption is winning. We take it for granted that corruption isn’t in control but that is far from universal.
(That said the us has a lot of issues with powerful interests who significant skew policy - eg lack of health care, insulin prices, carried interest tax provisions etc - making but it is still better than just outright killing people.)
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#4Designate the cartels as terrorists and cut off their profits by securing the border.
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#5How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
Zero.
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#6How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
It seemed weird, so i checked, and of course Pegasus was used by cartels - https://citizenlab.ca/2018/11/mexican-journalists-investigat....
I knew NSO group were an unscrupulous bunch, but working with cartels against journalists is a new low. Saudi persecution of dissidents is one thing you can try to excuse if you have shit for morals (they went against the law of the land), but cartels?
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#7Designate the cartels as terrorists and cut off their profits by securing the border.
If securing the border differentially cuts off small-time operations more than it cuts off the cartels (even if it partly cuts off some cartel routes), it will raise the cartel's profits by causing prices to rise over and above the decline in sales. That's the basis of the argument that if you really wanted to get rid of cartels, you'd legalize drugs and let small operations make all of them.
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#8Dead Mexican journalists have only become interesting to the US again as a way to attack AMLO. I wonder how the poor cartels managed to murder so many journalists before AMLO implicitly gave them permission by sometimes criticizing the right-wing papers that scream for his head every day.
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#9Not trying to justify anything, but does know how many journalists there are in Mexico? Is 13 journalists murdered so far above the murder rate?
Re: Mexico sees 13th journalist murdered so far this year
#10Designate the cartels as terrorists and cut off their profits by securing the border.
If securing the border differentially cuts off small-time operations more than it cuts off the cartels (even if it partly cuts off some cartel routes), it will raise the cartel's profits by causing prices to rise over and above the decline in sales. That's the basis of the argument that if you really wanted to get rid of cartels, you'd legalize drugs and let small operations make all of them.
They're making $13b/yr from human trafficking alone due to sheer volume.
People already cannot pay the prices so they work it off once they get over to the US.
The higher the price the less people they can convince to exploit.
Make it more difficult for them, or is the strategy to just let them keep trafficking?