Friday, April 20, 2018

Mexico needs assistance in methods of intelligence and potentially US military taking over control of major drug routes.

I read the 15 pages and Trump has an agenda that is not lawful. I find the practices of preserving operational information with the President excellent. I congratulate them for their intense loyalty to the country. I also think Trump can be blackmailed by Russia and the Justice Department and national security agencies, including military intelligence needs to aware of the truth.

My concern is that he will seek to change the way the national intelligence agencies work and how they report. We have already been through an overhaul of administrative practices after September 11, 2001. It would be a mistake to do it again and very dangerous with a President that knows little to nothing about the way government works.

This is what is going on south of the USA southern border. The drug cartels always escalate violence within the country when they are concerned about their drug trade and it's routed. This is unacceptable violence within Mexico and the USA has an obligation to act. The National Guard at the border will also be a target. The USA military needs to consider plans to take control of the drug routes and a way the Mexican authorities still in place can contain and end this violence.

April 18, 2018

It was the first of four death threats Rubio (click here) said she has received since January from the same well-spoken, anonymous man. She has stayed in the race in Guachochi, located in a mountainous region of Chihuahua state that is a key route for heroin trafficking. But two armed body guards now follow her round the clock.

“At 2 a.m., you start to get scared, and you say, ‘something bad is going on here’,” she said.

An explosion of political assassinations in Mexico has cast a pall over nationwide elections slated for July 1, when voters will choose their next president and fill a slew of down-ballot posts.

At least 82 candidates and office holders have been killed since the electoral season kicked off in September, making this the bloodiest presidential race in recent history, according to a tally by Etellekt, a security consultancy based in Mexico City, and Reuters research....