A big problem the new Pres will need to deal with:

[blacbird]

Mexico. The big, populous nation on our southern border, rich in natural resources, that should be one of the leading economic powers in the world. It's becoming a criminalocracy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24524193

Mexico is more important to the United States of America than Iraq is. Just sayin'.

caw

[Plot Device]

If the speculations about Mexico's oil fields rapidly drying up are true, then in the next five years thousands of Mexican oil field technicians will be thrown out of work. And then a domino effect of the collapse of all the secondary, tertiary and ancilliary industries surrounding those oil fields will throw tens of thousands more Mexicans out of work.

Maybe that wall ain't such a bad idea after all!

[MattW]

Was it organized crime or an ambitious rival for the job?

[Seaclusion]

If the speculations about Mexico's oil fields rapidly drying up are true, then in the next five years thousands of Mexican oil field technicians will be thrown out of work. And then a domino effect of the collapse of all the secondary, tertiary and ancilliary industries surrounding those oil fields will throw tens of thousands more Mexicans out of work.

Maybe that wall ain't such a bad idea after all!

Unfortunately, you're right. If their economy collapses, we will feel the effects. We will be the only place with jobs for them to go. And believe me, in this case 'field of dreams economics' will work. Give them jobs and they will come--by the millions.

Richard

[SupplyDragon]

If the speculations about Mexico's oil fields rapidly drying up are true, then in the next five years thousands of Mexican oil field technicians will be thrown out of work. And then a domino effect of the collapse of all the secondary, tertiary and ancilliary industries surrounding those oil fields will throw tens of thousands more Mexicans out of work.

Maybe that wall ain't such a bad idea after all!

Yay! Bonus points for Plot for using both tertiary AND ancillary in one sentence!

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[blacbird]

Was it organized crime or an ambitious rival for the job?

Possibly an amalgam of the two, but does it really matter? Whoever did it clearly felt they could get away with it. And quite likely have.

caw

[Tirjasdyn]

Mexico. The big, populous nation on our southern border, rich in natural resources, that should be one of the leading economic powers in the world. It's becoming a criminalocracy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24524193

Mexico is more important to the United States of America than Iraq is. Just sayin'.

caw

Becoming? Where have you been? Mexico has always been this way with only a brief respite when Fox came into power. The opposition used to ALWAYS be killed off in Mexico. The family I lived with in 1994 almost went into hiding while we were down their because the were part of the opposition party.

The same family had been in charge of Mexico for more than 80 years. Two presidents away from that the country isn't much different except the currency is worse.

[blacbird]

Becoming? Where have you been? Mexico has always been this way with only a brief respite when Fox came into power. The opposition used to ALWAYS be killed off in Mexico.

Point, but a bit deflected. I was thinking more of the sheer rise in violent criminality which has been evident especially in border areas, owing to drug cartels armed better than many nations' armies (including possibly Mexico's own).

caw

[Tirjasdyn]

Point, but a bit deflected. I was thinking more of the sheer rise in violent criminality which has been evident especially in border areas, owing to drug cartels armed better than many nations' armies (including possibly Mexico's own).

caw

This isn't new. It's just re-rise after a lull. I doubt the US will do anything we rely quite a bit on SoB countries. Bush wants to create free trade with Columbia...#1 drug country...rather than deal with Venezula...which I still think is a red herring compared to the scary stuff Russia's up to.