I apologize for laughing, but come on? Obviously these guys have not done their homework with researching the track record of the U.N.
You don’t bring in peacekeepers, when there is no peace to keep. The cartels and drug gangs would use blue helmets for target practice, and then go back to fighting each other and the Mexican army and police.-Matt
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Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez calls for U.N. to help quell violence
By Soraya RobertsDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, November 12th 2009
Having the highest homicide rate in the world does not make for good advertising, and businesses in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez are tired of the bad rep.
Local business groups announced today that they will ask the United Nations for help in quelling the violence, reports The Associated Press.
Representatives from businesses like assembly plants and retailers plan to submit an official request for UN aid to the Mexican government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
“This is a proposal … for international forces to come here to help out the domestic [security] forces,” said Daniel Murguia, president of the Ciudad Juarez group of the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism. “There are a lot of extortions and robberies of businesses. Many businesses are closing.”
The U.S. government has sent more than 5,000 soldiers from El Paso, Tex., but the killings and extortion have not abated.
Ciudad Juarez, population 1.5 million, has an average of seven homicides a day, with the total at 1,986 for this year through mid-October.
“We have seen the UN peacekeepers enter other countries that have a lot fewer problems than we have,” Murguia said. “What we are asking for with the blue helmets [UN peacekeepers] is that we know they are the army of peace, so we could use not only the strategies they have developed in other countries … but they also have technology.”
Mexican troops have trained local police and joined in patrolling the city, but to no avail. Rival drug gangs remain at war, and thieves have taken advantage of the atmosphere to target businesses. Thousands of stores and firms reportedly have moved or shut down as a result.
Story here.
Hi Matt,
The UN will only make the situation deteriorate. After all, they couldn't give a damn and may even find a new way of boosing their own income.
The Mexicans should just take a look at the UN's dismal record in Africa…
Rgds,
Eeben
Comment by Eeben Barlow — Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 8:04 PM
Spot on Eeben. These businessmen should pool their money together, and hire you for some consultation on what to do. I guess this just shows the kind of desperation this town is experiencing, and I feel for them. The thing I am wondering, is that eventually vigilantes will pop up, much like the Los Pepes in Colombia. If the government cannot fix the problem, the people will eventually take the law into their own hands. But good luck there, because these cartels have already taken the law into their own hands, and are massacring it. -matt
Comment by headjundi — Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 9:04 PM