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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Looking For Work? The Mexican Drug Cartels Are Hiring

They’re not only hiring, they’re openly advertising and listing job benefits in their recruiting efforts:

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico—The job offer was tempting.

It was printed on a 16-foot-wide banner and strung above one of the busiest roads here, calling out to any “soldier or ex-soldier.”

“We’re offering you a good salary, food and medical care for your families,” it said in block letters.

But there was a catch: The employer was Los Zetas, a notorious Gulf cartel hit squad formed by elite Mexican army deserters. The group even included a phone number for job seekers that linked to a voice mailbox.

Outrageous as they seem, drug cartel messages such as the banner hung here late last month are becoming increasingly common along the violence-savaged U.S.-Mexico border and in other parts of the region. As soldiers wage a massive campaign against drug trafficking across Mexico, they are encountering an information war managed by criminal networks that operate with near impunity.

A similar sign in the Gulf of Mexico city of Tampico promised “loans and life insurance.”

“What else could you want?” it read. The banner closed with a boast: “The state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, the United States and the world—territory of the Gulf cartel.”

How do you say “chutzpah” in Spanish?

Comments

Cojones

How do you say “chutzpah” in Spanish?

WOOF on May 11, 2008 at 06:43 am

What’s this?
Americans doing the jobs that Mexicans won’t do??? Heh.



Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

Proof on May 11, 2008 at 07:07 am

It sounds like a pretty good way to get busted.

Zsa Zsa on May 11, 2008 at 07:11 am
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MEXICAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM ECONOMICS

It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested.

When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.

And, when they return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services.

Mexico is land rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically poor are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them. It is so inferior than none of them want to return to it.

The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America’s worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods.

America is presently occupied by 12-15 million Mexicans. With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language; crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.

When seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated, the experience is mutually positive.

When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Neo-Lib Democrats and Neo-Con Republicans will lose millions of political supporters, and the vast donations that they receive from the Mexican Lobby; and, those American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will lose their illegal competitive advantages.

No rich superior civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a poor inferior civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, armed border guards, and fines for hiring illegal aliens.

Jeugenen on May 11, 2008 at 07:13 am

The cartel could claim the pot harvest was for ethonol production and receive carbon credits from the UN.

Mickey on May 11, 2008 at 08:50 am
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I didn’t see any mention of a dental plan.  Any other benefits?  As is, no dental plan is a deal breaker.

FlyOnTheWall on May 11, 2008 at 09:28 am
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