Mexican Murder Cover Up?

The murder of Ianieros has shown the extent to which Mexican State authorities and their allies in the travel and tourism industry in Mexico and abroad will go to cover up a horrifying murder that could impact on their business. Or is it something even more sinister?

And what does the Harper government do, why nothing. MacKay satisfied with Mexico's co-operation

What co-operation, they have blamed Canadian tourists for the murders. To distract from the real murderer(s). Who may have struck before. Since the murder of tourists in Cancun is not unheard of and another couple had been killed only two months before, and one of the killers was still at large.

However this was not initially seen as a robbery but a professional hit! And blamed on the victims! Anybody but a local.

The tearful niece of Dominic and Nancy Ianiero delivered an emotional eulogy for her aunt and uncle today in which she indignantly dismissed suggestions that organized crime had anything to do with the pair’s brutal death. Rosanna Ianiero held back tears throughout a heartfelt tribute to the couple, but her voice grew strong and purposeful as she chided authorities in Mexico for their repeated insinuations that the tragedy could be linked to illicit activities.

And the Mexican authorities still insist it was a professional hit, though why or by whom they don't know, or want to say, the later being more likely.

The attorney general for Quintana Roo state (Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo) initially said it appeared to be a "professional" manner. But he now says he doesn't think the killings are related to organized crime.Organized crime not involved in murders, authorities

Now why would he say that could it be because of this....Drug War Hits Vacation Hot Spot

CANCUN, Mexico, Dec. 1, 2004

Moving to halt a bloody drug war that has moved south, Mexico was investigating the federal prosecutor's office in this beach resort town for possible involvement in the killings of nine people, including three federal agents. Soldiers seized the Cancun Attorney General's office at the center of the probe on Tuesday, and Mexico's top drug and organized crime prosecutor said all federal employees there were under suspicion.

Official Says Tijuana, Gulf Cartels Have United
Published by the Los Angeles Times, 1/14/05
He said the restructuring of Mexico's cartels comes amid almost daily drug-related murders from Cancun, an entry point for Colombian cocaine, to Reynosa and Tijuana, border transshipment centers.

frontline: murder money & mexico: readings

Tourism projects have always been a prime venue for money laundering investment by Mexican drug traffickers. Felix Gallardo invested in Hermosillo and Puerto Vallarta, as did Chapo-Guzman in Southern Nayarit and Banderas Bay in Nuevo Vallarta. In time, we may discover that Juan Garcia Abrego has investments in Punta Diamante, as he does in Monterrey and Matamoros, and that the Cancun-Tulum project is another example of money laundering symbiosis between narco-power and elites in Mexico.

And the cover up began in Mexico from day one.

Wilson, who stayed two buildings away from the Ianieros, first caught wind of the murders two days after they had occurred. All he heard were rumours, and there never was an official announcement made to anyone at the resort complex, he said. "I'm surprised at how big of a story it is here, because down there, there was no story. There was just rumour and speculation and that's it," said Wilson.Travellers still heading to Mexico, despite murders

And the cover up continues, this is more than mere ineptness, with stalled press conferences, lack of cooperation with the RCMP, lack of news about it in Mexico or in Cancun. etc. in order to minimize the impact on Mexicos tourist trade.

Christiane Theberge, vice-president of public affairs for the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies, said the group received only a handful of concerned calls from the public when news broke about the killings. “It was kind of clear the next day that it looks like something very close to a personal incident than an trend,” Theberge said from her office in Ottawa. “It was mostly seen as an isolated act of violence.

The Ianieros may have been victims of mistaken identity by the Cocaine Cartels in the region. Since it was alleged that their room was mistaken for another according to initial police reports. And that fact would hurt Cancun's tourism more than just a random murder, which may explain the Mexican cover up.

And MacKay is satisfied.Twit.

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Political Compass

There are lots of these political compass tests out there, this is the first one that has extensive questions to answer and an accurate reading of those answers.

Usually the simpler versions of this "Tiniest Political Quiz" types end up only simplifying ones political position between the four posts as you will see below.

This quiz accurately gauges differences, and since its from the UK it isn't subject to the usual American right wing liberaltarian triteness of the other quizzes.

I am impressed.

I am also impressed that the authors make reference to being inspired by Wilhelm Reich and Theodore Adorno. That makes them part of the Libertarian Left.

But I am not impressed enough to pay them to send me my chart with suitable graphic.

So I will just post my results here. To promote this as the very best version of the Political Quiz/Compass on the web that I have found.

And I have posted the one they have for Canada. To compare where I stand in relation to My Fellow Canadians (he said in his be Diefenbaker waddle).

A tip o the blog to The Left End of the Dial for this.

About The Political Compass

In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional left-right line.

If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it's fine, as far as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet.

That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian.

Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period

You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.

The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy).

The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples law of the jungle right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.

In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -7.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

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The Canadian Party Political Compass

In response to many requests from Canadian visitors, we're pleased to produce this chart.

Yes, we know that there are smaller parties that some of you would have liked us to include, and individual politicians whose positions would be nice to have up there as well. There may be other additions in due course. We do what we can with our advertising-free and free-to access site. Should we secure a Canadian sponsor, we can, of course, produce further interesting charts.

We'd like to thank those Canadians who generously gave their time to assist our research. Bloc Québécois presented us with a real challenge, since it is primarily a single-goal party promoting Québec independence. As such, it attracts members from all quadrants of The Political Compass who often have little else in common.

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