Dennis Hastert is a Democrat. (according to Fox/Yahoo/AP)

[nadinbrzezinski]

172. I agree that they are likely dead

and the degree helps, but a lot of this is research, research, research and being honest to the story. Which is one thing we have at times found lacking with younger kids. On edit, I think a good discussion of what ails us is needed.

Back to Mexico: The movement still refers to them as missing, and the government tried to close the case, but has not done such.

A story we did locally on poverty took over 4 weeks to research. We went though census data, county data, talked to people, and most organizations do not want to spend that time any more.

My view of the story in Mexico... it moved beyond Ayotzinapa a while ago. A common saying in the streets is "They buried us, but they did not know we were seeds." This mess has led to a not so low grade fever anymore, but more of a high temp. I am missing metaphors, I know.

We might get a good ol' fashioned civil war out of this. And quite a bit is due to our own policies vis a vis Mexico. It is not just NAFTA (though that is a large part of it), but the reforms that they have done in the energy sector, education, communications infrastructure, labor. The war on drugs does not help, and then there is The Merida Plan \initiative. You will see it referred by both terms in US Press and in the Mexican press.

The strikes in San Quintin, which are part of the whole symptoms, are part of it as well... and that is moving to the rest of the rural areas. Then you have the war on drugs, which is a civil war of sorts, and the Federal Government does not control quite a bit of the country side, at times large population centers.