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Poll_Blind

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4. We have a free trade deal with Mexico which allow their truckers...

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Sun May 13, 2012, 11:16 AM

May 2012

...into the US and our trucks into Mexico. But our truckers don't generally want to haul loads into Mexico because of shit like this, nor are the insurers excited to insure loads going into what is essentially an undeclared warzone.

This bullshit "free trade" agreement is yet another one way street.

PB

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Thirty-seven dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway [View all] Amerigo Vespucci May 2012 OP

it seems barely a day goes by without a story like this coming out of Mexico cali May 2012 #1

Less than 200 miles to the Texas border. Ilsa May 2012 #2

put the narcos out of business. legalize the drugs. spanone May 2012 #3

We have a free trade deal with Mexico which allow their truckers... Poll_Blind May 2012 #4

These stories are amazing. Any other time in history an emergency would be declared and the culprits Lint Head May 2012 #5

Ermm.. ananda May 2012 #6

It's up to them now. When it happens here it will be up to us. I don't think mass murder Lint Head May 2012 #13

How are we sure that all these murders are drug related? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #7

Who else dismembers 37 bodies and dumps them on a highway? Swede May 2012 #8

Cute. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #11

Oh,sorry for being a smart aleck. Swede May 2012 #12

On the contrary, enjoyed your flippant remark. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #14

They become criminals by virtue of having been murdered. Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #16

See how they're getting disappeared? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #18

Mexico does not seem able to handle this problem. JDPriestly May 2012 #9

Government is as corrupt and liable as the gangs... Cave_Johnson May 2012 #10

The Mexican government has deployed tens of thousands of troops... Comrade Grumpy May 2012 #15

Horrible Aerows May 2012 #17