November
27, 2000
Part
III of The Mexican Transition
Countdown
to December 1, 2000:
Mexico City's
Top Cop Takes National Helm
"It is indispensable to rescue
the fundamental idea of ending the economic interest in drug
trafficking" --
Alejandro Gertz Manero
The Narco News Bulletin
"The
Name of Our Country is América"
--
Simón Bolívar
November 27, 2000
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"Autonomy is the concrete expression of the exercise of
the right to self-determination" -- San Andrés Accords
Part
II of The Mexican Transition: Spotlight on Chiapas
Deeds,
not Words, will Decide from the Start the Ability of Mexico's
Next President to Govern
Part
I of this Series:
Mexico's
next Secretary of State, Jorge Castañeda, says:
Countdown
to Mexico's December 1st Transition
"What is the purpose of investing hundreds of millions
of dollars, plunging countries into civil war, strengthening
guerrilla groups and unleashing enormous violence and corruption
upon entire societies if American leaders can simply brush off
questions about drug use in their youth?
"Legalizing certain
substances may be the only way to bring prices way down, and
doing so may be the only remedy to some of the worst aspects
of the drug plague: violence, corruption and the collapse of
the rule of law. "
--
Jorge G. Castañeda, September 1, 1999
(On December
1, 2000, Castañeda Will Become Mexico's Secretary of State)
Another
Soundbite from Fox's New Diplomat:
"Society
is Not Clamoring for War"
-- Castañeda,
April 2000, LA Times
Meanwhile,
Some US Election Results Don't Need a Recount:
US Voters
Reject Drug War
Summary of Results:
California: 61% Vote
for Drug Treatment Instead of Jail for Possession or Use of Drugs
Colorado: 53% Vote for Medical Use of Marijuana
Nevada: 67% Vote for Medical Use of Marijuana
and to Create a Legal Supply System Oregon: 66% Vote
to Prohibit Asset Forfeiture Without a Conviction Utah: 69% Vote to Require the Government
to Prove Guilt Before Forfeiture of Property Meanwhile, in two other states, significant minorities
voted against the drug war: In Massachusetts, Treatment for Non-Violent Drug
Offendors received 47% and in Alaska, legalizing marijuana received
about 40% of the vote...
Clinton Loses
30 States A Week Before US Election:
The Party's Over
for Pastrana
His Conservative
Party Loses in all 30 State Elections in Sunday's Historic Vote
"From money-counting
machines to night-vision scopes, drug scales to a 318-foot cocaine
freighter, the U.S. Customs Service is putting a veritable museum
of crime up for auction Saturday in Puerto Rico."
"Bargain hunters
will find drug-smuggling speedboats, radio encoding machines,
sports cars and cell phones galore. There are satellite telephones
and navigation systems, home security systems and yachts...." (from AP report by Chris Hawley)
The Washington
Post Reports:
"McFarren's extracurricular
efforts were disclosed by journalist Al Giordano, a former Boston
Phoenix writer who recently launched NarcoNews.com...
'The problem is, U.S. correspondents in Latin America receive
very little scrutiny.'"
"Steve Rendall, a
spokesman for the liberal group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, called for AP to launch an internal
investigation. He said wire service executives should 'do what
it says in their code of ethics, which is to report about their
own personnel and their own conflicts.'"
-- Howard
Kurtz, Media Critic, The Washington Post
Parts I and II
of our series on the Para-journalists...
Bolivia
AP Correspondent Peter McFarren Violates the APME Code
of Ethics
Part
II
Letter to Narco News Breaks Long Silence:
Dark
Alliance
author skewers "the prevailing definition of ethics in the
upper reaches of American journalism"
Free
Translation and Analysis Service for Journalists and Citizens:
Narco
News Press Briefings
Plan
Colombia, the Bolivia Revolt, Perú Coverage and More...
September 2000
Narco-of-the-Month:
And a new entry in our Castaño
dossier...
(Turns out that Castaño
is really Madeleine Albright)
Narco-Media
Watch Reports:
The
DSFX Files
Mexican
Attorney General Used DSFX Spy Info to Seek Secret Arrest Warrant
vs. Por Esto! Editor, Photographer and Reporters
¡Only
in América!
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