[img_assist|nid=28065|title=|desc="In this July 15, 2011 photo, Michael Jones, the business development manager at Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport in in Brownsville, Texas, lays out a series of model Aeromexico planes to be given to dignitaries upon the arrival of Aeromexico's first direct flight to the airport from Monterrey, Mexico.
The number of women incarcerated in Mexico for federal crimes has grown by 400 percent since 2007, pushing the total female prison population past 10,000.
The Mexican government acknowledged Sunday that US intelligence and military officials are deployed inside Mexico, but refused to confirm details of a published report on their role in the country’s “drug war” for reasons of “national security.”
Here we go again. Amidst all the talk about out-of-control federal spending and debt, what does the U.S. government do? It goes out and spends more money by expanding the drug war in Mexico.
The U.S. is sending new CIA operatives and retired military personnel to Mexico as part of a push to expand it's role in fighting the country's powerful drug trafficking organizations, according to a New York Times report published today.