These differences include climate, living conditions, diet, water quality, transportation, medical care, and physical safety. I understand that there are great differences between this country and my own. I have voluntarily joined a Maquiladora Tour to Tijuana, Mexico. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Bureau of Consular Affairs. I have read and understood the current Travel Alert for Mexico, posted by the U.S. However, innocent bystanders have been killed in shootouts between DTOs and Mexican law enforcement. The great majority of those killed have been members of DTOs. According to published reports, 22,700 people have been killed in narcotics-related violence since 2006.
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In some cases, assailants have worn full or partial police or military uniforms and have used vehicles that resemble police vehicles. In confrontations with the Mexican army and police, DTOs have employed automatic weapons and grenades. citizens should expect to encounter military and other law enforcement checkpoints when traveling in Mexico and are urged to cooperate fully. In order to combat violence, the government of Mexico has deployed military troops throughout the country. Mexican DTOs, meanwhile, have been engaged in a vicious struggle with each other for control of trafficking routes. General Conditions: Since 2006, the Mexican government has engaged in an extensive effort to combat drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs). The original soundtrack by Tijuana's own Jaime Valle helps capture the themes and sensibilities of this near-mythic border city - and our own imagination. Award winning director Isaac Artenstein ("Break of Dawn," "Border Brujo," "Tijuana Jews") juxtaposes news footage, contemporary artwork, vintage post cards, landmarks and other images to create a dynamic and compelling narrative. Artists, writers, sports figures, business executives and renowned professionals from Tijuana's Paseo de la Fama (Walk of Fame) take part in a lively exchange about Tijuana's current situation as well as the possibilities and challenges confronting their community. It's one-hour documentary focusing on the city's unique history, contemporary realities, and its place in the popular imagination. KPBS-TV premieres "Imagining Tijuana," Tuesday June 29th at 11PM. Hope you can catch it! Best, Isaac Artenstein Director Ask them to call Congress and help us end this war.Ĭlick here to subscribe to the Action Alert Networkĭear Friends: I've attached a flyer with information for new documentary, "Imagining Tijuana" premiering on KPBS. Forward this e-mail and call your friends. The war supplemental funding bill is coming up for a vote this week. Tell them it's time to focus on a political solution and a comprehensive peace plan in the region while investing in Afghan-led aid and development.
Ask them to co-sponsor the Afghanistan Exit Strategy bill which is Representatives McGovern and Jones' HR 5 015 in the House, and Senator Feingold's S. And then tell them we need an exit strategy from Afghanistan right away. Tell your Members to vote "No" on all future war funding bills. With the $33 Billion war supplemental funding bill planned for a vote this week, we have a critical opportunity to pressure Congress to end the war.Ĭall Congress at (202) 224-3121 or use our call-script here. colonel Douglas MacGregor, " The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people." Repeatedly, the White House and Congress have been given the right information, we have to keep pressuring them to make the right decision. We must force Obama to withdraw just like his NATO allies have. We have to press harder because we're coming to a turning point. Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany's president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops." He's in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies - to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hôtel Westminster in Paris. But as this article shows, they've never stopped selling it: Nine years ago our government sold the American people snake oil to get us into Afghanistan, and they did it again with Iraq. "The Runaway General" is valuable because it gives an unfiltered look at how the men who led the war in Afghanistan truly feel. On June 22nd, Rolling Stone publish ed a candid interview with General Stanley McChrystal and members of his staff.
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