{"id":229,"date":"2009-06-05T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/06\/05\/sober-look-at-mexican-drug-trade\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:18","slug":"sober-look-at-mexican-drug-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/06\/05\/sober-look-at-mexican-drug-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"A sober look at the Mexican drug trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Diebel, a former Latin America bureau chief for <em>the Toronto Star<\/em>, has a sobering article up today on her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/decoder\/2009\/06\/the-man-who-showed-me-how-the-drug-trade-works.html\">Political Decoder<\/a>. It&#8217;s the story of how she learned the facts about the Mexican drug trade &#8211; and why she has no hope that it&#8217;s going to be cleaned up any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Reading her account about how the trade will thrive because its too lucrative for both the dealers and the corrupt officials who benefit from it, I can&#8217;t help but wonder why we believe that we&#8217;re immune from that kind of corruption here in Canada. As we&#8217;re seeing daily in Vancouver, our misguided attempts to control drugs by making them illegal only fuels the attraction of the business for the bad guys. <\/p>\n<p>And while I don&#8217;t believe that Canadian public officials are corrupt, one can&#8217;t help but wonder whether the huge profits flowing to the gangs that control the business aren&#8217;t finding a home in the pockets of the people we have put in charge of catching the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/decoder\/2009\/06\/the-man-who-showed-me-how-the-drug-trade-works.html\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Diebel, a former Latin America bureau chief for the Toronto Star, has a sobering article up today on her blog Political Decoder. It&#8217;s the story of how she learned the facts about the Mexican drug trade &#8211; and why she has no hope that it&#8217;s going to be cleaned up any time soon. Reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-3H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}