Mexican army marijuana haul in Sharp unit premises

[Ghost Dog]

Source: Reuters

Thu May 22, 2008 11:48pm EDT
TIJUANA, Mexico, May 22 (Reuters) - Mexican troops on Thursday uncovered more than 1.5 metric tonnes of marijuana hidden in a truck inside an installation of a unit of Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp (6753.T: Quote, Profile, Research).

Gen. Sergio Aponte, in charge of a crackdown on drug trafficking in the northern state of Baja California, told a news conference the marijuana was in 336 packets behind boxes carrying TV screens bound for Canada.

Sharp's local lawyer, Marco Antonio Esconda, said the company had no knowledge the drugs and Sharp was not the owner of the truck. He declined to give the name of the company that had been contracted to move the TV screens.

"The (drugs) cargo belonged to one of our local contractors, the drugs appeared inside the premises," he said. "What we have to do is to increase security."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idCAN2253584220080523?rpc=44

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Why is this a Reuters international financial markets headline (most valuable commodity also grown in USA)?
:shrug:
I'd suggest just smoking some of it, myself... Wow, now I see!

[independentpiney]

1. Why haul mexican weed all the way to Canada?

They grow some incredible strains in the Great White North,and the transportation cost alone these days would make it economically unsound I would think.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Maybe they were going to trade with BushCo for some Afghan opium?

Hell, poppy, opium and heroin production have skyrocketed in Afghanistan since Commander AWOL & his republicon minions invaded to spread freedom and joy.

[jmowreader]

3. Who says it was going to Canada?

An LTL carrier going from Mexico to Canada could fill half the truck with legitimate freight, the other half with weed destined for NorCal or Oregon, and kill two birds with one stone. You'd want to pick a carrier that used trailers with side doors so you didn't have to remove all the TVs to get to the weed.

Smuggling weed in other freight isn't uncommon--remember the marijuana ring they busted last year that was packing weed in vanities destined for the Northeast?

I want to know why they were hauling Japanese televisions by truck from Mexico to Canada. Wouldn't it have been more economical, fuel-wise, to bring them to the Port of Seattle, or (God forbid!) a Canadian port?

[John Q. Citizen]

7. TV screens are profitable to transport, but pot isn't? Headed to the states is my guess.

They have to go through the states from Mexico to get to Canada by truck.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Why is Mexico wasting OUR money on this? Big Bushite money (ours) to Mexico

for failed, corrupt, murderous Bush "war on drugs." Don't know the $figure for Mexico (billions) but it's $5.5 billion to Colombia (which has one of the worst human rights records on the planet). This money is mostly for building militarism and fascism into these societies, and, in the case of Colombia, to create a horrible fascist military machine to clear the small peasant farmers off the land, first for the big drug lords, second for corps like Monsanto (biofuel production), and for Oil War II against the leftist democracies of Venezuela, Ecuador (both members of OPEC) and Bolivia. The first shots in that war have already been fired--in the U.S./Colombia bombing/incursion against Ecuador on March 1 of this year. Dreadful goings on down in Colombia, where they chainsaw union leaders and throw their body parts into mass graves, and have slaughtered thousands of peasant farmers, political leftists, community organizers, human rights workers and journalists. They are using our billions in "war on drugs" money for this purpose (and the cocaine just keeps coming). The Bolivarian countries--Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador--outright reject the Bush/U.S. "war on drugs" and recognize it for what it is: a war on them. The amazing, peaceful, democratic revolution that they are the leaders of, and that has swept South America, is moving north, with the election of leftists in Nicaragua and Guatemala, and very likely El Salvador next year, and an almost election in Mexico a couple of years ago (the leftists lost by a hair--0.05%--and will be back). The two key elements in that Mexican election--why the fascists/Bushites had to steal it--were the teachers' union/peasant six months long uprising in Oaxaca, and the necessity of transferring "war on drugs" billions from our empty coffers (borrowed from China and Saudi Arabia) into the control of the Mexican fascists for police state/military equipment, to "control" such leftist uprisings. (The first action of the rightwingers who stole that election was to smash the teachers' union/peasant uprising in Oaxaca--but it was the harbinger of things to come--thus, the "war on drugs" aid from the Bushites.) A third element was the Bushites' intention to privatize Mexico's oil (rob the poor of its profits). But Mexico's oil is not nearly as important as Venezuela's and Ecuador's. They are the main focus of the Bush Cartel. The "war on drugs" money to Mexico is chiefly to prevent the leftist revolution from succeeding there, as it is everywhere else in Latin America, from Guatemala to the Antarctic. Mexico is their bulwark against this near-hemisphere-wide leftist revolution.

So I guess I've answered my own question. The reason that Mexico is wasting OUR money in chasing down a harmless herb is to impress the U.S. Congress and its pharmaceutical corp and war profiteer puppetmasters that they are deserving of billions of our non-existent tax dollars whose real purpose is to prevent the people of the U.S. from getting any leftist ideas, while our global corporate predator oil corps figure out how to steal Venezuela's and Ecuador's oil.

How much money did they spend busting this marijuana haul? Wouldn't it have been better spent on schools and health care for the poor? What a waste! What a complete and total waste of China's and Saudi Arabia's money! (They love it, though--they love to see us waste money we don't have, on extremely harmful fascist programs, while we thrash around like a dying monster hungry for oil, oil, oil--oil at any cost, oil at the cost of democracy itself.)

[Ghost Dog]

8. Thankyou very much for that.

You're absolutely spot-on, imho :thumbsup:

[Peace Patriot]

15. Just got another clue as to why Mexico is wasting our money on marijuana busts.

In Al Giordano's primer for Obama's speech on Cuba and Latin America, today in Miami (!), Giordano says our Democratic Congress, in addition to balking at the Colombia "free trade" deal, is looking askance at all this military funding for Colombia AND MEXICO.

http://narconews.com/Issue53/article3104.html
Discussion here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6090366

So they had to come up with a big drug bust. Some big cocaine dealer is breathing a sigh of relief tonight. Harmless herb gets busted. The really bad drugs get through.

[Ghost Dog]

20. Riiiight. n/t

[Politicalboi]

5. Well my weekend is blown

No weed, no TV either. Damn I told him to bring steaks for the drug dogs but either he got the munchies and ate the steak or he forgot. Both are possible.

[Ghost Dog]

9. Ain't no TV in my home, mate.

I haven't recreationally watched TV since, oh, almost longer than I can remember ... like, as a teenager back in the 'sixties. And that was UK.

I only go looking for an "idiot box" ("caja tonta") (like, in the local Spanish bars around here), when I want to see, live, something with my own eyes (rather than just listening) like, eg. Colin Powell perjuring himself (courtesy of Spanish Public Media). Or like, eg. Felipe González and the PSOE winning for the first time Spanish national elections...

I tuned in to 9/11 that day vía BBC World Service Radio. When I looked vía internet, I decided I didn't need to see, over and over again, those moving images.

And I read. And there is video/DVD... And the internet(s), of course, (since very early '90s, in my case).

:hippie:

edit to add: ... and my lifetime partner, she agrees with me. But then we've (by choice) no kids ...

[Peace Patriot]

12. You missed Monty Python? Really, it saved the '70s! Not much since then, though.

Battlestar Galactica's pretty good. But even they flirt with military dictatorship AND mixing state and religion. Helluva show, though. Trying to see past Bushitism, is how I read it. As in through a glass, darkly.

[Ghost Dog]

13. Yeah. I (mostly) follow , vicariously, then go and view some recommended gems

at a time and in a place of my choosing.

But not more than maybe half-a-dozen episodes of Fawlty Towers, for example.

[Peace Patriot]

16. That's my method, too. DVDs. My tolerance for commericials went out with

my tolerance for the Vietnam War. Well. Iran/Contra. That was it. No more "ring around the collar" for me.

[Ghost Dog]

18. What you said. And then, there was Madame Thatcher or however you spell itr...

(I liked the Bliar even less, smarmy bastard). 'Nough said.

Oh, but wait, I find it deeply interesting to be able to use this common language here where I live (Spanish) to talk to and listen to Germans (nevertheless, of course. 'hermanos', brothers/sisters, to a great degree)...

But let's not get into that or, perhaps least of all, anything French (there's the irony again).

Although most Brits still don't, I observe. I do.

...Everybody in the world should at least have read and thought about Count Leon Tolstoy's "War And Peace", imho.

[Ghost Dog]

14. There was for a while also something called "Not The Nine O'Clock News"?

Um. Yes indeed, and the amazing (what was that "Ball" called?) Marty Feldman...

Ed. Sorry, folks, getting into "British" sense of humour (irony) here... (I'm self-exiled to the deep south (of Europe) mesel).

Ed. again: plenty of my friends and some family are BBC and other UK media "middle-class insiders", BTW. :hi:

[AlphaCentauri]

10. TV is the most addictable drug n/t

[Ghost Dog]

11. ¡INDEED!

Rots your brain, too.

[Trillo]

6. Too bad it wasn't the U.S. If that was a homeowner here,

its often been claimed in the MSM the police would seize all the property involved, sometimes including the home, but certainly the truck.

[bitchkitty]

17. Too wierd.

There's no way they could have a market for CRAP in Canada, of all places.

[Ghost Dog]

19. Sure, some things just need to be controlled. But the main thing is to learn

self-control.