Look at some background to this massacre. Part of it is the North American free trade Agreement, so called. this allowed US farmers and the US farm industry to much more thoroughly penetrate the mexican and central American markets and drive millions of farmers who lived mainly on subsistence farming off their lands. That is drive them into mass poverty and unemployment. this is why they had to head North. They are driven into the nightmare of this journey, the massacre took place, all to boost the profits of the giant corporations which dominate US agribusiness. The hands of US capitalism are covered with the blood of the workers slaughtered.
And to the drug war. 90% of the weapons of the drug gangsters in Mexico are purchased in the US. The gigantic drug industry in Mexico which hires up to 150,000 people would be practically non existent if the illegal market did not exist in the US. It is in the US that the demand for illegal drugs originates and this in turn fuels the drugs war in Mexico.
Mexican capitalism and Mexican capitalist society is coming apart at the seams. US Capitalism will not escape the explosive results that are inevitable. Of course US capitalism with its vicious profit addicted policies are, with their Mexican capitalist counter parts, responsible for what is going on.
What is needed is a united movement of the US and Canadian and Mexican and Central American working class to take on and end capitalism and establish a democratic socialist federation of North America.
Sean.
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i support a united international workers movement.it is so essential to achieving better wages for workers world wide.the slaughter of these poverty stricken people is so appalling.we are a more civilised society than to be indifferent to their plight.it is not nationalism that should inspire us.it should be the basic economic needs of the deprived and dispossed.
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