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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> October 25, 2004 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, During a debate we had here on The Narcosphere back in August, I wrote: "...it is impossible for the United States to militarily invade Mexico - or even place an economic embargo upon it - without causing conditions that would fast lead a rebellion by United States citizens against their own government at home, and that Mexico enjoys a unique power in this sense..." I have said this, in fact, to thousands of people in recent years, imploring Mexican friends and allies to realize the real power they have to change drug policies, and others, without fear of Uncle Sam, and imploring gringo friends and allies to understand that a potential silver bullet exists South of the Border to collapse the entire drug war game. I usually get blank stares in response. To suggest that the little guy can beat the neighborhood bully here in a barrio called América seems to cause a kind of nervous discomfort. But in today's Mexico City daily La Jornada, somebody else just said it: a very official-looking bloke from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. His name is John Coatsworth. Look at his photo. It's not like he's wearing a ski-mask over his suit and tie. This guy is as establishment as they come. I'll translate his words. Maybe y'all will listen to the guy in the suit... Coatsworth, director of the Rockefeller Center, said: "For the first time in the history of the Mexico-United States relationship, the latter can't act against its neighbor in a manner that damages significant Mexican interests without damaging its own interests... "I think that the most interesting and least recognized aspect of the relations between both countries is how power has been displaced so dramatically from the United States toward Mexico. The people who keep talking about the asymmetry have to rethink it. That offers Mexico the capacity to project power toward Washington in favor of its own interests and in a way that is still not being exploited, very consistently and consciously..." Coatsworth was interviewed by David Brooks and Jim Cason about the upcoming elections in the United States, prospects for changes in immigration policy, and economic issues. To be fair, I'll note that he didn't bring up drugs. But I'll also say that everything he says about the changing power dynamics between the two countries applies with exactitude to questions of drug policy. The days are over when U.S. Ambassadors and special envoys - like Washington's Charles Shapiro attempted Thursday in Bolivia (Read Alex Contreras' Narco News report on that adventure in imperial arrogance) - can threaten Mexico with similar harm if it doesn't toe the line on drug policy. The dynamics are simply too explosive. Harm the Mexican economy, and you harm the U.S. economy. The right hand can't shoot the left hand without losing blood itself. So what keeps the drug war in place in Mexico? Read the analysis on The Narcosphere: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/10/25/122117/29 And join the conversation. A lot is about to change in our América. And it's about time. 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