{"id":2649,"date":"2007-11-02T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2007-11-02T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T14:32:15","slug":"%e2%80%9cplan-mexico%e2%80%9d-claims-its-first-victims-in-the-murky-floodwaters-of-tabasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlan Mexico\u201d Claims its First Victims in the Murky Floodwaters of Tabasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\">With an Entire State Under Water, Calder\u00f3n Has Troops Searching Cars for Drugs Instead of Helping<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Greg Berger<br \/>\nSpecial to The Narco News Bulletin<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.narconews.com\/Issue47\/article2868.html\"> November 1, 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco State, is currently underwater. The heaviest rains in memory have thrust the waters of at least seven rivers in the State above their banks. In many neighborhoods in the capital, rooftops are the only thing peeking out of the flooded waters from the Grijalva river, and in other barrios houses have sunk completely below the depths. Just like we saw in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, countless lives have surely been swallowed by the muddy waters.<\/p>\n<p>But just like the tragedy that struck in Louisiana, this disaster is not entirely natural. It is a tragic natural occurrence whose effects might have been mitigated if not for a Mexican government so dangerously prostrate to the Bush administration, that it signed away its most basic responsibilities to its citizens by agreeing to a 1.4 billion dollar package from the U.S. to \u201cfight drugs\u201d that has been dubbed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/fpiftxt\/4684\">Plan Mexico<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What, you may ask, is the connection between Plan Mexico and the heavy rainfall in the Mexican Southeast?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.narconews.com\/Issue47\/article2868.html\">Read the report<\/a>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an Entire State Under Water, Calder\u00f3n Has Troops Searching Cars for Drugs Instead of Helping By Greg Berger Special to The Narco News Bulletin November 1, 2007 Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco State, is currently underwater. The heaviest rains &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-GJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}