Tag Archives: Mark in Mexico

Reprise: Mexico penal innocents

Posted on December 22, 2015 | Comments Off on Reprise: Mexico penal innocents

One more excellant reason not to get arrested in Mexico for anything even remotely serious. Forty-two percent of Mexican prison inmates are legally innocent because they have never been sentenced, says Mark in Mexico.

“And the reason they’ve never been sentenced is usually because there is not enough evidence to convict them. So the prosecutors never call their cases. The inmates have no lawyers representing them to force the issue. So they are forgotten.”

So you have a lawyer, right? Good for you. Next up, bureaucratic entropy.

Mark, meanwhile, disappeared years ago. No one knows what happened to him. Mexico is such a mysterious place. Especially if you criticize the government.

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Missing in Mexico

Posted on February 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Missing in Mexico

The commenters at Mark in Mexico are trying to figure out what happened to him, missing as he has been since July, 2007. He wrote enough about Mexican official corruption to easily, and fairly, believe that someone in a high place could have decided to eliminate him. Journalists go missing in the Mexican MSM all the time, after all. Click on the comments at the bottom of the linked post to see what progress the commenters are making. None, so far. Maybe you can help.

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Missing Mark

Posted on November 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Missing Mark

As one of the recent commenters at Mark in Mexico says, the last post in July was politically provacative enough–a Puebla state reservoir lined with toxic sludge–to make you think the proprietor might have joined the list of Mexico’s involuntarily disappeared journalists. In any case, the blog has been inactive for so long now that the spammers are trying to take it over. It had become so popular that it was regularly cited by Instapundit, so it’s hard to believe that it would just stop, without an adios, and its author vanish into cyberspace.

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Missing Mark

Posted on September 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Missing Mark

Mark in Mexico seems to have stopped blogging. Without any explanation, which is odd. We do hope he’s okay. Could certainly use his analysis of the Pemex bombings. It looks like homegrown terrorism is taking root in Old Mexico, in addition to the Narco wars. Great time to have a porous southern border, eh? If you root around at Mark’s link, don’t click on any of the highlighted spam links in the comments section, or you’ll catch a virus or three.

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Illegal immigration

Posted on December 30, 2006 | Comments Off on Illegal immigration

Sure they want our consumer goods, our superior health care, even our minimum wage. But did you ever wonder exactly what could be at the backs of all the illegal but otherwise proud Mexicans who swarm across the US border? I mean the driving force of the poverty in Mexico, and why Mexican politicians seem so inept at resolving it?

Well, here’s a clue. PEMEX, the government-owned oil company, and what it’s done over the years via Mark in Mexico:

"Pemex money kept the PRI in power in Mexico for 52 years (and skimming foreign oil companies’ money for 23 years before that). Pemex money paid for political campaigns, federal, state and local. Pemex money bought votes by the tens of millions and probably hundreds of millions over time. Pemex money bought mansions in Mexico City, beach homes on the Mexican and California coasts, villas in Europe and plantations from the Caribbean to Pago Pago. Pemex money financed high level political murders, the machine-gunning of protesting students and massacres of campesinos from Tijuana to San Cristobal de las Casas."

Just consider what PEMEX does to the environment. Mark has pix and details.

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Hot time in Old Mexico

Posted on December 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Hot time in Old Mexico

They’re having a crime wave. They’re having a crime wave. Or something. Not the greatest place for a holiday vacation, unless you go armed. But that, unless it’s a .22, would be illegal. Mark in Mexico has the details:

"AK-47’s, AR-15’s, .45, .38 spl and .357 magnum weapons were utilized to gun down 17 people across the country on Christmas Eve, most in Sinaloa and Michoacan. There were also two fragmentation grenades tossed into a bar in Acapulco, only one of which exploded, leaving 11 wounded. One of the wounded, a 30 year old woman, is hospitalized in critical condition."

The drug and kidnaping gangs down there make al Q look like amateurs. 

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