Believe it or not, Mexico is second on the list only because it's in the middle of the biggest drug war in human history. If this was not the case, considering the sheer incompetence and outright insensitivity of the government listed as #1, it would be on top.
This is not to say that letting your population kill each other, even though they are criminals, is acceptable during a drug war. The choice of second place on the dumb list is based on this logic: history has shown people will inevitably die in drug wars.
(But there is absolutely no excuse for the son of a close political ally of the Philippine president, in one of the most democratic nations on the planet, becoming the greatest mass murderer of journalists in recorded history).
At any rate, the United States’ southern neighbor is home to drug cartels that supply two of the biggest economies in the history of the world – the United States and Canada. However, we just don’t get it when the Mexican national government has access to most, if not all, drug trafficking intelligence reports coming from the United States and the carnage still continues.
Drug-related killings are already a matter of public order and safety.
The body count in Mexico is staggering. After Harvard-educated President Felipe Calderon declared war against the drug cartels in January 2007, an average of 350 drug-related deaths occurred over a twenty-eight month period. Not even the United States experienced that number of killings during the Mafia wars.
President Felipe Calderon
Does the Mexican national government have an agenda to let the bad guys just kill each other into extinction?
Fifteen thousand have already died, and the basic question stands -- when are the killings going to end?
Answers are hard to come by when 50 members of the police are sacked en masse by the public safety chief, Genaro Garcia Luna, for either fixing results or not passing lie-detector tests. It does not make sense either when municipal officers of the state of Michoacan connive to kill twelve federal agents. We know it’s hard for a country to take care of problems posed by drug cartels, but how hard is it for the Mexican government to control the security and safety of its people in government?
Additionally, we also considered including Calderon’s protests against the building of a wall along the US-Mexican border. Fortunately, that was in 2007. On the other hand, truth be told, as more and more Mexicans try look for a better way of life, does he really expect his fellowmen to just cross north of the border anytime they want to?
Mexico – with huge reserves of oil, vast natural resources, not to mention one of the most reliable and hard-working populations in the world – begs the question, what are you going to do if your neighbors are some of the richest nations in the history of humanity, and possessed with the greatest concentration of knowledge in the history of the world?
Supply them with drugs, let your people kill each other, or let them cross north of the border, and wait for America and Canada to drive your economy.
