“The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesCrimeDrugMexicoTrappedContinents Author:Barry McCaffrey
“Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.” SeemsBloodFlowerDrugFleshSunsetMexicoShellsScentGlimpseSilkVenusIridescentAcapulco Author:Anais Nin
“Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.” SaidLordMillionsInformationDrugRewardsCaptureMexicoOfferingBillionaireBorrowing Author:Conan O'Brien
“Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.” MayLordTrumpDrugPrisonMexico Author:Conan O'Brien
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best...they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.” PeopleProblemSpeakCrimeDrugAssumingBordersGood PeopleMexicoIllegal ImmigrantsMexican Border Author:Donald Trump
“Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.” DrugOvercomingAddictionMexicoDrug AddictionDrug Addict Author:Chelsea Handler
“The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.” CountryStatesProblemActionUnitedUnited StatesCostDrugDemandPoliceBordersTreatmentMexicoPreventionBorder Control Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.” GivingYearsHelpingThreePayMillionsEnvironmentPlansDrugProtectHappeningsOrganizationArmyUnionsRefuseCriminalsInstantHelp MeLiarsMexicoOptimistMexicanThree ThingsPessimistLiving WageNaftaProtect The Environment Author:Charles Bowden
“If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.” IfsNeedsHardStatesFacesEconomyViolenceProductsSourceIndustryHigherCitizensDrugCorruptionOilIncomeDependentIllegalMexicoCollapseCurrencyEarningEmployedMexican Author:Charles Bowden
“Mexico is not going to build it [a wall], we're going to build it. And it's going to be a serious wall. It's not going to be a toy wall like we have right now where cars and trucks drive over it loaded up with drugs and they sell the drugs in our country and then they go back and, you know, we get the drugs, they get the cash, okay, and that's not going to happen.” KnowsCountryHappensCarSeriousWallRight NowDrugOkaySellsOur CountryOver ItCashMexicoToysTruckLoaded Author:Donald Trump
“Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.” NeedsStatesOrderUnitedResultsUnited StatesViolenceDrugTradeCorruptionMexico Author:Barack Obama
“Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.” DrugOppressionMexicoBadassIlliteracy Author:Andrea Suarez Paz
“LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.” DoeNaturalMagicGroupsMaterialsDrugActivitySacredStructurePlantChemicalsMexicoVariationLsdModificationNatural Materials Author:Albert Hofmann