I didn't do a lot for my birthday. My girlfriend and I tried a new restaurant that we both really liked. It's nice to know of there's a good Korean restaurant on Long Island, so I don't have to go into New York every time I want Korean food--and I love Korean food!
I showed my girlfriend the first draft of my screenplay, "Bordertown." In the script, the secret police commander raises a gloved hand to initiate an assassination. She thought the secret police wouldn't be so obvious. I said I based that on fact. At the Tlatelolco Massacre, all the plainclothes security people wore one white glove.
In my script, I left out the detail about the secret police wearing just one glove because no one would believe it. I can just see myself in a pitch meeting, answering the question: And who were these one-gloved men: Michael Jackson imitators?
But read this excerpt of an article on Tlatelolco:
"Since 1968, the government has claimed that students fired the first shots and that the army responded by opening fire on the protesters. But Luis Gonzlez de Alba, a student leader who appears in the photos, says they prove what weve been saying for 30 years: that the Tlatelolco massacre was initiated by men in civilian clothes with a white glove on their left hand and a gun in their right" (Proceso, Dec. 16, 2001, quoted in Worldpress.org, emphasis added).
In 1993, Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo was shot 14 times at close range in a Guadalajara airport. Mexican police said he was killed by a members of a drug cartel who mistook him for a rival drug lord. A Cardinal, in all his clerical garments, mistaken for a drug lord? In 1988, television reporter Linda Bejarano, one of many slain Mexican journalists, was killed in her car by federal judicial police, who fired 46 times! The cops claimed to have mistaken the car for one used to transport cocaine.
That's the kind of unsubtle crap the Mexican government does all the time. In Mexico, walking around with a glove in one hand and a gun in the other is considered going undercover. It's obvious that the Mexicans have a lot to learn from the Americans who can commit a crime with such skill and subtlety that few people question the government's official story and those that do are branded "conspiracy nuts."
I showed my girlfriend the first draft of my screenplay, "Bordertown." In the script, the secret police commander raises a gloved hand to initiate an assassination. She thought the secret police wouldn't be so obvious. I said I based that on fact. At the Tlatelolco Massacre, all the plainclothes security people wore one white glove.
In my script, I left out the detail about the secret police wearing just one glove because no one would believe it. I can just see myself in a pitch meeting, answering the question: And who were these one-gloved men: Michael Jackson imitators?
But read this excerpt of an article on Tlatelolco:
"Since 1968, the government has claimed that students fired the first shots and that the army responded by opening fire on the protesters. But Luis Gonzlez de Alba, a student leader who appears in the photos, says they prove what weve been saying for 30 years: that the Tlatelolco massacre was initiated by men in civilian clothes with a white glove on their left hand and a gun in their right" (Proceso, Dec. 16, 2001, quoted in Worldpress.org, emphasis added).
In 1993, Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo was shot 14 times at close range in a Guadalajara airport. Mexican police said he was killed by a members of a drug cartel who mistook him for a rival drug lord. A Cardinal, in all his clerical garments, mistaken for a drug lord? In 1988, television reporter Linda Bejarano, one of many slain Mexican journalists, was killed in her car by federal judicial police, who fired 46 times! The cops claimed to have mistaken the car for one used to transport cocaine.
That's the kind of unsubtle crap the Mexican government does all the time. In Mexico, walking around with a glove in one hand and a gun in the other is considered going undercover. It's obvious that the Mexicans have a lot to learn from the Americans who can commit a crime with such skill and subtlety that few people question the government's official story and those that do are branded "conspiracy nuts."
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Mexico hit by fresh wave of drug killings Sat Jan 21, 1:11 AM ET
Drug gangs mowed down three people in a drive-by shooting in Acapulco on Friday, a day after members of a drug cartel in the northern border town of Nuevo Laredo murdered 3 others and set their bodies on fire.
The killers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco shot their victims in the street in an outlying district of the city, home to some 700,000 people.
"The characteristics of the crime show it was an execution by those who are caught up in drugs," Acapulco Mayor Felix Salgado said.
A feud between rival drug gangs broke out in Acapulco in 2005, surprising Mexicans more used to drug violence on the U.S. border or in the drug-producing states of western Mexico.
Last year, the deputy head of a state police force was shot dead leaving a beachside restaurant and suspected members of a drug gang attacked a police station with grenades.
Tourists have not been involved in the violence and Salgado said the city, popular with U.S. visitors, was safe.
"People involved in illicit activities have problems, but tourists are respected here, they walk about here, they are looked after here," he said.
More than 1,000 people died in drug killings in Mexico last year, mostly in a fight between the Gulf cartel in northeastern Mexico and an alliance of traffickers from the western state of Sinaloa.
On Thursday, firemen in Nuevo Laredo found the bodies of three men who had been shot and set ablaze to warn off rivals in a drug war that has claimed 16 victims this month in the town, just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas.
The bodies were found in the trunk of a burning sport utility vehicle. Two of the men were handcuffed.
Dousing victims with gasoline and burning them is a favored tactic of the warring cartels, designed to spread fear.
Nuevo Laredo is on the front line of a war for control of the lucrative cross-border trade in cocaine, heroin and marijuana. Border violence has increased since Mexican President Vicente Fox declared war on drug cartels a year ago.
Fox temporarily ordered the army on to the streets in June, after the city's newly appointed public security chief was gunned down on the day of his appointment.
The U.S. State Department has issued several travel alerts for Nuevo Laredo in the past year, warning that drug-related violence was getting out of hand in border cities.