Drug wars fuel Mexico's hidden displacement crisis -rights group (Reuters)

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Drug wars fuel Mexico's hidden displacement crisis -rights group

Thomson Reuters Foundation - Wed, 2 Jul 2014 11:11 GMT
Author: Katie Nguyen

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have been forced to flee their homes by drug-trafficking groups in a "hidden humanitarian crisis" the authorities have not publicly acknowledged, a U.S.-based advocacy group said on Wednesday.

Refugees International said entire rural communities had been run off their ranches by organised criminal gangs wanting to seize their land.

Many families have experienced extortion, kidnapping and killings, often fleeing to cities where they are at risk of further violence stemming from the military's war against organised crime.

"Despite the fact that Mexico has multiple mechanisms in place to assist IDPs (internally displaced persons) in specific circumstances, the federal government has not demonstrated willingness to fully admit to and robustly support those displaced by organised criminal groups," RI said in its report.

Mexican officials were not immediately available for comment.

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1. I'm a hospice nurse who speaks Spanish. I work in Chicago.

I'm not completely bilingual. But, I do very well with Spanish.

I have heard a lot of stories about the drug cartels that make me think many of these Mexican "illegal aliens" that cross the boarder are refugees.

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2. Yeah, to this fairly comfortable American, I see much of the movement as a refugee issue.

It's been oversimplified, imo. And it has happened before during civil conflicts. I think this still has a lot of value - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -

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3. mexican cartels must be ecstatic over exhorbitantly high prices for legal pot in the USA nt