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MEXICAN MORTICIANS MAKING A KILLING AS DRUG WAR SPIRALS
March 26 2009
Juarez, Mexico – The Obama administration announced Tuesday that they will be stepping up efforts to aid the Mexican government in the ongoing battle against drug cartels throughout the country. Pledging 700 million dollars to the Mexican government and increased patrols along the border the government is hoping to stop the spiralling violence from spilling further into the United States. Many believe the new help will make little impact on the violence which has been spreading across the country at an ever increasing pace, and some are very unhappy with the foreign interference.
With more than 400 people dead this year the border town of Juarez is on a record setting pace. Last year a little more than 1600 people were killed in the violence, a pace which has government officials worried, but is delighting mortuary workers. The record setting pace is expected to generate record revenues for the industry across the country, but nowhere has that bump been felt like it has in Juarez. With a recent pledge by the Mexican government to send more forces to the city industry officials are becoming giddy.
“We have never seen business like this. Morgues are overflowing, mortuaries are running 24 hour shifts and graveyards are running out of places to put the bodies,” said Delfino Garcia, head of the Juarez Morticians Association. “While every other business in the country is suffering in this recession we can’t find enough people to hire. Of course that’s made a whole lot more difficult because of the fact that so many are dying, but it is a good position to be in. It is very difficult to get young people interested in death as a profession but since this war began they are seeing how much is there to be had. I think this will be a growth industry for years to come.”
Indeed the drug war is not showing any kind of end game as yet. The Cartels are generally much better armed and financed than the government forces which tends to lead to great deals of bloodshed. Last year more than 100 Juarez police officers were killed and like civilian deaths, that number is expected to grow exponentially this year.
“U.S. Officials are stepping up efforts to stop the flow of cash and guns into Mexico but both sides know that is going to be largely fruitless.
The U.S. has never been able to stop poor people from crossing the border and the idea they will be able to stop well financed and well organized criminal organizations is ridiculous,” said Scrape TV International analyst Gustav Hander. “Considering that there is a full-fledged war going on right next door the support they are offering seems very limited. That’s of course assuming they want to stop the violence. The limited support may just be a token gesture. The idea of using American taxpayer dollars to help take away Mexican jobs may have been an appealing thing in the past, but they are showing a whole new economic model. If the violence spills over the border significantly there could be a similar economic surge in the United States.”
Enrolments in mortuary sciences have been on the increase in recent months throughout the United States, a sign that Americans are becoming more aware of the financial value of death.
“The one major concern the Mexican government has to have, outside complete collapse and total chaos in the country, is the cartels drawing those mortuary dollars into their own coffers. Pretty soon they are going to be looking at getting a cut
of that revenue. After all it is their bullets doing the killing and those things don’t come cheap,” continued Hander. “The one hallmark of the Cartels is that they like 
money and they fight very hard to earn it. If they realize that a group of people is making a killing off their hard earned work they are going to going to get a piece of that action. I would be surprised to see them completely take over the industry at some point and that’s when we’ll really see the killing hit the mainstream in Mexico and probably the United States.”
Reportedly American gangs have already gained control of multiple body bag production facilities across the country in anticipation of a spill over of violence. Canadian officials had no comment on their plans should the violence move that far north.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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