As I’ve been researching a bit on Plan Mexico and its similarities to Plan Colombia, I came across two really good resources.

This is a primer from zmag about Plan Colombia:

http://www.zmag.org/content/Colombia/stokes_col-primer.cfm

This is a long, but worth reading, article by Hector Mondragon, a Colombian activist and economist. He is an amazing speaker (I saw him speak years ago at a Plan Colombia protest in DC), and draws some pretty heavy conclusions about Plan Colombia that I think are relevant to Plan Mexico. This is a link to part one; there are three parts.

http://zmag.org/crisescurevts/colombia/gas1.htm

Peace,
Joy

Go to: http://clinton.senate.gov/contact/

Please write to Senator Clinton to urge her to speak out against the expansion of the ‘drug war’ into Mexico. Tell her about the widespread and serious human rights abuses committed by Mexican security officials. Tell her lethal aid should not be extended on U.S. taxpayers’ dime to a brutal security apparatus which give abusers of human rights in the Mexican government with impunity.

Again, we need YOU to invest 1.5 minutes to email Hilary Clinton to demand:

a. Sec. Rice attend (not some lesser bureaucrat)

b. plan mexico to be heard as a stand alone bill (not tucked into iraq appropriations bill)

c. answers to questions re. Brad’s murder and the murders of other innocent people by security forces in mexico

d. NO TO PLAN MEXICO!

thx for helping.