{"id":4033,"date":"2011-06-02T02:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2011-06-03T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:16:53","slug":"humanity-among-monsters-the-descent-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4033","title":{"rendered":"Humanity among Monsters: The Descent of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/30\/mexico-kindergarten.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A kindergarten teacher in <strong>Mexico<\/strong> seeks to protect her students and calm their fears as<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4006\"> narco-cartel fighters <\/a>conduct a raging gun battle outside the window of her school. The woman has nerves of iron.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"640\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"390\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I7vjig6UlFg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I7vjig6UlFg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p height=\"390\" width=\"640\">But hey&#8230;..Mexico can&#8217;t have an &#8220;insurgency&#8221; because the narcos don&#8217;t have &#8220;political&#8221; goals. Or a unified political goal. Or because there are still good vacation deals there\u00a0at all-inclusive resorts. Or&#8230;.Or&#8230;Or&#8230;. whatever flimsy rationale helps policy makers continue to punt the war next door.<\/p>\n<p height=\"390\" width=\"640\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"zenpundit\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Boing Boing: A kindergarten teacher in Mexico seeks to protect her students and calm their fears as narco-cartel fighters conduct a raging gun battle outside the window of her school. The woman has nerves of iron. But hey&#8230;..Mexico can&#8217;t have an &#8220;insurgency&#8221; because the narcos don&#8217;t have &#8220;political&#8221; goals. Or a unified political goal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,310,262,309,132,574,87,199,583,573,270,372,10,211,375,18,217,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-3-gen-gangs","category-4gw","category-criminals","category-dystopia","category-failed-state","category-foreign-policy","category-insurgency","category-latin-america","category-mexico","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-state-failure","category-terrorism","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-war","category-warriors","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}