The Dominio Effect After Sunia

After the successful attempt of Sunia to over throw their government;many countries have followed suit.  After violent protestors forced President Honsi Mubarak, Egypt has been liberated and hopes to find a new democratic system. Other countries like Bahrain and Libya are pushing for the same ordeal. New violent protestors have taken to the streets, feed up with their current government, in pursuit of a new liberating freedom. My question is How Far is This going to Go? After each country overthrows their government, what will happen to the treaties that have been put in place by the old government. Who will take over and bring new democracy. The USA is already feeling the strain on gas prices as Egypt finds new order.   

Center for Missing and Exploited Children

I was watching a movie the other day called The Tiffany Rubin Story: How I got My Child Back.
It's about a woman who had a child with a man, whose native land was Korea. He lived in the U.S. and had custody of the child every other weekend and one week ever summer. He asked his wife if he could take their son (colby) to walt disney world in florida for a week. She said yes, but he never took their son to disneyland, but to Seoul, Korea. Ms. Rubin contacted the FBI who found the two in Korea, and issued an arrest warrant for the father. The problem was that Korea doesn't recognize U.S. law in their jurisdiction and the U.S. had no authority to go in and take the child. Five months went by with no resolution about bringing her kidnapped son home. She went to visit a man who works for the Center for Missing and exploited Children, who helps bring children back from other countries. He said without a contact in that country it was too dangerous to try to get him back. He did say that teachers in Korea have website and that if you posted a picture of Colby a teacher might contact her. She posted a picture of her son and a teacher called her with a location of her son. She and the man from the Center for missing children went to korea, pulled her son out of class and raced to the U.S. embassy before they closed. The father had issued a warrant for the arrest of the mother,but because the embassy has closed for the weekend, they let the mother and the man take Colby back to the U.S.. Her husband was eventually arrested in Singapore trying to get back into the U.S. and is now serving time in jail. 

For the First Time Ever, Mexican Citizens Worry About Their Safety, Instead of The Economy

Only five weeks into the new year, 15 human heads sat glistening in the sun, in front of a shopping center in Acapulco, Mexico for natives and tourists to see. Within hours of the discovery of the decapitated heads, several more bodies were found in the back seat of taxi cab. End of the week total body count was 33 deaths. Mexican police officials attribute the deaths to the drug lords, who have continued in their long battle of violence in Mexico. The death toll has been steadily increasing, as government officials try to combat the drug lords that control Mexico. Many native Mexicans  feel that the government is not doing their part in controlling the situation, stating, " That only two percent of the criminals that are caught are actually tried in a court of law." Since 2004 the death toll from violence in Mexico has reached 34,600, half of which came from 2010 alone. For the first time ever Mexicans are more worried about their safety, than the economy.

I feel really bad for the Mexican people who are trying to combat this situation. It reminds of Columbia in the 1980's when Pablo Escobar ruled the country for many years. It's going to take alot to bring down the drug lords part of which, will mean increased violence for Mexico. I think this might even be worse because the say there are 70 crime boss's, in which only 36 have been caught.