{"id":101,"date":"2008-04-20T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-09-23T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T02:54:48","slug":"send-the-word-send-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"<q>Send the word, send the word<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having come upon this article <div style=\"padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laopinion.com\/home\/?rkey=00000000000003359240\"><q>Pandillas en las Fuerzas Armadas<\/q> by Claudia N\u00fa\u00f1ez of <cite>La Opini&oacute;n<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote>Mientras cientos de militares mexicanos desertan del Ej\u00e9rcito para unirse al narcotr\u00e1fico, California enfrenta sus propios miedos ante el creciente n\u00famero de pandilleros que se han infiltrado en las Fuerzas Armadas de este pa\u00eds para recibir entrenamiento militar.<\/blockquote><\/div> as translated thus <div style=\"padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.newamericamedia.org\/news\/view_article.html?article_id=242c30e05913a8b642b8f57ee7859d5a&from=rss0\"><q>Gang Members Get Trained in the Army<\/q> by Claudia N\u00fa\u00f1ez of <cite>La Opini&oacute;n<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote>While hundreds of Mexican soldiers are deserting the army to join drug trafficking gangs, California is facing the opposite problem: A growing number of gang members here have infiltrated the U.S. Armed Forces in order to receive military training.<\/blockquote><\/div> I am now wondering about various sorts of assaults (some homicidal or sexual) alleged to have been perpetrated against non-combatants by American soldiers in Iraq, and about what share of these are associated with soldiers coming from backgrounds in domestic criminal gangs, and more specifically with soldiers who are considered to be <em>present<\/em> members in such gangs.  I think that an active investigation is warranted.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having come upon this article Pandillas en las Fuerzas Armadas by Claudia N\u00fa\u00f1ez of La Opini&oacute;n Mientras cientos de militares mexicanos desertan del Ej\u00e9rcito para unirse al narcotr\u00e1fico, California enfrenta sus propios miedos ante el creciente n\u00famero de pandilleros que se han infiltrado en las Fuerzas Armadas de este pa\u00eds para recibir entrenamiento militar. as [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,4],"tags":[169,26],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-public","tag-gangs","tag-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}