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Austin Bay: Gulf of Mexico pirates threaten global security and environmental extortion

On June 14 pirates armed with automatic weapons attacked a Pemex (Petroleos Mexicano/Mexican Petroleum) oil platform in the Bay of Campeche. State-owned Pemex is by far the most important company in Mexico. The Mexican Navy, however, responded slowly. The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) estimates that in 2019, 180 attacks occurred on Mexican oil targets.

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Iris Roberts: The way we were: Our father and his guns

Our dad thought assault weapons of war were useless for civilians and a “waste of good money.” He was a veteran of World War II, who did not live long enough to know that assault weapons of war would one day proliferate in numbers so large that they would eventually be bringing children brutally down in classrooms, and killing people of all ages ruthlessly almost anywhere in America — and I’m glad that he did not.