SOMEONE TELL PRESIDENT CALDERON – AT 8:38 A.M. ET:  The Mexican president had no hesitation about coming to the U.S. recently and lecturing us.  Maybe we should point out a bit of bother in his own backyard.  From the Washington Examiner:

A leftist guerrilla movement responsible for many kidnappings and attacks inside Mexico is secretly receiving funding from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, U.S. and Mexican intelligence officials told The Washington Examiner.

The group, called the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR), is "a terrorist organization bent on destabilizing Mexico. ... Splinters of the group are also adding to the problem," said a Mexican official who requested anonymity. The group, which announced its existence in 1996, claimed responsibility for the 2007 bombings of the Mexican government's Pemex oil pipelines, along with several other bombing attempts of a bank and Sears department stores in cities throughout Mexico.

"Chavez has been funding groups like these in Mexico and throughout Latin America," said a U.S. official with knowledge of the group and its operations. "These groups are nothing more than terrorist organizations and members have connected to other narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, creating a very dangerous matrix."

Funding from drug cartels and leftist governments like the one in Caracas has enabled the group to mount a significant threat to Mexico and to become a concern for the United States, officials said.

COMMENT:  We wonder whether President Obama, who stood right next to Calderon when the latter lectured Arizona recently, will even bring this up.  Or maybe our delightfully multicultural president will tell us how he understands the "legitimate grievances" that led to this new threat.

There appears little to prevent members of these terror groups from infiltrating into the United States across our southern border.  They could escalate the threat to this country to something way beyond illegal immigrants working in meatpacking plants.

June 1, 2010