Apparently, the Mexicans are pissed because our State Department remarked about the growing violence targeting Americans along the border and further south of it. It seems that the drug war in Mexico is overwhelming the agents of their law enforcement agencies and justice systems, while taking a sharp turn to target Americans.
As the Mexicans are proclaiming the quantity and quality of their recent arrests, it seems that incarcerated druglords and kingpins have lost little control through a prison system infested with corruption. They’re still able to wage turf wars against the rising drug players who wish to fill their shoes, which has only intensified the violence.
These problems just further illustrate the inadequacies of our drug war policy. While I do believe in the War on Drugs and that it’s not at all throwing good money after bad, new approaches do need to be taken. While I ponder some possibly more effective schemes, read the article at the NY Times website.
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