Consequences Of Mexico's Drug Wars

File picture shows guns and munitions confiscated from alleged Mexican drug dealers. A suspected finance officer for the feared Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's main drug trafficking syndicates, has been captured in a joint operation with the United States, Mexican justice officials announced. (AFP/File/Omar Torres)

Mexico's Deadly Drug Battles Leave Border City
In Shambles -- The Toronto Star

Cartels vying for trade, smuggling routes to U.S. have killed 1,100 people so far this year

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico–My neighbour has been kidnapped and my 6-year-old daughter witnessed an armed robbery at the local store. A friend was almost killed by a stray bullet in a gun battle at a set of traffic lights.

I hear gunfire in the streets as I work in my house, behind a front door bolted with four locks, and I feel a knot in my stomach whenever the telephone rings.

Another friend recently picked up to hear a voice say: "I'll kill your children if you don't pay me a lot of money."

With dozens of abductions and extortions daily in this rundown northern Mexican border city, he didn't wait to find out if it was real or a hoax. He moved to Toronto.

Life in Ciudad Juarez (or just Juarez), a city infamous for the unsolved murders of hundreds of young women in the 1990s, was never exactly pleasant. But since a new war between rival drug cartels broke out this year, law and order has collapsed.

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My Comment: There is still no light at the end of the tunnel. Mexico's drug wars are only going to get worse.