Sunday, October 19, 2008

Mexico's Drug Wars Exploding Everywhere

The corpse of a Mexican policeman shot dead by assassins lies on the street in Rosarito, Baja California state (Photo from Breitbart/AFP)

Mexican Drug Wars Intensify, Killing Nearly 400 In Two Weeks -- Breitbart

Almost 400 people have died in the past two weeks in an intensifying drugs war in Mexico despite a government crackdown on cartels, trafficking and related violence.

The killings include six people lined up and shot against a wall with a written warning promising a similar fate to all "rats", and five others shot dead in a house where a ganglord's corpse was found in a freezer.

The death toll this year has crossed 3,800 despite a massive state crackdown launched two years, including the deployment of some 36,000 soldiers across the country.

The drug wars, ongoing for years in Mexico, has seen a spiral in violence since August.

Newspaper tolls, published daily, show 387 people were killed in the first two weeks of October, and more than 3,800 deaths recorded since the start of the year.

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My Comment: Coming to a neighborhood near you.

1 comment:

Gernot said...

Who is to blame here but the drug user demanding the drugs.
Americans must stop using drugs and then there will be no more deliveries by the Mexican drug gangs.