The stricken family of Alberto Rodriquez, a 28-year-old killed in his car outside his house, gather as police descend on the crime scene in Juarez on Nov. 10, 2008. Shaul Schwarz / Reportage by Getty Images From MSNBC:
Can U.S. gun laws, immigration rules and drug control policies help?
Brazen assassinations, kidnappings, and political intimidation by drug lords conjure up images of Colombia in the early 1990s. Yet today, it is Mexico that is being engulfed by escalating violence. In 2007, drug related killings topped 2,250; in 2008 they reached nearly 6,000.
Drug cartels are adopting guerrilla-style tactics — sending heavily-armed paramilitary battalions to attack police stations, ambush military brigades, and assassinate high-level security officials, political officials, and journalists. They also are adopting innovative public relations strategies to encourage recruits and intimidate their enemies and the population in general: hanging narcomantas — drug banners — in public places, placing videos on YouTube depicting gruesome murders, and more recently staging street protests against the military's presence in some of Mexico's largest cities and most violent regions.
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My Comment: This war was inevitable .... better to take on the cartels now rather than later.
2 comments:
there is a really good story on this at newsy.com they mention that 90% of the guns used by cartels come from the U.S. so while we are worried about what effect they will have on us, we have to take into account the negative effect we have had on them. Hopefully, Calderon can get this under control before it spreads to aggressively passed the border.
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