Weapons used in crimes are displayed at a crime lab in the border city of Ciudad Juarez March 3, 2009. REUTERS/Tomas BravoFrom Counter Terrorism Blog:
Drug related violence is nothing new to Mexico, but the intensity and duration of hostility currently ongoing in Mexico is unmatched by any experienced in the past. Why? Because President Calderon and his Administration had the courage to admit that the Mexican drug cartels had become so powerful that they challenged the authority of the Mexican government at all levels, and were becoming more powerful than their government’s security institutions. The cartels had successfully destabilized democratic governance and eroded political stability, which is exactly what they had worked hard to achieve for many years.
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