Analysis: The Growth Of Mexico's Drug Cartels

A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter flies above the area in eastern San Diego County where agent Robert Rosas, 30, was killed late Thursday night while responding to an incursion just inside the steel border fence. Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times

Mexican Cartels Boom -- Washington Times

U.S.' Colombia focus may have contributed.

Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing Mr. Leon and 10 others in a brazen demonstration of power.

Mexican drug traffickers are branching out as never before -- spreading their tentacles into 47 nations, including the United States, Guatemala and even Colombia, long the heart of the drug trade in Latin America.

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Update #1: New Strategy Urged in Mexico -- Washington Post

Update #2: Mexico announces plan to test special drug courts -- AP

My Comment: After doing nothing for years .... we are now learning that Mexico became a "narco state" under our noses. To stamp out these networks will take years .... and this war will cost Mexico both lives and treasure. But the alternative of doing nothing is even worse.