President: Mexico's Drug Cartel War Is Threatening Democracy

Photo: Mexican President Felipe Calderon addresses a summit in Merida, Mexico, Dec. 4, 2011. Credit: Victor Ruiz Garcia / Reuters

Mexico's President Calderon Says Drug Cartels Threaten Democracy -- L.A. Times

REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Sunday that despite five years of battling drug cartels, criminals today pose "an open threat" to Mexico's democratic order (link in Spanish).

In a candid speech marking the start of his sixth and last year in the presidency (link in Spanish), Calderon said interference in elections by drug gangs "is a new fact, a worrisome fact." "It is a threat to everyone," he said.

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