Mexico's Drugs War: Lessons And Challenges -- BBC
For the past five years, Mexico has been engaged in a bloody confrontation with drug gangs. Mexican political scientist Eduardo Guerrero Gutierrez looks at how the struggle is going and the implications for Mexico's presidential election in July.
The past year has been one of light and shade in the fight against organised crime in Mexico.
The violence of the drug cartels, against one another as well as against the security forces and innocent citizens, continues to dominate the headlines.
Five years after President Felipe Calderon launched his crackdown on the gangs, there have been some 50,000 drug-related killings.
The number of murders in 2011, estimated at around 16,700, is 9% up on the total for 2010.
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My Comment: A good summary on Mexico's drug cartel war. read it all.
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