Mexico's Government Admits That 80% Of The Country Is Run By Cartels

Mass graves: This is not Iraq of Afghanistan, but Ciudad Juarez - Mexico's fourth largest city and literally a stone's throw away from the U.S. Photo from The Daily Mail

CR: Mexican government admits 80% of its populated territory is run by cartels, including key border areas

As of last year, the Taliban controlled or contested 46 percent of the districts in Afghanistan’s civil war. That was enough justification for us to keep our military perpetually engaged there in combat. What if you were told that 80 percent of Mexico’s territory is controlled by dangerous cartels, including all of the key smuggling routes at our border, and that the cartels are orchestrating all of the illegal immigration into our territory and bringing their members back and forth across our own border?

Several weeks ago, the Mexican investigative journal Contralínea posted a map of Mexico prepared by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), showing that 80 percent of the country’s 266 districts recently targeted for enforcement by the Mexican National Guard in a new counter-cartel operation are either controlled (57.5 percent) or disputed (23.3 percent) by the cartels. “Only 53 (19.92 percent) enjoy a low level of violence, which means that control is exercised by the authorities,” reported Contralínea on May 4, citing the data on the color-coded map.

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WNU Editor: This is one of the primary reasons why Lopez Obrador was elected President last year. He was given a mandate to try a different approach to battle the cartels since all of his predecessors have failed.