The Fall of Mexico

Posted by Baronthedog at 11/27/2009 4:44 PM
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: cartel murder. Mexican drugs Mexico civil war border
"In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered," writes Philip Caputo in the Atlantic.  "Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the Mexican Revolution—and part of the country is effectively under martial law. Is this evidence of a creeping coup by the military?"

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