Mexico's War on Drugs: Is there an End?
Mexico's war on drugs continues with no end in sight. The killing of 12 Mexican Federal agents in Michoan, Felipe Calderon's home province, sent shivers through my spine. The power of the drug cartels is such that they managed to attack 12 police stations at the same time!!! The police force is infested with drug informants and it shows in what was just done as this BBC reports indicates:
The drug kingpins are fighting themselves and the Mexican State. This is low intensity war at its' worst. The idea of the killings and torture is simply chilling to say the least. This map, developed by the BBC, reflects the influence of the "families" in Mexico. This is based on the data developed by the Mexican Attorney General:
This map contradicts what Felipe Calderon has been saying about his "success" against the cartels. What is certain is that as long as the United States continues to be the biggest consumer of drugs, there will be a market. At some stage, there has to be a way to somehow have some sort of a legalization in order to pull the rug from all this violence. There has to be a radical rethink of this because it will probably the way to help fight terrorism. Right now, the FARC in Colombia and the Taliban in Afghanistan fund their "efforts" through the drug trade. What better way to "think outside the box" to truly "think different"? I wonder?
The drug kingpins are fighting themselves and the Mexican State. This is low intensity war at its' worst. The idea of the killings and torture is simply chilling to say the least. This map, developed by the BBC, reflects the influence of the "families" in Mexico. This is based on the data developed by the Mexican Attorney General:
This map contradicts what Felipe Calderon has been saying about his "success" against the cartels. What is certain is that as long as the United States continues to be the biggest consumer of drugs, there will be a market. At some stage, there has to be a way to somehow have some sort of a legalization in order to pull the rug from all this violence. There has to be a radical rethink of this because it will probably the way to help fight terrorism. Right now, the FARC in Colombia and the Taliban in Afghanistan fund their "efforts" through the drug trade. What better way to "think outside the box" to truly "think different"? I wonder?
Mike Pouraryan
