Mexico Drug Wars Spill Across The Border -- L.A. Times
Oscar Reynoso was found by police in a home in suburban Atlanta. Authorities say cartel members had chained and tortured Reynoso over a $300,000 drug debt.
Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes.
The drug violence that has left about 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities.
The involvement of the top four Mexican drug-trafficking organizations in distribution and money-laundering on U.S. soil has brought a war once dismissed as a foreign affair to the doorstep of local communities.
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My Comment: This was inevitable. The money is here, and the legal system is far more gentler to the criminal gangs in the U.S. than in Mexico .... in other words, it is safer and more profitable to do business in the U.S. than in Latin America. Expect this problem to get worse as more gangs come to the U.S., and competition for territory starts to "heat up".