From The Atlantic:
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. 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? A war between drug cartels? Between the president and his opposition? Or just collateral damage from the (U.S.-supported) war on drugs? Nobody knows: Mexico is where facts, like people, simply disappear. The stakes for the U.S. are high, especially as the prospect of a failed state on our southern border begins to seem all too real.
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My Comment: In the 1980s I enjoyed traveling to Mexico. Cancun, Mexico City, Acapulco .... each and every spot was a pleasure to go to and rest for a week.
No more now.
My last trip to Mexico was over 10 years ago .... and the rot of the narco wars and the corruption that it has spawn was starting to show. The fact that it has degraded to where it is today is no surprise, my only fear is that this culture of violence and corruption will eventually flood into the U.S.
With a push starting next year for amnesty and the opening of the U.S.-Mexican border to Mexican immigration gaining speed .... the following prediction is easy to make. The narco violence that we are experiencing in our country is about to jump exponentially.... and in 5 years real and palpable fear will be felt in this country on where we are going. But like Mexico .... by then it will be too late.