U.S., Mexico Align Against Common Foe: Brutal Narcotics Trade -- Washington Post
After long era of mistrust, nations merge training, intelligence and technology.
MEXICO CITY -- To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police officers and dumping their bound and stripped corpses in a pile beside a busy highway.
The slaughtered federal agents, it later emerged, had something in common: All had been vetted and trained by the U.S. government to work alongside its anti-narcotics agents. Officials said the American connection made them high-value targets for the cartels, which are lashing back ruthlessly against a military crackdown involving unprecedented cooperation between the two countries.
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My Comment: Both sides are now awakening to the realization that this is a low level "insurgency" with drugs and drug gangs being the major components of this conflict.
Failure to stop it now may result it in morphing into something that Colombia has/and is going through right now .... a civil war with guerrilla movements financed and supported by the drug trade.