Enrique Pena Nieto is cheered by supporters during a rally in Cuautla, in the Mexican state of Morelos Photo: Reuters
Mexico Election Unlikely To Reshape Drug War -- L.A. Times
The top candidates in next week's presidential vote all emphasize plans for reducing the drug cartels' brutal violence, but nobody offers a significant new strategy.
MEXICO CITY — Six years into a ghastly drug war, none of the top candidates in next Sunday's presidential election has offered a significant new strategy to win a conflict that has claimed more than 50,000 lives and terrorized Mexican society.
Instead, the politicians emphasize reducing the increasingly brutal violence, as they seek to address the concern that weighs heavily on the minds of outraged Mexican voters.
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My Comment: Most of the killing that is being done in Mexico is between the drug cartels, and they are not listening to what the candidates and political parties are promising. Bottom line .... in the eyes of the cartels .... their war is between each other, and the politicians are just spectators on the sidelines.