NPR ran a story yesterday morning about more drug slayings in Tijuana, the Mexican city next to San Diego. It mentioned that more than 400 had died this year from drug-related violence.
Well that's nothing compared to Juarez, the twin city to El Paso, Texas. The Juarez area has experienced about a thousand homicides so far, this year. Many or most of them have also been blamed on drug gang warfare. Those of us who don't read Spanish can keep up with the latest murder tally via the El Paso Times newspaper.
Let's face it, Mexico has become a narco state. I ran across an article that suggests some things that the U.S. government could do to help non-corrupted Mexican authorities combat the the drug cartels. I'm sure there're other prescriptions out there.
While the domestic news media and political pundits obsess over the latest twist and turn in the neverending U.S. presidential campaign, hundreds (thousands?) of people are being murdered across the border. Unfortunately, it will probably have to take a dramatic spillover of the Mexican drug wars onto U.S. territory for the national U.S. media and public to pay attention to the terrorized country next door.
Posted by raacluse at October 7, 2008 4:15 PM