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“Last year was the bloodiest yet in Mexico’s war against organised crime as drug-related deaths jumped to a record high.
More than 15,000 people lost their lives in Mexico’s conflicted with the traffickers in 2010.”
Watch, read and be depressed. I’m curious as to how long the US is going to ignore the Mexican Meltdown. Maybe when the death toll doubles? Triples?
What was particularly interesting was the poll cited during the interview saying that the Mexican government strategy of using the Army to tackle the Drug Lords was wrong, and rather a negotiated settlement between the government and the drug dealers should be reached, as the current plan is causing too much death and upheaval.
Not mentioned is the idea that the major consumers of Mexican drug trade, the US and Canada could probably do away with a large portion of this violence by simply legalizing and taxing the heck out of these substances.
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