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Bush's Faulty Prescription For Mexican Drug Violence

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bush's Faulty Prescription For Mexican Drug Violence May 25, 2008 By Neal Peirce Only lightly noted on this side of the border, our neighbor Mexico is engulfed in bloody, violent combat with and between death-dealing drug cartels. In a stunning reversal for President Felipe Calderon's crusade to subdue the drug trade and its perpetrators, Edgar Gomez, the national police chief and lead anti-cartel crusader, was assassinated this month outside his Mexico City home. "This could have a snowball effect, even leading to the risk of ungovernability," Mexico City sociologist Luis Astorga told The Washington Post. Yet it's hardly unique. More than 20,000 Mexican troops and federal police are struggling against the private armies of rival drug lords...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).