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Cartel violence so far stays in Mexico but corruption has crossed the river

Will Mexican drug cartels really stop at the Rio Grande because they're afraid of American law enforcement? To believe so seems like hubris to me, but the Houston Chronicle ran a piece over the weekend putting out this theme that's long been conventional wisdom. The article begins ("Juarez's drug bloodbath rarely spills over into neighboring El Paso," Oct. 4):Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's sprawling industrial city of 1.3 million, has notched more than 1,000 killings so far this year amid a gang war for control of its smuggling routes and street-corner sales. Just 13 killings have been logged across the river in El Paso, an Army garrison community about half the size of Juarez. Juarez now easily ranks as one of the hemisphere's most dangerous cities...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).