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The High Cost of Paying Hommage to Virtue

By Jonathan Simor

span style="font-family:times new roman;" In Mexico, the bodies continue to pile up. By the count of Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Mora, over 8,100 people have died violent, drug trafficking-related deaths since Felipe Calderon became president in December 2006. The Brookings Institute recently published a Latin America a href="http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/1124_latin_america_partnership.aspx"report/a that includes a sizable section on drug trafficking- which they consider to be ?at the core of organized crime in the hemisphere? ? and which notes that, this year alone, the same number of people have died in Mexico as have died fighting for the United States in Iraq since the start of our war there almost six years ago. Increasingly, that seems like an understatement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).