Border

Nine more dirty cops this week. Of four incidents, two were on the border.

More cartel drug busts, more dead bodies, no apparent impact on the flow of drugs north and cash south.

The Mexican president gave his annual state of the union speech last week, but that had no impact on the killing.

The University of Texas-El Paso Border Security Conference saw a shift announced in Plan Merida priorities and a lot of happy talk about defeating the cartels, but little discussion of ending the drug war.

Two of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination had comments related to drug policy this week, and it wasn't pretty.

CIA agents and US mercenaries stationed at a military base in northern Mexico are helping fight the drug cartels. And the killing continues...

You know things are messed up when the federal police are shooting at the head of the Ciudad Juarez police. Oh, and 216 more people were killed there in the drug wars last month.

At an absolute minimum, at least 74 people were killed in prohibition-related violence in Mexico in the last week. Sad to say, there's nothing unusual about the death toll.

The Mexican government appears to be going after the Zetas, which must please the cartel's rivals.

Mexico's president feels "misunderstood" about his bloody drug war, but the killings continue despite his hurt feelings.