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All the drug busts in Mexico seem to make no difference. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
All the drug busts in Mexico seem to make no difference. (Image via Wikimedia.org)

Mexico Drug War Update

Mexico's prohibition-related violence, with all its spectacular and horrifying brutality, continues unabated.
Bust after bust... and still no impact besides more violence. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Bust after bust... and still no impact besides more violence. (Image via Wikimedia.org)

Mexico Drug War Update

As prohibition-related violence continues unabated, peace marchers are heading for Ciudad Juarez.
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)

Mexico Drug War Update

No end in sight for the prohibition-related violence plaguing Mexico. The hit men just keep on coming.
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)

Mexico Drug War Update

After more than four year's of Calderon's drug war, there is no end in sight to the violence.

Escalating Drug Prohibition Violence in Northern Mexico Overwhelms Authorities

Northern Mexico’s drug prohibition war continues to claim victims, with more than 360 bodies discovered in mass graves just last week. The situation in Northern Mexico is devolving into chaos as prohibition-created organizations fight for control of the lucrative Northern Mexico drug route into the United States. The Mexican government is powerless to end the violence. Overpowered authorities basically have abandoned the area, recognizing their inability to restore any sort of order to the area.

US Cattle Inspectors Leave Mexico Amid Drug Prohibition War

For years, these inspections have been conducted before cattle cross the border, but the drug prohibition war has prompted the U.S. to move some of its operations north. The change, instituted over the past year at three of the 11 ports along the U.S.-Mexico border, is drawing concern from some cattle raisers, who fear infections long eradicated in the U.S. but still showing up in Mexico will spread before inspection. The change is supposed to be temporary, although there are no immediate plans for the American inspectors to return to Mexico.

Border Region Lives in Fear Amid Mexico's Drug Prohibition War

Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon militarized his country's battle to continue drug prohibition in December 2006, more than 34,600 have died in prohibition violence. Along with the violence has grown a pervasive culture of corruption and fear. After the discovery of the most recent mass graves, 16 police officers were detained under suspicion of involvement. Despite the government's promises of security and increased aid, many remain unconvinced, and say that governmental control in the region is visible little, if at all.
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Drug prohibition funds the bloody mayhem in Mexico (Image via Wikimedia.org)

Mexico Drug War Update

Mexicans marched against drug war mayhem by the tens of thousands over the weekend, but the hit men didn't even break stride.