- by Jad Jadderson
The drug war years in Mexico have to be some of the worst the country has ever seen. Ramping up in violence since December of 2006 when Mexican President Calderón sent 6,500 troops into battle with organized crime, the resulting civil war-like conditions have left a total of 40 – 50,000 dead on both sides, with an estimated quarter million Mexicans internally displaced. Politicians have not escaped being the victims of drug cartels, with police chiefs, mayors, and others further down the line in state and local municipalities being killed for not cooperating with the cartels, or at least not on a level the cartels wanted. The cartels have even gone to war with social media – beheading bloggers and stringing their dead bodies up from highway overpasses as a message to anyone else considering speaking out locally. < Read More >
