Here's an excerpt from my latest article for Homeland Security Today's Correspondents Watch:
"Over the last year-and-a-half, the Mexican government arrested and killed more top Mexican drug lords than it has in at least the last decade. For an administration that is constantly under fire for a drug war strategy that has failed to significantly reduce violence along the US-Mexico border and beyond, these high-profile arrests are hard-won victories against transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). But are they really?"
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The strategy has to start by taking down the high-profile drug lords. Atomization of the drug gangs is good for Mexico, as it makes it possible for smaller governments, municipal and state governments, to take the fight to them locally.
Before, when the drug lords reined, the state governors and municipal presidents were afraid of them, not so much anymore.
The violence comes from the cartels killing each other, in many ways it is even positive for Mexico as we get rid of a lot of drug dealers and gangsters that our judicial system is incapable to arrest and process appropriately. The violence will come down eventually, it has already come down in cities like Tijuana and others that used to make every day headlines because of their violence.
The fight is now going south too, Edo. de Mexico in central Mexico, Veracruz and other states are now.
Posted by: Jose Angel de Monterrey | September 15, 2011 at 06:46 PM
"Divide and Conquer"--it has worked throughout the centuries and will work here too.
Posted by: Beltonwall | September 17, 2011 at 04:47 AM