Mexico Drug War, Five Years Later (Plog)
►http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/12/21/in-focus-mexico-drug-war-five-years-later/5151
A graphic picture is emerging in Mexico five years after President Felipe Calderon launched his all-out assault on organized crime: Mass killings as cartels fight each other for territory and civilians caught in the violence; police unable to prevent the mayhem or to investigate the aftermath. The government needed to act decisively, he said, to prevent organized crime from taking over the country. Over the next five years, he deployed 45,000 troops, made major hits on the leadership of at least five cartels and spent nearly $46 billion fighting organized crime, his defining domestic policy. (...) Source: Plog