Comment About drugs? Not anymore (Score 2) 627
This is not only about drug traffic anymore. These cartels are expanding into 23 different delictive activities (search for Eduardo Buscaglia's conferences and interviews in Youtube), and are now trying to control and enslave the whole population. At the Mexican/American border on the affected areas. city authorities live and work on the American side. In the big cities of the Northeast there is a stampede of rich people moving to the USA in what is called the "golden migration". This is the class of northern entrepreneurs that helped defeat the leftist candidate in 2006 presidential elections claiming his "little strange ideas were a danger to Mexico" with help from Spanish and American PR advisors. Under the new conservative government the economy imploded, hordes of young people have become part of organized crime, and the people that started the problem are running away from it leaving the underclasses to deal with it any way they can, as long as it doesn't mean electing a leftist government.