4 More than anyone else in Mexico, Calderón has blood on his hands. He called fifteen teenagers who were mowed down at a party by Juárez cartel hitmen “thugs.” In fact, they were students and athletes. Calderón had no sympathy for those murdered in drug war violence. For six years as the death toll climbed and drugs flowed unimpeded through the country, El Presidente insisted that the war was being won. The power of the drug cartels to kill, corrupt, and elude capture has grown exponentially as have their profits.įormer president Felipe Calderón unleashed la guerra contra las drogas upon his inauguration in 2006. Drugs cross the heavily fortified US-Mexican border far more easily than do migrants seeking work in the United States. Mexico continues to be a major exporter of heroin and marijuana and a central transshipment point for cocaine from Andean South America bound for the United States. This bloody war, ostensibly to rid the country of illegal drugs and drug trafficking, has been a grisly failure. Women are raped and murdered with impunity, and journalists who expose law enforcement corruption are kidnapped and killed. Dead bodies with mouths duct taped shut hang from busy commuter bridges. Dismembered body parts are left on streets and found decomposing in barrels of acid. Drug cartel sicarios (assassins), the military, and police have committed atrocities and violated human rights countless times. Armed with military grade weapons including grenade launchers, the drug gangs are an equal match for Mexican soldiers and police. ![]() 3 Entire cities and towns have erupted into war zones chock-full with military checkpoints and drug cartel roadblocks. 2 A major investigation into narcofosas(mass graves) in Mexico by the magazine Milenio found the corpses of 24,000 people. 1 More than 20,000 people have disappeared and a quarter of a million have been displaced. In just six years, 70,000 people have been killed, but some estimate the number is a staggering 120,000. The level of violence and slaughter is similar to conventional warfare. THE MEXICAN drug war is a killing machine.
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