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US media, leaders, refocusing on Mexico in wake of cartel violence

It seems like the national media is just now, finally, catching on that feuds between transnational drug cartels and the Mexican government have become a bigger, immediate security problem for America than anything happening in the Middle East. Here are several recent items that indicate the media and US leaders are thinking more seriously about the issue than at any time in recent memory:Barack Obama to visit Mexico: Drug war, immigration to be discussed, El Paso Times, March 19Drug cartels' new weaponry means war," LA Times, March 15. "Narcotics traffickers are acquiring firepower more appropriate to an army -- including grenade launchers and antitank rockets."Houston's underworld connection with Mexican drug cartels, The New Criminologist, March 16...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).