Reading at 3:15 Thursday Morning
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From an article titled,
"Mexico a Struggle for Balance"
“…Mexico was nearing the status of a failed state.
In revisiting this issue, it seems to us that the Mexican government has lost control of the northern tier of Mexico to drug-smuggling organizations, which have significantly greater power in that region than government forces.
“…The
Narcotics derive from low-cost agricultural products that become consumable with minimal processing.
With its long, shared border with the
This means extraordinary profits can be made by moving narcotics from the Mexican side of the border to markets on the other side…
The result is ongoing warfare between competing organizations…
“Indeed, what the wars are being fought over in some ways benefits
The amount of money pouring into
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