Is Mexico approaching failed state status?
As a break from covering the West Texas Pogrom, Grits for Breakfast has this post about the deteriorating situation in Mexico. This is a response to my giving him, in a comment to a previous post on this subject, a pointer to this post by Fabius Maximus on the Mexican situation, and he has elaborated on this from other sources.
Six police officials were assassinated in a week's time recently, including the head of the federal police, the highest ranking law enforcement officer in Mexico. The main suspects in the federal police chief's murder are other federal police officers with ties to the Sinaloa cartel. Such high-profile police killings have been going on for a while now, but their frequency and boldness has grown exponentially. The Chicago Tribune reports reported that:
Mexican authorities said Monday that Millan Gomez's slaying was an inside job organized by the Sinaloa cartel. The murder has bolstered skeptics from both U.S. political parties who have questioned whether aid from the Merida Initiative could end up in the wrong hands.
The bottom line is that the rule of law is practically non-existent in Mexico along their northern border at the moment, and -- if it weren't for the drug war aspects of all of this -- it would not be that different from the 1910-1921 period, the last time Mexico had a major uprising.
Six police officials were assassinated in a week's time recently, including the head of the federal police, the highest ranking law enforcement officer in Mexico. The main suspects in the federal police chief's murder are other federal police officers with ties to the Sinaloa cartel. Such high-profile police killings have been going on for a while now, but their frequency and boldness has grown exponentially. The Chicago Tribune reports reported that:
Mexican authorities said Monday that Millan Gomez's slaying was an inside job organized by the Sinaloa cartel. The murder has bolstered skeptics from both U.S. political parties who have questioned whether aid from the Merida Initiative could end up in the wrong hands.
The bottom line is that the rule of law is practically non-existent in Mexico along their northern border at the moment, and -- if it weren't for the drug war aspects of all of this -- it would not be that different from the 1910-1921 period, the last time Mexico had a major uprising.