12,456 killed in Mexico's drug war

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It's getting really bad south of the border. For comparison about 2,000 civilians and military were killed in Afghanistan this year according to the U.N.

Drug cartels are getting more violent and recruiting children to smuggle drugs and murder people.
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IMO, it is actually a necessary evil but they need to be more agressive if they want to advance as a nation. If they let the cartels continue to grow, they will continue to corrupt the government and kill people over the long-term. I think they need to be more agressive.

 

Just another reason to seal the border. The real victims are the Mexican people.

 

So? Who cares about dead drug dealers?

 

It's not the drug dealers that are dying. It's the people standing up to them.

 

Also, innocents caught in the crossfire and those Mexican citizens who live in border towns being held hostage by the actions of these cartels.

 

What is happening is that drugdealers are kidnapping police and now just random citizens and beheading them infront of the police stations or in front of neighborhood entrances as warnings to people not to fuck with them.

 

The death toll averages 34 people a day. They just blew up an oil line yesterday killing 27 people. Here are some of their more despicable attacks this year.

I think sealing the borders will help slow the tide of drugs, guns and money but I wish Calderon would let neighboring countries' military come in to help defeat the drug cartels.

 

MY people know how to do things......... If your gonna do it, might as well do it right.

 

We're already there.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-04-06-Mexico_N.htm

 

Thanks for posting, did not know that.

Mexico also needs to end all the corruption. It's making their fight twice as hard