El Corazón de Frida by autotelic

As the peso and Mexican stocks fall against the  now depressingly familiar background of soaring food prices Mexican drug cartels   desperate to retain control of their own lucrative drugs markets have hit back at a Mexican Government led campaign to break them up by murdering 5 high ranking  policemen in the last week.

At the funeral of one of the victims Mexican President Felipe Calderon said  , 'We have to come together to confront this evil, we Mexicans have to definitively and categorically say, 'That's enough!' adding "We can't accept this situation, we have to take back our streets."

Despite deploying 25,000 troops to smash the drug cartels who are responsible for most of the dope, coke and speed that hits the streets in the US and Canada ,  the Mexican authorities are  struggling as the cartels respond to official pressure put on them with precision killings of policemen and other authority figures and the use of ruthless lethal violence against anyone else they consider to be a threat to them.

There were 2,500 drugs related killings in Mexico last year and there have been 1,100 up to May this year.The cartels are effectively operating as terrorist organisations funded by North American drug users who may well face price rises for their drugs as the battle between the cartels and the Mexican Government committed to breaking their murderous grip on Mexican society ratchets up. 

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