State of War

Foreign Policy by Sam Quinones | Feb. 21, 2009 (Special Report)
Mexico’s hillbilly drug smugglers have morphed into a raging insurgency. Violence claimed more lives there last year alone than all the Americans killed in the war in Iraq. And there’s no end in sight.

I’ve traveled through most of Mexico’s 31 states. I’ve written two books about the country. And yet I now struggle to recognize the place. Mexico is wracked by a criminal-capitalist insurgency. It is fighting for its life. And most Americans seem to have no idea what’s happening right next door. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Feb. 21, 2009

We should be grateful for a story this deep on the woefully under-reported topic of drug violence in Mexico. I wonder if this could have been written in a slightly more disinterested tone -- at points I find the authors first-person voice too strong. Then again, absent solid intelligence on the issue, this may have been the only way.

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