Most of us are familiar with Ciudad Juarez and the exploding violence in the north of Mexico.
However, we may soon be hearing about Veracruz, a coastal state on the Gulf of Mexico that has seen a lot of cartel violence.
Pres Calderon recently spoke about it. He also admitted that Veracruz is deteriorating. We also saw a great editorial from The Dallas Morning News:
"When the president of Mexico issues such a stark warning, he’s talking about a problem whose scope goes far beyond drug trafficking.
Veracruz is the heartland of Mexico’s oil industry and home to the country’s second-largest gulf oil export facility, a major supplier to Houston’s refineries.
Mexico’s state-owned oil industry has enriched the country’s corrupt political elite for decades.
When a lucrative enterprise already vulnerable to abuse joins with new-style drug cartel thuggery, a perfect storm is on the horizon.
As this newspaper has noted before, the cartels are diversifying into fields unrelated to drugs.
In Veracruz, the cartels have an opportunity to move into contraband oil and open vast new markets. According to reports around Veracruz in the past year, this scenario already is unfolding."
Is Veracruz a 'failed state" within Mexico? I don't know but let's hope that the Obama administration is keeping an eye on the deteriorating situation south of the border.
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