Allan Wall just posted some new info and it is not pretty:
"In the nine-month period under review here, January through September of 2011, Chihuahua state had 2,276 deaths related to organized crime reported.
As a point of comparison, in Afghanistan, from January through October 2011, there were 2,177 civilians killed.
That means, per capita, that a resident of Mexico's Chihuahua state is nine times more likely to be killed in drug cartel related violence than a resident of Afghanistan by anti-government forces. (The rates are 67 per 100,000 in Chihuahua versus 7 per 100,000 inhabitants in Afghanistan.)
Of the Chihuahua total, 402 of these killings took place in Chihuahua City, the state capital. But Ciudad Juarez, at 1,206 killings, accounted for about 53 percent.
So things did not look good in 2011. The violence continues as the drug gangs continue to battle each other and the government security forces.
Furthermore, it's been estimated that, since Felipe Calderon took office in December of 2006, over 50,000 have been slain in the cartel-related violence."
We do not have figures for every state but Chihuahua's murder rate is as bad as it gets.
We are watching a perfect storm.
First, we consume billions of dollars. Yes, we consume and that's why the cartels are on our border. Like any other business, they want to be near their customer and the customer is us.
We can not continue to overlook this reality. We are consuming the drugs. Every dollar that we consume supports the cartel and the killing.
Second, our unwillingness to secure the border has made it easy for criminal elements to bring drugs into the country. As we've posted before, it's time to put "boots on the ground" and stop these people from coming.
Third, it did not help when a misguided policy put 2,000 guns in the hands of the cartels.
We are not talking about Mexico in this campaign. The Obama administration is avoiding Mexico and border security because they are in full "coqueteo" mode to energize "Mexicanos" to vote.
I hope that Gov Romney will call for strict border security, the expansion of The Merida Plan, and full prosecution of the "genius" in the Obama administration that put those guns in the hands of the cartels.
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