Mexico, Failed State?

37 people were killed in Tijuana over the weekend, four of whom were children and nine of whom were decapitated. This year, 4,500 people have been killed in Mexico in drug-related violence. An article in Forbes calls Mexico “the Next Disaster.” “The explosion of narco terror comes alongside a precipitous drop in oil prices and the crushing effects of a deep U.S. recession,” Forbes writes. Says the American drug czar: “The consequences if President Calderón fails and the institutions of government, at least in the northern part of his country, become controlled by terrorist mafias--well, we worry about ungoverned spaces far away from the U.S., and this is right next door.”