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.”
Read it at Forbes
