Projecting the future of the Mexican drug war

On Sunday, May 8th, 2011, tens of thousands of Mexicans marched to the capital to demonstrate for peace and a change in tactics in the four-1/2 year war launched by Mexican President Felipe Calderon against the cartels controlling the profitable drug trade routes north to the U.S. border.

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Like Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe, Calderon has wielded the mano duro as President, in response to the narco-violence and corruption that have left nearly 35,000 people dead in Mexico since 2006. According to El Universal, Tuesday May 10th, the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Durango reported finding 20 more bodies Monday, including three women, buried in narcoforsas, or clandestine graves, in five separate sites. This brings the total of buried bodies discovered in the last month in the capital city of Durango to 190. The bodies appeared to have been buried for an extended period of time and thus far have not been identified. Eleven male decapitated bodies were also discovered the same day in two separate sites in the capital city. More...

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