The War Just Across The Border

From CBS News:

(CBS) To show they're making headway against the hyper-violent drug cartels, soldiers in Tijuana trumpeted their latest big arrest: Stew Man - a cartel lieutenant who confessed to disposing of 300 bodies by dissolving them in vats of acid, CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports.

But there's even more evidence the cartels are operating with near impunity as they wage bloody battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the U.S. It's only 28 days into the new year and already there have been 400 drug-related slayings across Mexico.

Last year ended with a grisly flourish: 12 soldiers were found decapitated with this note: "For every one of us you kill, we'll kill 10."

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Update: Mexico Drug Bosses May Have Set Truce -- Los Angeles Times

My Comment: I am sure that some "big players" may want to bring about some "peace" to the business ..... but there are too many hands in the till, the cartel leaders are now either dead, in jail, or in hiding, and the Mexican Government is determined to break the stranglehold of these drug gangs.

This war is going to get more bloodier before it ends.

And what will the U.S. do to help in this just and righteous war ..... hmmmm .... I have no idea.