Mexico, where would we be without you? We’d probably be free of disease, have less of a drug problem, and we’d have about 761,610 square miles of inhabitable land. All jokes aside about conquest, the most recent President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, launched a war on drug cartels and corruption in general. In Tijuana and also Ciudad Juárez, the army ordered that all local police officers surrender their weapons, as it is suspected that many officers have ties with drug cartels. This move definitely stepped on enough toes to generate a war zone in these major border cities.
This blog has a suggestion for Felipe, from one world leader to another. How about focusing on your northern border control issues? If you stop the revenue source of the cartels, will you not eventually send them into a fiscal and emotional depression? What do you think? How would you subdue over a century of corruption if you were in charge?