Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency

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Anyway, John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus have written an article, "Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency". Apart from murdering Canadian tourists, ill-socialized Mexicans are up to all manner of mayhem:

Grenades are thrown at popular gatherings. Mutilated corpses flood the morgues. Heavily armed gunmen blast police to shreds with high-powered automatic weapons. Just another day in Iraq or Afghanistan? No-all of the events described occur regularly in Mexico. Our southern neighbor is imploding under the weight of a criminal insurgency just as dangerous any crew of bomb-tossing jihadists–an insurgency that may soon envelop our borders.