Is Mexico’s drug war strategy working?
Thugs with nicknames like El Piolin, El providential and El Amarillo.But the violence attributed to the Zetas has not decreased even behind these busts, and critics wonder if names are meaningless if they are so quickly replaced.And a majority of Mexicos most-wanted drug traffickers, 22 prevented of 37, obtain been lay prevented of commission, but to I beg your pardon? benefit? on I beg your pardon? cost?Mexico has paid an vast price: almost 50,000 inactive, almost $50 billion in the sphere of further security outlay, always supplementary numerous being privileges violations, and a utter discrediting of the population to the globe, wrote Jorge Castaneda, a ex- Mexican foreign minister and critic of the current strategy, in the sphere of the Spanish newspaper El Pais.Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and his backers happening the U.S. government, meanwhile, maintain so as to the militarized abusive is paying dividends and so as to a revolving top is close on furnish.