The Terror
9th November 2010
Vanity Fair looks at northern Mexico.
During the past several years, drug-related violence in northern Mexico has soared to unprecedented levels as drug cartels wage war on one another—and on anyone deemed uncooperative, unfriendly, or otherwise inconvenient. There have been more than 28,000 killings since 2006. And, inexorably, the violence is spreading northward, into the United States—whose appetite for drugs is largely responsible for the present tragedy. Ed Vulliamy is a writer for The Guardian and The Observer who has traveled the length of the U.S.-Mexico border to report on the breakdown of civil society and the outbreak of the drug wars. His extraordinary new book, Amexica: War Along the Borderline, will be published next month. Here is an excerpt.
Perhaps we might want to bring some of those fine young men back from Afghanistan and put them along our southern border; you know, just in case.
And maybe, oh, I don’t know, build a wall or something.
November 9th, 2010 at 11:47
Interesting article, except for the part about gun smuggling. People who move tons of cocaine can move tons of anything, including guns. Raids turn up fully automatic rifles, RPGs, 30 and 50 cal. machine guns – none of which are being sold at Texas gun shows.
Isn’t it shocking how no one cares to point out that if we SEALED the border, there would be no problems with immigration, drug smuggling, or gun shipments.