Mexico in free fall (and this will move north)

[nadinbrzezinski]

The crisis consists in nothing less than an effort by the major drug cartels to tame and suborn the Mexican state, and not just in the strip along the US border, though the epicentre of the crisis is there. Obviously, the cartels' leaders do not have designs on Mexico's presidential palace. But, through a policy of terror extending from Oaxaca in the south, through Acapulco on the Pacific coast, and up to the great border cities of Tijuana and Juarez (Mexico's sixth and seventh most populous cities, respectively), they have made it abundantly clear that they are trying to achieve impunity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/25/mexico-drugs-trade

Fact is that this didn't start last night, or last week.

And This is not only an internal threat, a war in Mexico, but will pose a threat to the US. it already is