“Tens of thousands protested drug violence this weekend. Many blame the president.”
Here’s the story by Sara Miller Llana in The Christian Science Monitor.
In August alone, the teenage son of a Mexican businessman was found dead in the trunk of a car, after being kidnapped at a fake police checkpoint; a dozen decapitated bodies were discovered in the southern state of Yucatán; and in northern Chihuahua state, gunmen fired on a dance hall, killing 13 people, including a baby.
Mexicans have long been fed up with the escalating violence. But 20 months after conservative President Felipe Calderón launched a massive military effort against drug violence, the bloodshed has only gotten worse.
Mr. Calderón has scrambled to assuage public outrage, signing a national pact this month with the country’s leaders to improve anticorruption measures for cops and form new antikidnapping squads. But the pressure is on.
Read the whole story here.
I wonder how people and politicians alike don’t see the connection between this and the “war on drugs”. Legalize the stuff and most of this goes away.
Here we agree.