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  • May 28, 2011
    Big Peace
    U.S. Gun Laws: Mexico’s Favorite Scapegoat for Drug Violence
    … control measures echo the Mexican government’s arguments. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton epitomized that approach during a trip to Mexico in March 2009. On her arrival in Mexico City she said: “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • April 18, 2011
    National Interest (Online)
    Mexico’s Drug War Body Count Mounts
    The past two weeks have produced yet more gruesome episodes in Mexico’s bloody drug wars. Mass graves discovered in northern Mexico contain at least 145 bodies, up from 116 three days earlier. And that toll may grow. An already …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • March 28, 2011
    National Interest (Online)
    Ugly American Strategy: The Growing U.S. Security Presence in Mexico
    … direct U.S. involvement in that conflict. Some of the measures are so intrusive that they create considerable controversy inside Mexico and even raise questions about Washington’s respect for Mexico’s sovereignty. When the story broke earlier this month …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • March 11, 2011
    National Interest (Online)
    Are Lax U.S. Gun Laws Fueling Mexico’s Drug Violence?
    During his recent summit meeting in Washington with President Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon again pressed the United States to tighten its restrictions on firearms. It has become an article of faith in Mexico – and among many pundits in this …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • November 23, 2010
    National Interest (Online)
    Mexico Bleeds over the Border
    … of 2010, because just weeks earlier, the DEA had warned that the cartels were about to take their war from Mexico north of the border and attack U.S. law enforcement personnel. Sometimes, the spillover of Mexico’s violence is …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • October 13, 2010
    USA Today
    U.S. in Slumber as Mexico Drug War Rages
    It takes a brave person to be a reporter in Mexico these days if the intent is to cover the drug cartels. More than 30 journalists have been killed since 2006, making Mexico perhaps the most dangerous place in the …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • September 20, 2010
    National Interest (Online)
    Monterrey: The Latest Casualty in Mexico’s Drug War
    … led offensive against the various drug cartels in December 2006. It is a development that is causing great alarm among Mexico’s political and economic elite. Americans living in Mexico are now directly feeling the impact as well. Affluent Americans …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • September 13, 2010
    National Interest (Online)
    Violence in Mexico, Communism’s a Flop, and Other Startling Discoveries
    … at least a generation. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed a rapt audience at the Council on Foreign Relations that Mexico’s drug violence was taking on the characteristics of a full blown insurgency, and that the country was beginning …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
  • August 11, 2010
    National Interest (Online)
    Mexico’s Faltering Drug War
    … of which $1.3 billion is allocated to Mexico. But that policy is failing, and there are even fears that Mexico is lurching toward failed state status. Now, Mexico’s own political elite may be poised to repudiate the current …
    By Ted Galen Carpenter
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