Barbarization and Narcocultura

An interesting essay from Small Wars Journal. Mexican drug cartels are openly attacking Mexico's social institutions as well as its state apparatus just as the Colombian drug cartels did in the 80's and 90's.  Simply amazing. America has an essentially open border with a failed state who is engaged in a losing war with several drug cartels while  militarily and diplomatically protecting the territorial integrity of western Europe, Israel, Japan, Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq (amongst others) and using borrowed money to do it too.

Sign of the times...

CBS News is reporting that a Mexican drug gang set off a car bomb to ambush the police in Juarez a Mexican city right across the Rio Grande river from El Paso, Texas. This is a major escalation of the already violent narco war going on at the border. At least three officers were killed. This comes on the heels of reports of snipers popping off shots at the Border Patrol and of stray bullets from previous Juarez shoot-outs landing in El Paso.