Since Mexico's President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders. Just last weekend, 49 decapitated bodies were reportedly discovered on a highway in northern Mexico. The New York Times reports on an increasing numbness and apathy among Mexicans after years of worsening carnage, about which they've been able to do virtually nothing. Gathered here is a collection of recent photographs from Mexico's drug war and the people so horribly affected by it. [44 photos]
Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full. There are many dead bodies; the photographs are graphic and stark. This is the reality of the situation in Mexico right now.
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That's not many compared to the amount of money brought in to the state over six years.
ReplyDeleteSad to say, we kill that many american boys in afghanistan keeping their drug trade open.
4:04 what? Check your numbers. The 10 year war in Afghanistan is no where near 50,000. Your facts are off.
ReplyDelete3,500 dead in Afghanistan genious
ReplyDeleteThe border is still safer than Chicago on the weekend.
ReplyDeleteFast and Furious! The OBAMA/HOLDER gun giveaway conspiracy devised to attack the second amendment. NOT the program from GW Bush. That program was immediately cancelled.
And poor Rahm Emanuel?
Over 400 murders in Chicago and it's only October. Need I tell the No. 1 male story?
STOP the DRUGS at the BORDER! Eliminate the Cartels. No demand, no sales, no jobs, no Cartel's in business.
Obama should be good at that as its exactly what he's done to America!
How is that 40 year old "War On Drugs" going, fella's? Remember, the Mexicans have deployed their Marines and Special Forces (!) against the drug gangs (and, their civilians, too) and they STILL can't stop it. The IMMUTABLE Law of Supply and Demand. ANY of you think the police and politicians in THIS country are ALSO not helping "arrange", transport, protect, "look the other way", and finance the unbelievably huge amounts of every kind of drug there is as it enters and traverses USA?? If so, let me tell you now --- you are impossibly naive. Their ARMY can't stop it and they are much more vicious than OURS. We better find a new approach. And, by the way, "more of the same" would not be considered a "new approach".
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