In Mexico: Anxiety, evasion and addiction: How citizens deal with endless violence

[TomSea]

In Mexico: Anxiety, evasion and addiction: How citizens deal with endless violence
Pulse News Agency International by AFP
Between anxiety, addiction and evasion, Mexicans have found coping mechanisms to deal with the violence plaguing their country and which peaked in 2017 to the highest level in two decades.

The year is not yet over, but the number of murders committed in November reached 23,101, according to a government registry of violent deaths, the highest count since the tally was launched in 1997, and topping the 22,409 killed in 2011 when the big drugs cartels started to fracture.

The statistics do not show how many of the deaths were linked to narco-trafficking, but experts believe the majority were attributable to the wave of drugs-related violence that has risen incessantly since 2006, when the government launched all-out war on Mexico's powerful cartels.

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[Fishrrman]

This kind of continuously-escalating violence will only be stopped by a military government operating under martial law, which will then have the power to round up and execute drug cartel members without having to try them in courts of law first.

I don't see any other path by which to get it under control.