100,000 dead, 30,000 missing: Mexico’s war on drugs turns 10

[rangerrebew]

December 11, 2016, 3:31 PM

100,000 dead, 30,000 missing: Mexico’s war on drugs turns 10

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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, January 8, 2016.

EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico - Ten years after Mexico declared a war on drugs, the offensive has left some major drug cartels splintered and many old-line kingpins like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in jail, but done little to reduce crime or violence in the nation’s roughest regions.

Some say the war has been a crucial, but flawed, effort. Others argue the offensive begun by then-President Felipe Calderon on Dec. 11, 2006, unleashed an unnecessary tragedy with more than 100,000 people dead and about 30,000 missing - a toll comparable to the Central American civil wars of the 1980s.
 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-d...rugs-turns-10/

[rangerrebew]

Have they checked the U.S. for the missing ones?

[Fishrrman]

The only way that Mexico will ever get their drug problems under control will be to implement something of a solution as the Chinese Communists used early on...