Mexican Cartel Violence Highlights Security Issues

By Paul McLeary
Washington

Over the past five years Mexico has been the scene of some of the world’s most gruesome violence—car bombs, beheadings and mass executions—in a multifront war that pits the government against powerful drug cartels, the cartels against one another, and both against innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.

The result of this violence has been the murder of 28,000 ...

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