>
> More than 3,000 people have been killed across the nation this year as the
>> government battles drug trafficking organizations and the gangs, at the same
>> time, fight among themselves over territory and smuggling routes.
>>
>
>
> More than 3,000 is more, far more depending on how you count, than the
> annual number of deaths in the U.S. attributable to cocaine.
>
> What's happening in Mexico could explain rising cocaine prices. In
> California the wholesale cocaine price has gone up over the past year for
> the first time in about a decade. The DEA says that's good because fewer
> people will use if prices rise. They always say that and it's never true.
>
> <
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-mayor8-2008oct08,0,2114610.story
> >
> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-mayor8-2008oct08,0,2114610.story
> From the Los Angeles Times
>
> MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
>
> Snip
Baja is completely out of control. Two weekends ago there were at least four assassinations: cops, journalists, politicians. For a while the Revolucion tourist district in Tijuana was surrounded troops, which didn't exactly convey the "Down Mexico Way" feel that was intended.