This Might Work Better Than Whining About Guns in America

This Might Work Better Than Whining About Guns in America

From the March 4, 2009 Daily Mail:

Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico's most violent city.
Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend.
The city - just across from El Paso in Texas - has been ravaged by drug gangs. Just this month 250 people were killed there by hitmen fighting for lucrative smuggling routes.
The soldiers' mandate is clear - and ambitious.
'This is to reinforce the operation in general ... to eradicate kidnappings, extortion, assaults and homicide,' army spokesman Enrique Torres said.
The soldiers are the first contingent of as many as 5,000 troops and federal police being sent to Juarez.

It's mostly pictures--but very interesting pictures--and not much text. Still, it would appear that the Mexican government has decided to deal with a situation that has no real parallel in the United States by sending in enough troops to do the job. Sending the military to do civilian police work is often a bad idea--the missions are very different. But it sounds like the situation in Juarez had gotten completely out of control.