[Pining_4_TX]

Does it seem that Mexico is a failed state? I wonder if anyone is really in charge there, and that is way too close for comfort. We ought to be more concerned with what is happening there than on the other side of the world.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They have had a ruling class for years..., but it seems to be coming unwound.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I will admit, at least 60% of America will be “shocked, shocked!” when news bursts of “Massive Armed Invasion From Mexico Yesterday.”

[NeverForgetBataan]

“Does it seem that Mexico is a failed state?”

To say that Mexico is a failed state is too generous because that implies that at some point it was functional.

Living with Mexico is like owning an MG. It’s just a day to day negotiation with what’s broken or is going to break. Mexico is and always has been a corrupt world cesspool that is “stable” only to a greater or lesser extent. The corruption will never go away because its in the very DNA of Mexicans.

[miliantnutcase]

The similarities between mexico and somalia are astounding.

[righttackle44]

I wonder if anyone is really in charge there, . . .

Yes, there is. It's a guy who runs a little Mexican ice
cream cart in Nogales, Sonora. He's in charge of his cart,
which he leases, and he's in charge of his ice cream,which
he buys wholesale on the Arizona side of the border.

Other than that, there's no one else in charge.