[Starboard]

the Army’s [former] senior adviser for law-of-war issues, said drug cartels were not engaged in “hostilities”

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Poisoning large numbers of people is about as hostile as you can get.

[lastchance]

Could be he is on the board of some companies heavily involved in products that make up “Standard American Diet, aka SAD”. You can understand then that raising the alarm about poisoning large numbers of people would be against his best interests.

[Vigilanteman]

Ask any educated Mexican if their government is at war with the drug cartels. They will tell you that if they can't buy you off, then they are. Farmers are killed for refusing to grow narcotic crops for the cartels and political candidates and officials alike are assassinated for refusing to cooperate with them.

As a Mexican co-worker told me 'don't think that it is so much different in your country.'