Counting the cost of Mexico's drug violence

Five years ago, Mexico President Felipe Calderon launched a war on drug cartels.

Since then at least 40,000 people have been killed in drug-related crimes, according to official figures.

But the government stopped updating its total figure at the end of 2010, making it difficult to track progress in 2011.

Political scientist Eduardo Guerrero puts the total at 47,500, if deaths reported in the newspapers this year are included. Others believe the government has been too narrow in its definitions and the total could be approaching 60,000.

Where do the cartels get their guns and their money from? And which Mexican states are the worst affected?

Couple years back I read where in one way or another, illegal aliens kill a minimum of 12 Americans per day.

So, extrapolate that out:

12x365=4,380 per year

10x4,380=43,800 per decade

And the bloody politicians and LSM utters not a word about it.

Yes, the guns are coming from the U.S.

But let's call it what it is. State-sponsored terrorism.
On this side of the border it's violations of the RICO Act. In Mexico and Honduras it's state-sponsored terrorism.
What else would you call heavily arming international criminal syndicates within a foreign country wherein that country is in a death struggle with those syndicates?
Especially when it goes beyond thousands of assault rifles to include grenades, RPGs, shoulder fired rockets, anti-aircraft guns, night vision equipment, body armor and special deals to bring their drugs onto our soil with legal impunity?
Not to mention the just-revealed news that the rip crew that killed BP Agent Brian Terry was there with DEA and FBI assistance and approval to attack and kill a rival cartel's smuggling crew.
Let's not leave out the FBI and DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.
It's organized, it is spread through every Federal LEA and it violates numerous domestic laws and numerous statutes and treaties that deal with foreign nations. Yet none of it has been officially sanctioned. It's the FedGov acting like mafiosa.
0bama, Holder and Hillary Clinton are all deeply involved in this and it is state-sponsored terrorism. These Chicago machine Marxist thugs are dragging our country down to the level of Tehran and Pyongyang.

The guns are coming from the U.S. government. The 0baMao administration to be precise.

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