“The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high.
Or is it?”
http://www.texasbookfestival.org/Author_Page.php?aid=4318
"El Narco"
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141650194/el-narco-the-trade-driving-mexicos-drug-war
http://www.bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/el_narco_hc_113
New York Times Series on Drug Violence:
"Juarez: Children in the Crossfire"
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/04/16/world/1194839575631/ju-rez-children-in-the-crossfire.html
"All the money. All the guns. All that financed by drug use. All of that! We lost our little boy."
Reminds me of this powerful film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSi0pKjC5g