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Publications & Resources
 Welcome
to the Devil's Playground - The Current State of The Mexican Drug
War By Edward J. Maggio
Welcome to Hell
May 27th 2008 was a sad day in Mexican history. On that day a botched
police raid in the town of Culiacán turned into a massive
firefight with Mexican drug traffickers. The majority of the drug
traffickers escaped into the Mexican desert after killing seven police
officers. The smell of gunpowder from the armor piercing rounds fired
by the drug traffickers was still in the air a day later. On this
dark day a harsh reality began to settle in among the Mexican people.
The power of the Mexican drug traffickers now surpassed the government
of Mexico. Consider that while the Mexican government's annual budget
for federal security is $7 billion, the Mexican drug cartels traffic
over $30 billion in drugs out of Mexico. Mexican drug traffickers
have more money and more arms to protect a billion dollar plus operation.
This is an illegal industry in which most of the drugs are headed
to the U.S. on a regular basis.
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