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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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