Drug Cartels Declare War on Mexican Government

Published by The Watchdog March 24th, 2007

The war between Mexico’s drug cartels and the state intensified this week, with a death toll of nine police officers and others this week.
Prosecutors, lawyers and investigators have been targeted in the violence, and in a new twist, corpses are being delivered to the state’s attorney offices with warning notes gruesomely attached.

Since year’s begin, 515 people have died - on Wednesday alone, it was seven.

In his four months in office, Calderon has sent some 30,000 members of the country’s security forces to the areas most affected by the drug trade, and his government has extradited four drug barons to the US, including Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cardenas Guillen.

Mexican drug bosses and their organizations are incredibly rich and powerful, and they have infiltrated the state’s security apparatus.