This is horrible news - the actual possibility of Mexico becoming an all out Failed State (1, 2). We all know that the country's problem have been so endemic that its without question to consider it as a failing state. What is not questioned or even addressed is the underpinning reasons for its failures.

I will bring evidence of various nefarious acts by the US government on not only terrorizing Mexico but also creating the very process that have led Mexico to disaster.

Below is the article link describing the current state of Mexico and some quotes from the article. In my upcoming postings I hope to describe the causes and consequences of Mexico's failing state.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/121509

"President-elect Barack Obama met Monday with Mexican President Felipe Calderón to discuss bilateral issues of major importance for the two countries. In addition to NAFTA and immigration policy, Mexico's ongoing plague of prohibition-related violence was high on the agenda."

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"This week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff jumped on the bandwagon. In their report, The Joint Operating Environment 2008, which examines global threats to the US, the Joint Chiefs warned that Mexico was one of the two countries most in danger of becoming a failed state. The other was Pakistan.

“The Mexican possibility may seem less likely,” the report noted, “but the government, its politicians, police, and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone.”

But for all the dire warnings of doom, the incoming president gave little sign that he would do anything other than stay the course. Nor did he suggest in any way that he would make a radical break with US drug policy on the border. Obama has stated publicly that he supports the Mérida Initiative aid package, and Monday he limited his public remarks to generalities."