Today’s Mexidata features a fretful report warning of the Mexican cartels’ ability to not only sustain, but expand their operations after more than three years of President Calderon’s militarized war on them.
John Sullivan and Adam Elkus’ Mexican Crime Families: Political Aims and Social Plans frame the narcos in geopolitical military terms in their opening grafs:
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