While few on this side of the border pay attention, the drug war in Mexico is looking more like an honest to goodness shooting war. It's a bad time to be a policeman in Juarez, where 17 cops are among the 400 (!!) homicide victims so far this year.
Of course that sort of thing won't be contained by a line on a map. Thomason hospital in El Paso is on lockdown again while a casualty is tended to.
Update: Some recommended reading on the subject.
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