Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-usmexico-border-where-the-drugs-war-has-soaked-the-ground-blood-red-1924634.html

The border between Mexico and the United States is chaotically reverting to historical type, the place of horror it was for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 19,000 people in Mexico have been slaughtered in drug violence since 2006, the year the conservative Felipe Calderon was elected president and began deploying some 50,000 troops and federal police in support of the US-convened struggle against street drugs.