Signs point to Mexican government in cartels' pocket

Via: LA Times

"Reporting from Mexico City -- In the tense state of Durango, Roman Catholic Archbishop Hector Gonzalez announced over the weekend that the fugitive drug trafficker who tops Mexico's most wanted list was living nearby.

And everyone knows it, he added. Except, it would seem, the authorities, who fail to make an arrest.

A shocking revelation indeed. But in Durango, most local newspapers and television stations declined to report the comments, and for some reason national papers that contained the remarks did not appear on many newsstands."

When stories like this come out it's pretty apparent we already lost this war before the US even gets actively involved in fighting it. If the Mexican cartels' can simply buy off Mexican political leaders and police forces then they have already won any increased armed conflict that the policies of the United States regarding the Mexican drug war may incite.