A Pax Mafiosa in Mexico?
Mexico’s government has several options for ending the violence of narcotics-related organized crime that is devastating the country and corrupting and weakening its political system. But only two are advisable, and they are neither easy to apply nor guaranteed to work.
MEXICO CITY -- The recent killing of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, a boss of the Sinaloa drug gang, by Mexican special forces is but the latest high profile killing in an increasingly violent campaign. But is a strategy of killing off Mexico’s drug kingpins really viable?