Violence on Mexican Border Could Worsen
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.06.08 | 1:56 PM ET
Drug-related crime and violence have taken a toll on tourism in Mexican border cities like Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, which have offered Americans a quick, cheap taste of international travel. Now, the Mexican government’s effort to break up powerful Mexican drug cartels brings some more bad news for would-be tourists and those who benefit from their dollars, at least for the short term.
Reports the San Diego Union-Tribune, border violence will likely get worse before it gets better.
As one expert explained: “The Mexican government has said that their strategy is to attack the cartels and break them down to a more manageable size. The problem with breaking cartels up into smaller, supposedly more manageable pieces is that it becomes disorganized crime. You start to have people who are broken off, fractionalized, fighting among each other.”
That’s right. What’s worse than organized crime? Disorganized crime, it seems.
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