Drug 'War with No End in Sight' Puts Spotlight on Mexican Military Mark Browne - CNSNews.com
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Ten years after former Mexican President Felipe Calderon more than doubled the number of troops fighting Mexico’s drug cartels, supply routes to the U.S. “remain open,” and Mexico’s military is bogged down in a “war with no end in sight,” according to a report by a leading international risk consultancy.

Responding to a “massive market” for illegal drugs in the U.S., Mexico’s drug cartels now increasingly send domestically produced heroin and methamphetamine across the border, according to the report issued Tuesday by the Texas-based consultancy Stratfor.

The report predicts that Mexico’s drug war, which analysts agree has resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 Mexicans in the past ten years, is now on course to “continue for decades.”

And the Mexican government is not likely to give up its battle with the cartels because shutting off the flow of drugs is a “fundamental part of its relationship” with the U.S. government, the report notes.

On a positive note, the report says that Mexico has seen limited success increasing security in Ciudad Juarez and parts of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon.

But it found little improvement in the security situation nationwide 10 years after Calderon sent 45,000 troops – double the numbers previously deployed – into the streets to fight the cartels and rising crime.

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