Huge quantities of illegal drugs pour into the USA across the border everyday. Something that has been going on for many years. If your law enforcement is so great, why is this allowed to happen? You cannot controll illegal gun sales. With such unlimited resources, what seems to be the problem?
Those are good questions. US law enforcement does seem to have several issues with corruption and efficiency.
Sure. These are probably the highest profile murders in Mexico this year, so these might be the exception that actually get solved. Maybe. Still, most of the tens of thousands of murders in Mexico each year go unsolved.
The OPs argument is indeed very incomplete.
Those like the OP insisting that Mexico is a failed state are not taking into account how there is a big middle, one where Mexico is located.
Best stable nations:
Switzerland
Norway
Finland
Most fragile ones (or *failed *as it was the name of the index earlier):
Yemen
Somalia
South Sudan
Mexico does get into the warning area, Brazil is in a worst place BTW.
And thanks in part also with the corrupting nature of the drug war and Trump’s corrupted view of corruption, the USA is dropping in the index. Being #12 among the most worsening nations regarding the index.
There is not enough time to stop illegal drugs and illegal gun sales because they are focusing on a substantial threat to the National Security of the United States - young children sneaking across the border.
US Virgin Islands - 49.26/100K inhabitants
Mexico - 24.89
Puerto Rico - 18.50
US - 5.30
Canada - 1.80
About 40% of US homicides go unsolved. I can’t find the percentage for Mexico, anyone have that?
Unfortunately, your Wikipedia figures are a couple of years out of date, and those couple of years have not been good ones in Mexico:
WSJ - Mexico’s Murder Rate Hit Record High in 2018
BBC - Mexico murder rate rises in first three months of 2019
Reuters - Murders in Mexico surge to record in first half of 2019
NY Post - Mexico murder rate spirals out of control, hitting 94 killings a day
“hugs, not bullets” appears to be failing.
Also, the WSJ article above contains the answer to your last question:
And now, one more can be added to the year’s grim total: Daily Mail - Shocking moment Mexican police officer who arrested drug lord El Chapo’s son is shot 150 TIMES in brutal broad daylight revenge execution
Actually you are falling for the right wing sources that still supports the failed war against drugs.
It is also an effort to toss the baby with the bathwater, what the President of Mexico and other nations being corrupted by the drug war are concluding is that drugs need to be decriminalized. There is however a good point to be made that the president of Mexico is wrong when there is ALSO an apparent disregard to what the cartels are doing after acts of murder and violence are taking place. However, that is even not the whole history when one sees a lot of the media in the USA ignoring what took place before “hugs not bullets”
Point being that “Hugs not bullets” is only one part of one solution, interdiction and arrest of the ones that are not reciprocating is a different part and not the reason for the violence as it is implied here.
Yes one more death in the war on drugs. But the headline is completely false. He was not involved in the arrest of el Chapito.
You may be right, but it’s more than just the headline that’s wrong then. The article starts out:
I have no difficulty believing that the Daily Mail is completely capable of being utterly wrong on that point.
Given its miserable third-world socioeconomic status, is Alabama a failed state?
Alabama’s per-capita GDP = $37,261
Mexico’s per-capita GDP = $8,902
So, Mexico’s about four times the failed state that Alabama is, if we’re basing the assessment off socioeconomic status.