Mariachis sing the blues

Stratfor, the business and geopolitical intelligence website, has posted the second installment of its Countries In Crisis series, this one focusing on Mexico.

Here’s an interesting piece of information from its email teaser:

“The Mexican state is undergoing the most severe challenges it has faced since the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution. Unlike the deep and overlapping complexities that threaten to shatter the first country in our series, Ukraine, Mexico’s problems can be boiled down to illicit drugs. The country’s geography almost dictates that Mexico’s [sic] City’s writ will be ignored across wide tracts of the country, and current efforts to bring law and order to the Mexican frontier are threatening the central functionality of the state itself. In 2008 alone, Mexico has already suffered more deaths from drug-related violence than all coalition deaths in Iraq since the war’s beginning in 2003. [italics mine]”

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