Collateral Damage: Cry from Juarez: Newspaper's plaintive editorial raises troubling larger questions about Mexico

The Houston Chronicle says, "Mexico is well on the way to its own domestic tragedy on the scale of Vietnam. It is past time for Americans, and Texans in particular, to take notice. " That is very true. Unfortunately, it says nothing about what we should do to prevent such "collateral damage," and that is the question.

Cry from Juarez: Newspaper's plaintive editorial raises troubling larger questions about Mexico | Editorial |Houston Chronicle: "Ciudad Juarez is ruled by drug lords who murder with impunity. And now a leading newspaper is gravely wounded. El Diario's editors swear they won't pull back from the necessary work of exposing the violent, chaotic situation that is stealing the soul of a community and, quite possibly, a nation. We applaud their resolve.
This is all happening on our doorstep. We cannot ignore our neighbor's expanding crisis." Sept. 21, 2010