Whack-a-mole: In Mexico, a War Every Century

Tonight two hundred years of  Independence is celebrated all over Mexico with the grito, "¡Viva México!" Here a Mexican author gives a brief review of Mexico´s bloody history of wars, leading up to the current "war on drugs." He expresses the faith and the fears of his fellow Mexicans. 

In Mexico, a War Every Century - NYTimes.com: "Many of us want to believe that we are living through a nightmare from which, one morning, we will simply wake up, once again at ease. 


But this is not the way things are. We are dealing with a situation generated, to a great extent, by the market for drugs and weapons in the United States and by the refusal of many Americans to recognize their own portion of responsibility in these tragic events. The drug war will have to be resolved on both sides of the border." Sept. 15, 2010, OpEd by Enrique Krauze, the editor of the magazine Letras Libres and the author of “Mexico: Biography of Power.”