Collateral Damage: Mexico drug war: the new killing fields

Here is one of the most powerful descriptions we have read of the social destruction, the "collateral damage," that the war on drugs is wreaking on northern Mexico. It is difficult reading. It does not focus on "body counts" but on the impact on the living and on their communities, which are being destroyed. We will be following Mr. Carroll's next installments. (And this is from Britian. Oh, how good the British can be at things like this!)

Mexico drug war: the new killing fields | World news | The Guardian In the first of a three-part investigation, Rory Carroll reports from the gateway to America, at the centre of drug cartel violence that has claimed 28,000 lives. Sept. 3, 2010.