A relatively small but symbolically significant "collateral damage" of the drug war
Mexico drug war, holiday travel: Mexican government warns visiting expats to travel in convoys - latimes.com: "It is an annual ritual, a pilgrimage that Mexicans living in the United States make to visit hometowns and families for the holidays.
But this year, the terrifying drug war violence sweeping parts of Mexico is taking its toll.
The Mexican government is warning travelers driving into Mexico for the holiday season — many from Southern California — to move in convoys and only during daylight hours." Nov. 24, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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