Whack-a-mole: Mexico finds killing drug kingpins can add to mayhem

"Security experts" debate the "upsides" and "downsides" of whacking moles."

Mexico finds killing drug kingpins can add to mayhem - World AP - MiamiHerald.com: "Experts in Mexico and the United States say the strategy also has a real downside. The costs are illustrated by what has happened in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville in Texas, since the killing last Friday of Gulf Cartel leader Antonio Cardenas Guillen.

Rather than calming Matamoros, Cardenas' death may unleash a power struggle among underlings within the Gulf Cartel, a top Mexican security official has warned.

'In the short term, this will certainly create instability inside criminal organizations,' Alejandro Poire, the spokesman for the National Security Council, told the Televisa network." Nov. 11, 2010