This article about Mexican President Calderon's desire to whack the biggest drug mole, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman of the Sinaloa cartel, paints a picture of the political motivation for waging a whack-a-mole drug war.
Analysis: Clock ticks on Calderon's hunt for drug lord | Reuters: "Mexico's next presidential election is just 14 months away, and the conservative National Action Party (PAN) is now well behind its main rival in polls, battered by the violence unleashed by Calderon's grinding campaign against the cartels.
Catching Mexico's most powerful drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman would be a 'godsend' to the PAN, which needs to turn around public opinion before the July 2012 vote, said George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
'It would be a real coup for Calderon, much like the Osama bin Laden takedown was for Obama,' Grayson said."
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