Nearly 50,000 deaths have occurred in Mexico during the Mexican drug wars since president Felipe Calderon was elected. While many headlines remain negative, the Mexican president is actually making excellent progress in the war against drug cartels by eliminating many high ranking drug lords. Until recently, drug related killings were rising 27, 28, and 29% over the past few years, but now it seems to be leveling out and (hopefully) declining. The Cartels had always bribed or killed off police in order to come into power, so the President of Mexico issued a military force that could easily win a shootout (In other words, Military firepower > police firepower). With the cartels taking heavy losses, Mexico hopes to see an extreme decrease in drug related crime. It is unknown what the future holds for the war, but 83% of Mexicans agree that some action is better than no action at all.
Link:
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/24/zakaria-is-mexico-winning-the-drug-war/?hpt=hp_c1
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