Security & Strategic Review February 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Mexico riled as its violence is again labelled an ‘insurgency’
Once again, a prominent US official has raised hackles in Mexico by comparing the drug-cartel violence there with an insurgency and, to boot, by hinting that the US might have to send troops across the border. There have been half-apologies for political and diplomatic reasons, but what is clear is that US officialdom is very alarmed at the prospect of the violence spreading into their own territory, and even President Felipe Calderón has gone on the record about the political dimension of drug-cartel violence.
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