Security & Strategic Review September 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines in early September when she said that in the threat from the drug-trafficking organisations was 'in some cases morphing into or making common cause with what we would consider an insurgency in Mexico and in Central America' and that the situation in Mexico was 'looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago [when] it got to the point where more than a third of the country, nearly 40 percent of the country at one time or another was controlled by the insurgents, by the Farc.'