There’s so many gruesome and tragic stories about violence along the U.S.-Mexico border related to the drug war lately that it’s hard not to become desensitized.

However, this story from the El Paso Times about a young U.S. citizen and his friend being gunned down in Juarez, Mexico regardless of their apparent clean living, is a reminder of how bad it is.

Family members, who held his funeral Tuesday, said they did not know the reason behind the attack. News reports said the two men were coming from a boy scout camp before they were gunned down.

Pubdate: Wed, 19 May 2010 Source: Wall Street Journal (US) Copyright: 2010 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Contact: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com Author: David Luhnow Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Mexico Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Felipe+Calderon MEXICO’S ‘ELIOT NESS’ SEEKS U.S.  HELP MEXICO CITY-Ten days after taking power following a hotly contested election in 2006, Felipe Calderon sat in the […]

Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?131 (Heroin Maintenance) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?142 (Supervised Injection Sites) PRESCRIBE HEROIN ON THE NHS, SAYS NURSE LEADER Injection Rooms ‘Would Cut Crime and Infection Rates’ But Opponents Warn of Slippery Slope The NHS should offer heroin to drug addicts and open “consumption rooms” where users can go to inject under […]

Pubdate: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 Source: Sunday Telegraph (UK) Copyright: Telegraph Group Limited 2010 Contact: stletters@telegraph.co.uk Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/437 Author: Ben Leach A new drug called MDAI is being advertised across the internet as a replacement for “miaow miaow”. Miaow miaow, or mephedrone, became illegal in Britain this weekend […]

A story in today’s Boston Globe starts off by contrasting the glory of today’s Bogota, Colombia with the dark times before the U.S. anti-drug dollars really started flowing: But it is a remarkably different setting for Colombia’s capital than a few years ago, when many people rarely left their homes […]

The Los Angeles Times is citing new death toll figures in the Mexican drug war, suggesting 22,000 dead in three years. That’s up from previous estimates of 18,000. Supporters of the Mexican government’s enhanced drug war have said increased violence is a natural outcome of the crackdown, a sign that […]