VIDEO: The bodies are piling up-over 1,800 killings so far this year alone. In the media it is usually portrayed as a campaign by Felipe Calderon, the Mexican president, to smash the power of Mexico's drug cartels. About 25,000 military troops and federal police have flooded into a number of cities. The US is also wading into the fight with approximately a billion and a half dollars of direct military aid pledged by Bush. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.