28,000 Killed in Mexican Drug War Since 2006

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Mexico says more than 28,000 people have been killed in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against cartels in 2006.

Intelligence agency director Guillermo Valdes says authorities have confiscated about 84,000 weapons and made total cash seizures of $411 million in U.S. currency and $26 million worth in pesos (330 million pesos).

Valdes says drug violence in Mexico "is still growing."

He spoke Tuesday during a meeting with Calderon and representatives of business and civic groups. Attendees are exploring ways to improve Mexico's anti-drug strategy.

The most recent official toll of the drug war dead came in mid-June, when the attorney general said 24,800 had died. He did not specify a time frame.

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[keydet46]

It is totally ironic that the bodies are lying under a sign advertising beer. You know the same stuff the revenoors were trying to stamp out in the thirtys. Didn't work then and it still doesn't now. Hasn't worked for 72 years. It still wont work for the next 72 years. Regulate it don't ban it. Its a matter of liberty.

[GTR5]

28,000 Mexicans killed. It will probably rain tomorrow morning. Did you hear the one about...

[texas_liberal]

With Nacho Coronel out of the meth business
U.S. Trailer Trash will soon be buying its brain candy from China.

[Noval53]

It's interesting that many Americans are anti-war, anti-military, and anti-gun and yet pour billions of dollars into this ugly dark & bloody drug economy. The dope money buys guns from anywhere and spills blood everywhere; including in the US. If you are a buyer of illegal drugs, look at your hands and you'll see blood. I do firmly think it's past time to legalize marijuana. That will help reduce the flow of blood created by the American Drug Market and create some new jobs in the process.

[ky7474]

Those who think killing people is the answer to all our problems are really the scum of the earth. Don't empower organized crime through corrupt prohibitions and then complain because things get out of hand. If you are unwilling to allow adults to make adult decisions for themselves then you are the one's with the problem and you should be the one's targeted for ethnic cleansing. All this killing is sickening and those who support it are morally lost in my opinion.

[scottyusa]

Well the U.S. has been itching for a war on drugs. One should be careful with what they ask for. All this over a weed.

[tsigili]

The drug cartels have turned the country into one big business.....drugs.

The country has 2 products......drugs and money sent home by illegals, from the US. Some of that money sent, is also from drugs.

[texas_liberal]

When the war on drugs is controlled in Mexico, who will the trailer trash dwellers in the States get it from?