My Mexican friends tell me:  You guys consume billions of dollars of illegal drugs and we get all of the dead people. There is a lot of truth in that!. We do consume and they have 70,000 dead!  We can blame Mexico for this or that but our consumption is the reason that the cartels cross borders and do business up here.  In December 2006, President Calderon started this crackdown on cartels and it's very difficult but necessary. I don't think that many Americans understand just how bloody this drug war has been in Mexico.    WE also don't hear about the sacrifice of many Mexican police and soldiers. So let's say thumbs up to the Mexican army because they scored a big win this week: "Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, was captured before dawn Monday in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican administration ...(Read Full Post)