The crisis consists in nothing less than an effort by the major drug cartels to tame and suborn the Mexican state, and not just in the strip along the United States border, though the epicenter of the crisis is there. Obviously, the cartels’ leaders do not have designs on Mexico’s presidential palace.
La crisis consiste en nada menos que un esfuerzo de los principales carteles de la droga por poner de rodillas al estado mexicano, y no sólo a la franja fronteriza con los Estados Unidos, aunque allí está el epicentro de la crisis.