Is Mexico heading toward becoming a failed state?
If you look at any criteria of indicators of what a failed state is and isn’t, Mexico is simply nowhere close to that, whether it’s control of its territory, whether it’s international recognition, the ability to fulfill its international commitment, print currency or raise taxes. There are no massive population migrations within Mexico. There’s a functioning civil society. There’s a functioning press. In fact, I would form the argument that because the state is strong it has had the ability to do what no previous Mexican government has done in the past, which was take the fight to the heart of the drug syndicates in Mexico. What has happened is that as we have operationally squeezed some of the drug traffickers so that they are now fighting amongst themselves for those last lucrative avenues of transportation of drugs into the United States. And, by the way, the transportation of weapons and bulk cash heading in the other direction, into Mexico and feeding the drug syndicates. So in n
