Surrender- Watching a Localized Insurgency Grow

"The insurgent has to destroy all bridges linking the population with the

counterinsurgent and his potential allies. Among these, people (generally

the liberal-minded) inclined to seek a compromise with the insurgents will

be targets of terrorist attacks."

- Galula, page 44 of COUNTERINSURGENCY WARFARE Theory and Practice

On 17 September, this site posted a piece noting the cartels attacks on the media, and what the implications would be.  Well today it appears that posting is deja vu.

Is this indicative of the Mexican Government winning the war against the cartels? 

Or, does this event seem to support Secretary of State Clinton's assessment that Mexico is slowly morphing into an insurgency?

Regardless of what Obama and Calderon say or think, they have an insurgency on their hands.  The criminal insurgents have subverted the infrastructure in parts of Mexico where locals now feel they have to deal with the criminals, rather than law enforcement, for safety and security. 

"Mexico newspaper pleads druglords for truce"

(AFP) – 1 hour ago [19Sep10]

"CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The biggest newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's crime capital along the US border, pleaded with feuding drug cartels Sunday for a truce after one of its photographers was killed.

"We ask you to explain what you want from us, what you want us to publish or stop publishing," El Diario de Juarez wrote in a front-page editorial.

Unidentified gunmen attacked two El Diario photographers Thursday, shooting dead 21-year-old Luis Carlos Santiago and leaving Carlos Sanchez seriously wounded. Santiago was the second journalist from El Diario killed in less than two years.

"You are the de facto authority in the city now," the editorial said, referring to warring drug cartels that have killed over 2,000 people in Ciudad Juarez alone so far this year, despite the presence of some 4,500 federal police and military.

Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, according to rights groups.
More than 30 journalists have been killed or gone missing as violence has surged since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)..."


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