In Mexico, Old Clothes Can be Bad News - Fox News Latino

Comment: Social problems breakdown a country and sow the seeds to insurgency, revolution or a criminally run environment. The drug war has impacted the country in multiple ways:

-The government's ability to function by ensuring stability in small communities is disrupted and is contributing to instability in parts of the state and possibly the state of Mexico in the long-term. Police are killed or bribed and made subservient to the cartels which actually rule under invisible fiefdoms throughout Mexico.

-Informationally, the cartels continue to dominate the psychological environment by instilling discipline and support from the people by fear or money.

-Security is obviously disrupted, people don't know who to trust because people serve as spies that support the cartels. Who ever dominates the psychological terrain wins the fight, as security and stability is as much about perception than reality, and whoever sends out the strongest narrative will be recognized as dominant.

-Economy; the impacts of the drug war impact other parts of society and state stability and security. Underground economies surface, and the state finances suffers as the underground meets the desires better and faster than the government making the government seemingly irrelevant...contributing to further disintegration. The drug war is impacting bull fighters, the lumber and mining industries in addition to other markets such as the one below.

If Mexico cannot address the issue effectively the state of Mexico as we know it will meet its demise.

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"In Mexico, Old Clothes Can be Bad News With its textile industry hard hit, Mexico has developed a thriving black market in used, counterfeit or pirated clothing. And authorities are fighting back."

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