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The Cartel Crackdown

Winning the Drug War and Rebuilding Mexico in the Process

Author: Robert Bonner
May/June 2012
Foreign Affairs

Mexico is winning its death match against the drug cartels and rebuilding once-corrupt institutions in the process. But an election is approaching, and the candidates are calling for a truce. Mexico can take its place in the sun, but only if it wipes out the cartels for good.

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