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Waves of killings blamed on drug cartels are continuing to sweep Mexico. Here, Mexican political scientist Eduardo Guerrero Gutierrez examines the reasons for the violence and the prospects for the future.
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Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed nearly 30,000 people in the first 45 months of the current government, and its fast increase has been unstoppable.
If the killings continue to increase at the current rate that total will rise to about 75,000 by the time the government's term in office ends in December 2012.
The government's stance against the growing number of casualties in the war on drugs has been to emphasise the inevitability of violence.
In a recent interview, President Felipe Calderon said: "I wish there was less violence, but - being honest - that is not foreseeable in the short term, in which high levels of violence will remain. Violence will decline over the medium and long terms."
A particularly frustrating aspect of the government's war against organised crime is that - despite its high cost in terms of human lives - the war has not led to the decline of kidnappings, extortion and human trafficking.
In addition, frequent arrests of drug lords have had three highly detrimental effects: an increase in the number of criminal organisations (given the divisions that these arrests cause within a cartel); higher levels of violence; and territorial expansion of organised crime (which involves the invasion of new spaces).
Read more:
BBC News - Drugs and violence: Mexico's addiction
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I don't need a professor to tell me that a large percentage of Mexicans are violent animals. They prove it everyday. And these same people sneak into the US and will eventually destroy it if America does not strike back soon.