Prediction, 2016-99
TPP will be boycotted, and the Chinese trail through Baja will be seriously compromised. As both material production and quality return to the American rhizome, mafias such as the Clinton will be more pressed in applying their traditional modus operandae.
'And the smack wasn't even being produced in Columbia, as one might expect. It was being cooked in Michoacan, Mexico, where the folks of the little town called Aguadilla proudly boasted that they would become renown worldwide as the "Medellin of Heroin." And what about Mexico? On 12 Dec 2000, a Mexican newspaper reported that fifteen people, all believed to have been Mexican police agents, had been found murdered in Sinaloa and Baja, California. The bold one-day massacre had allegedly been carried out by stop-at-nothing drug traffickers.
And remember, this is our back-door neighbor, not some distant South American country. Can you imagine fifteen American cops being whacked in one well-coordinated attack in Texas or Arizona? If you can't you'd better start.'
(Morgan, Reaper's Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexican Border [2006] p.499)