Mexian Drug War

I chose to look at the war on drugs in Mexico for my current event. We talked briefly about it in class and I was curious to find out more about it. I found that http://xrl.us/befp7c was a good website to give me just a general idea of what it is all about. We talked in class how people are getting killed every day and how there are cops who are always checking people's cars and putting their own lives in danger for this war. There have been 7,211 drug related deaths realted to this drug war since January of 2007. The website had a really great map that said how many people have died in what cities and things like that. Chihuahua has the most deaths, ranking in with 1,678. Next on the list of Sinaloa which has a total of 962 deaths. This war if taking place all throughout Mexico. It trails all the way down to the very southernmost tip. This war is based largely on the U.S.A.'s large demand of drugs. Many of these drugs are sent to our country from Mexico so they are fighting over that and the groups sending the drugs up. This war is a bad deal and it looks like it is going to take a long time before it is all settled.