U.S. students have a couple more reasons to be cold this winter: Arizona Universities advise spring breaks south of the border should be avoided. Universities in Tuscon, Tempe and Flagstaff have all issued various travel advisories and warnings to students, in the wake of an upsurge of violence and crime in Tijuana, Juárez and Nogales.
“Mexico's drug cartels are waging a bloody fight for smuggling routes and against government forces, dumping beheaded bodies onto streets, carrying out massacres and even tossing grenades into a crowd of Independence Day revelers - an attack that killed eight people in September.”
More from MSNBC:
"In just the past week...
- In Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, the police chief of Mexico's largest border city quit after cartel hitmen started killing police officers and threatened to kill more until he resigned. Police went on high alert, travelling in groups with pistols in their hands.
- In Reynosa, across from McAllen, at least six people died in running battles between soldiers and gunmen armed with grenades and bazookas.
- In the state of Chihuahua, which includes Juarez, gunmen opened fire on the governor's convoy, killing one of his bodyguards and injuring two others."
Taking these articles as examples of two types of media coverage of this border-war-zone, I think they show a really strange lack of concern on behalf of the U.S. of the killings so geographically close to us, and even at times spilling over the border and into Phoenix. Is it the drug trafficking in and of itself that brings violence to the border, or can we look deeper into the escalating conflict and question how the U.S. and Mexico have been policing the border?
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