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Thank you for the article, Sir. That was perhaps the best written article I've read about the drug war, yet. It split the points quite clearly.
Its clear that as long as organized crime in Mexico continues to penetrate the country's institutions (down to the marrow), it will be impossible to achieve change.
Mexicans don't have a military culture that I know of, and that lack of trust also hurts the process, because I can't think of someone doing his job properly if the people he or she serves for, don't respect them. In general, mexicans seem to respect the military because they have guns, not because of what they do every day for them. This, in my opinion, just helps to reduce the general interest in udnerstanding what the army is doing, how they are doing it, and what they are trying to achieve.
I fear that after Calderon is out of office, violence will dramatically decrease in the country, not because the next President erradicated it, but because he will probably negotiate it. It won't solve the underlying problem, it will just look good in statistics and newspapers.
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