i personally think this is a very great article. No matter how dangerous this article is it gives you head up that drugs are everywhere in the world not just in the untied states.

Here's a novel thought; offer hope for lives that have meaning and end the drug trade. Without meaningful lives, people (and far more relatively "wealthy" Gringos use them than Mexicans) turn in their despair to drugs to forget that despair. Our drug use and access to our weapons fuels the Mexican drug war. Their reporters will never be able to adequately investigate nor offer solutions to what is, essentially, our problem but which is unfortunately destroying their country!

I personally believe that it is a journalist job to do the news no matter how dangerous the story. News is meant to inform the rest of the world to what is going on. If there is no news then the same horrible things will continue to happen.

I dont agree that weed should be legalized. Only in the medical aspect of things. Drug trade has become a major problem over the past years and affects the country neighboring the U.S. As a country, we need to stop drugs from crossing our borders!

This is an interesting topic...it really depends on how you feel about the subject to decide wether a newspaper should be writing these kind of stories. It kind of comes down to "Is one article going to stop hundreds of drug gang members, or will they see this and it will only put OUR lives in jeopardy.

This is a very interesting topic for many of reason, plus this increasing violence is in a country neighboring the USA. Seeing that there has been an enormous growth of drug traffic and violence in Mexico is scary to think about because drugs are also a growing problem here in the US. It's even worst that now people reporting it are even getting harm for just doing their job. I don’t understand why there isn’t enough being done to try to cut down on the issue.

It's not drug violence so much as it is gang violence in Mexico. Pot is safe & effective & that's why it should be legal worldwide, & that would reduce murder in Mexico significantly because the financial competition between sellers would decrease significantly. Hard drugs is a tougher issue; alcohol is on a par with cocaine by the way... so, decriminalisation at the very least is the best option for net well-being & harm reduction, objectively, in conjunction with massively increased drug education.

With this topic, it's horrible to see just how strong the drug trade really is. The international drug force and journalists are not able to share their findings with the public like they should. The journalists have good reason for not being able to report enough on drugs in Mexico. I mean, they have both the Army and drug lords breathing down their backs for not sharing enough information. It seems like these "tacid agreements" are the only thing keeping journalists alive. Even though media coverage is limited, it is still being talked about constantly. Bloggers and other social networks such as facebook, are sources for where most people talk about the drug raids in Mexico. This doesn't help the drug voilence improve at all. There should be a serious crackdown on the drug lords, or the internation drug transport is going to keep growing. Journalists shouldn't be constantly risking their lives only to cover the news. Regardless, the news consumers are not going to be hearing anything truly relevant to the status of the drug raid, except for the constant voilence.