By Dave Anderson:
The Telegraph reports that Juarez has shattered last year's murder count with a touch more than two months to go in the year. The cartels, the Mexican Army and local police are all contributing to the increasing level of violence as the Mexican government is devolving into the best armed gang among all the other armed groups instead of the monopoly holder of violence.The city of 1.5 million people just across the border from El Paso, Texas, had 1,600 murders last year but in 2009 that total was exceeded by late summer.
Latest figures from the Chihuahua state attorney general's office showed there were 195 this month alone.
The annual murder rate has now reached 133 per 100,000 inhabitants, surpassing Caracas, Venezuela. The comparable murder rate in New York last year was six per 100,000
This increase in violence has occurred in spite of the deployment of the Mexican Army into the northern smuggling preperation zone next to the American border. The longer this continues, the more the state delegitimates as its forces are not seen as being capable of providing basic security to the general populace, and thus the general populace primary loyalties will devolve to groups that can provide basic security to group members.
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