"a sickening vertigo into chaos and plunder."

• Drug-related conflicts bring waves of violence, death that some liken to a civil war
  
• U.S. helps fuel violence with market for illegal drugs, weapons supply for drug gangs
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• The drug gangs are better equipped than the army," expert says
  
• Pervasive corruption among public officials also at center of drug cartels' success

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/18/mexico.drug.violence/#cnnSTCText