The drug cartel and wars @ Mexico -clicked from Boston

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon declared a war against the drug cartels on december 2006. As a result of this government has made some gains. But they got the gains by paying a heavy price - gun battles, assassinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels.
These resulted in over 9,500 deaths, while over 5,300 were killed in last year alone. US new president Barack Obama recently announced extra force will be send to the border and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda.
Officials of both the countries accepted to stopping the violence and they going to work as a team to stop flowing of drugs heading north and guns and cash flowing towards south.

In the above picture Seized ammunition is shown during a press conference of suspected members of the Pacific o drug cartel in Mexico city's airport on March 12, 2009.



Number markers are placed to identify the the location of bullet casings found at the scene where strangers opened fire and four police men were killed, Mexico on Feb. 17, 2009.



A Mexican police officer walks on the packages of cocaine in Buenaventura, Monday, March 23, 2009. 3.5 tons of cocaine has been ceased by the police in a vegetable container.



Yaneth Deyinara Garcia (center) and Sigifrido Najera (2nd from left), members of the drug Organization "Cardenas Guillen", are presented to the press at the headquarters of the Defense Secretary in Mexico City on March 20, 2009.



Mexican suspect drug trafficker Vicente Zambada Niebla is presented before the press in Mexico City March 19, 2009.



Fourteen tons of drugs been fired and a army men watches it from the jeep, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 2, 2008.



Mexican police examine two persons killed inside a car after an alleged drug-related clash, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on November 25, 2008.



Mexican army men checks a vehicle at the customs checkpoint in Miguel Aleman, on Mexico's northeastern border, along with the U.S army.,
Its their traditional technique of smuggling. Mexicans use their shoes as a container for keeping the drugs. This shoe is displayed in the Drug Museum at the headquarters of the Mexican Ministry of Defense in Mexico City March 9, 2009.



Forensic workers remove one of nine bodies found at a plot on the outskirts of the border city of Ciudad Juarez March 14, 2009. An anonymous call led police to a site where at least nine bodies were found in a shallow grave local media reported.



Police men standing guard before a man who was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.



"ITS TOO HARD TO SURVIVE IN MEXICO"