In addition to the usual calls to repentance in the Lenten messages of Mexico's bishops this year, there is also a heightened alarm to end government and societal corruption, which some analysts say has gotten so bad that it threatens the country's political stability.Alejandro Bermudez reports in our March 22 issue: "From the perspective of both the local and U.S. media, the increasing power of the drug cartels operating mostly in northern Mexico, as well as the looming economic crisis, are seen as factors that could lead the country either into out-of-control violence or a revolution.
"For many, alarming signs can be found in the increasing violence in the Mexico-U.S. border -- which have already cost 3,000 lives this year -- as well as in the recent apparition of the self-styled Movimiento Armado del Norte (Northern Armed Movement), an alleged revolutionary organization that recently issued two statements [warning of its plans to change the government "from within"]. Continue reading here.
The question is worth asking: How much responsibility do we American citizens bear for Mexico's situation, seeing as we are the ones buying the cartels' drugs and selling them their weapons?
