? Cartels have effective control over certain areas of Mexico and corrupted all layers of governance. > 40 000 dead from direct conflict between cartels and go

? Cartels have effective control over certain areas of Mexico and corrupted all layers of governance. > 40 000 dead from direct conflict between cartels and government forces since 2006. Just because it's technically unlikely that you're going to encounter the violence yourself, and therefore not give you a 'violence vibe' doesn't really have anything to do with how much violence there is. 40K is a gigantic number and will possibly be bigger than the Russian-Ukranian war when it's over. If power of some armed groups rivals that of government, then it's a 'near failed state'. We have the technology and wherewithal and hopefully 'learned lessons' to make progress on this. The fact that this massive, organized violence exists, is to a great extent our responsibility for letting it metastasize.