Tijuana: Gangsters Spill Blood, Spread Fear (VIDEO)

During the last year, more than 6,000 people have been murdered in Mexico's drug wars, more than 700 of them in Tijuana alone.

Teodoro Eduardo García Simental, "El Teo," is a major player in Tijuana's drug war, a larger-than-life figure who has escaped the law and left gruesome corpses in his wake.

Worldfocus correspondent John Larson, producer Bryan Myers and field producers Megan Thompson and Ivette Feliciano spend five days in Tijuana, where life in El Teo's reach is surrounded by death.

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Comments

[slarabee]

The reality of this situation is inescapable. This situation will come to apex and then recede.
The apex will be well the major players in the cartels are killed. The situation will then calm for sometime while the cartels regroup quietly and then they will continue business as usual.
Meanwhile the Mexican authorities will declare victory despite the fact that nothing has changed except for leadership.
These drug wars are cyclic. They can never be won. The should not even be called wars. They should be called little boys (with guns) sticking their fingers in the dike.
Only a deluded ideologue would even try to claim that we can stop the flow of drugs into the US. As long as there is prohibition there will be cash too be made. As long as their is cash too be made their will be people that find a way to smuggle and get rich and buy guns. These people once fully invested and wanted by the law facing life in prison will kill anyone and everyone to continue their trade.
It is losing battle and it is the innocent that pay the price with their lives.

[andyg]

Do you use smack-coke, is that why you want to legalize it.

[manndan]

Slarabee's view is one that is shared by many people that don't use drugs. If you have a rational defense for current drug laws then go ahead and state it. If the best that you can do is slander another poster give it a rest.

[PhilipB]

The question is who benefits with Mexico in turmoil?
Who are the real players?
Will instability in Mexiceo continue? If it gets worse and bleeds into the US, will the US intervene?
Does Mexico have the courage to address corruption of its officials?
There is something missing here...som­e part of this situation which is not clear. I would say on the surface it is drug lords and rival gangs and government crackdowns­...
But who benefits? Who controls the purse? what political, regional agendas are behind the scenes?

[JulieSA]

Mexico has always been a kleptocracy. The president has always left office far richer after skimming his take from all this activity.

I don't know how true the following is, but supposedly Calderon is actually trying to stop this. The turmoil is caused by the crackdowns. Whenever you have a power vacuum because some gangster has been killed or captured, there's a big fight over his turf.

[CaptainStormfield]

Follow the money.

[GeorgeP922]

The People of Mexico should sue the United States to end their drug laws.

We are responsible for each and every one of these deaths.

[fbr79]

I came here because I knew there would be someone exonerating the Mexican government from any responsibility in the matter and blaming everything in the US. I should have made a bet on it.

[NotesFromME]

Where the heck do you think those drug gangs are selling their goods? Mexico and its corrupt government are clearly complicit, but the money that drives the trade is from the US of A.