Monday, March 22, 2010

'Spillover' Violence ranges beyond the U.S.-Mexico Border

By Jerry Brewer

As the knee jerk and handwringing starts with officials pondering the continued graphic violence in Mexico, the geographic analysis of the spillover into the U.S. demands much more centralized direction than simply sugarcoating the obvious effects.

One of the curious signs of government rhetoric has been in the attempts to define the new phenomenon known as “spillover.â€