S.D.U.T. EDITORIAL

Stopping a plague

Administration must move on helping curb Mexico's drug violence
2:05 a.m. March 1, 2009

- With more than 7,000 people murdered since January 2007, the Mexican drug war has already gone from bad to worse. The goal now, for both the Obama administration and the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderón, is to do everything to keep it from becoming impossible.
While some academics and government officials continue to warn that Mexico is on the brink of becoming a “failed state,â€