For those of us who live here in San Diego County (I live about 25 minutes from the San Diego-Tijuana border) Mexico’s ongoing drug war has been an ongoing story — but in recent years it has gotten downright horrific.
How horrific? Just read these four revelations — developments that even the sickest mind could not have passed off as reality just a few years ago.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.