Today in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram there was an article about the surge in killings in Cuidad Juarez. So far this year over 1100 people have been murdered in the city of 1.5 Million, with policemen being shot down in broad daylight in a hail of bullets. By contrast, across the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, a city of 600,000, there were 17 homicides during the entire year of 2007. The killings in Juarez are attributed to the drug cartels. Not much about the situation in Mexico is being reported in the US. But, by the criteria used in Iraq, the MSM would have to say that there is a civil war going on in Mexico.