Official figures show there were at least 35,588 murders in Mexico in
2019, resulting in an unprecedented period of bloodletting by Mexican
crime groups - such as the CJNG, the Templar Cartel, Las Viagras, the
Nueva Familia Michoacana, the La Línea cartel and the Los Salazar crime
group. President López Obrador has vowed to "pacify" the country by
waging war on the social roots of crime, but his strategy has failed
badly; evidenced by the massacre of November 2019 in northern Mexico -
cartel gunmen killing at least six children and three women; killing
children at point-blank range and shooting one mother as she begged for
their lives. The Mexican government is unable to put an end to cartel
violence; due to government inertia and fear of retaliation by Mexican
drug cartels - or so it seems. Hence it is imperative that an effective
multi-national anti-cartel strategy is implemented - with the assistance
of the international community - to finally restore rule-of-law and
human rights in this beautiful country.