Sinjefe's title is correct: Forever War
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Following a two-hour gun battle that was captured on local television, the troops overpowered the drug lord's security forces, killing Beltrán Leyva and six of his bodyguards.
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Mere days later, however, Beltrán Leyva's gunmen brutally slaughtered the family of a young marine killed during the operation, including his mourning mother and sister, in an act of retribution.
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Two years later, they account for well less than half of the deaths, as massacres have spread to areas that had previously been largely spared of the violence, such as Mexico City and the state of Nayarit.
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More than 45,000 soldiers are currently deployed to this end.
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That sure reads like the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Corruption? Organized Crime? It's narco-terrorism.
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