The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America

by Ted Galen Carpenter

Book Overview

Since Mexican President Felipe Calder n initiated a military offensive against his country's powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 44,000 people have perished, and the drugs continue to flow. The growing violence has created concerns that Mexico could become a failed state, as U.S. political leaders also worry that the corruption and violence is seeping across the border into the United States. But, as detailed by Ted Galen Carpenter in his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935308882
• ISBN13: 9781935308881
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cato Institute
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"