Mexican drug cartels have had the ability of striking within the U.S. for a long time now. One incident was when hit-men from the The Gulf Cartel's 'Los Zetas' raided a house in Phoenix, Arizona wearing full swat/tactical gear with shirts bearing the local police department's logo. They entered the house of a local Jamaican drug dealer who had crossed the Gulf Cartel and assassinated him. To read more on the story, go here; http://www.stratfor.com/wee kly/mexican_cartels_and_fal lout_phoenix

Another incident which happened pretty recently (Feb. 25), shows the extent of Mexico's drug cartels infiltration into the United States. An operation launched by the DEA with Mexico netted 755 members of the Sinaloa drug cartel with 52 of them operating from inside the United States. Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pu bs/states/newsrel/2009/la02 2509.html

One journalism agency keeping a really close track of Mexico's Drug War is the LA Times. I advise anyone who wants to learn more about the Mexican drug war to go to> http://projects.latimes.com /mexico-drug-war/

The Multimedia Gallery section atop of the widget illustrates how gruesome the situation is. The Video Q&A sections atop of the widget provide you some of the basic information about who these drug cartels are and much more.

--Excellent blog post Ana.