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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (41299)	11/15/2005 8:30:56 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Laz, this is getting pretty scary: Mexico Is Becoming the Next Colombia Tuesday 15 November 2005 Mexico is at risk of descending into the kind of maelstrom of drug-related corruption and violence that tore Colombia apart -- and with Mexico sharing a border with the United States, the consequences for the U.S. will be much more severe, according to a study released today by the Cato Institute. In the Cato Foreign Policy Briefing "Mexico Is Becoming the Next Colombia," Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato's vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, argues that violence and chaos in Mexico is "already spilling over the border and will adversely impact the United States -- especially the southwestern states." Here's the rest of the study: cato.org