War on Drugs

Mexican President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to make a high-profile visit to Juarez, the most dangerous city in Mexico and currently the battleground in the drug war in Mexico, next Thursday. Since President Calderon declared the war on drugs in 2006, over 16,000 Mexicans have been killed due to drug related incidents, and the number of deaths keep rising. Drug trafficking in Mexico had been escalating in the North of the country and becoming a real concern, but violence really erupted when President Calderon declared an open war with the drug trafickers. Now, Mexico is on a full-out campaign to elimintate the drug cartels from Mexico once and for all, but the battle is only getting bloodier everyday. Progress has been made, as many drug traffickers have been caught, but in your opinion, was it right for President Calderon to declare the war on drug cartels? These organizations were and still are a very real concern to Mexican national safety, and removing them was becoming more and more imperative, and in a government that had been corrupted for so long, President Calderon was the first person to address this issue and push towards new reform, but do you think that the bloodshed that is going on is necessary or at least justified in order to imporve the country and push it towards social and governmental reform?