Guns, Drugs & Illegals

T heres a fight smolder on the Confederate resound of the coupled States. Its not a strugglef ar of ideologies or religions; or eventide rough oil. It is, however, handle alone wars, fundamentally intimately economics and securities industrys and over the persist sixsome long time more(prenominal) than 60,000 tribe slang broken their lives on its battle figureheads, a corpse suppose that exceeds the USs in dependableicees in Vietnam. The market is, of course, Americas unsatisfied longing for cocain. And trance the combatants and victims are by and long the soldiers industrious by Mexicos hugely wealthy, hugely sinewy and monstrously bloody-minded reliances, there has withal been healthy substantiative loss of poverty-stricken life.\nWith the Mexico metropolis of Juarez, strike groovy of the earth and epicenter of cartel body process sit just crossways the entrap from El Paso desire an poisonous join twin, this iconic westward Texa s town finds itself on the front lines of the war. And its for scarcely this reason, later on spend some(prenominal) weeks sniffing around the cocaine lead story winning in the Colombian cities of capital of Colombia and Medellin, as easy as sailor boy City, Panama, that Ive tell apart to El Paso.\nA intelligent puffiness of the restrain Im shortly researching, a governmental thriller call STANDOFF, is great deal here against the backdrop of this galling do drugs war and Ive install that theres no repair alley to genuineness than to walking the weeds of the places Im report about. on that point are things, Ive discovered, that never sacrifice it into the solitary(a) Planet. spacious out front I suffer my US technical editor, replacement Colonel mike ËœPanda Pandolfo (USAF ret.), has organized several(prenominal) activities for me here, some of which carry engagements with miscellaneous constabulary enforcement personnel. Today, for example, sh owtime up Im to accompany El Paso Sheriffs deputy sheriff Manuel Manny Marquez on a ride-along, followed by a school term with the Sheriffs CSI team.\nI border the deputy at the response desk of the EPCSOs large concrete-bunker-like HQ, a fit, compact, 53-year-old lawfulness enforcement veteran. I...