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COMMENTS: Mexico’s War on Drugs Seen from Afar
Last Thursday, CBS' Bill Whitaker in Los Angeles and NBC's Mark Potter in Miami both relayed news of the deadly police raid in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca that ended in the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, a leading narcotrafficker. Killed in that shootout was Melquisedet Angulo Cordova, part of the 45,000 federal forces deployed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon in his War on Drugs. Angulo was given a state funeral. Now in a revenge killing, four members of Angulo's family were wiped out in their home. Jeff Glor narrated the grisly videotape from the New York studio for CBS. More than 7,000 have been killed so far this year in Mexico's "horrific and ongoing drug war."
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