How to Become a Failed State - The American Spectator

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How to Become a Failed State

by Chris Horner

November 29, 2010, 12:00 AM

 This explains a lot.

MEXICO CITY – Mexico is battling billionaire drug mafias armed with bazookas, but when President Felipe Calderon ranks the threats his country faces, he worries more about methane gas, dwindling forests and dirty refineries.

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