Recently, as the term “war” has been used in this country, the focus has been on Iraq, Afghanistan, or Gaza. But for the past couple of years, war is exactly what has been happening just south of the U.S. border. And the violence there is getting worse.

Reporter Emilio Gutierrez Soto

The war in Mexico is about the control of the flow of drugs being consumed in the U.S. Some 10,000 people have been killed in this violent struggle over the past three years. And Mexicans are hard pressed to know what’s really happening as the country recently became the second most dangerous region of the world for journalists, after Iraq.

Latino USA contributor Monica Ortiz Uribe begins the story of Emilio Gutierrez Soto.

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