Blog Phase 7

The latest article on the Mexican Drug War I found was published by the New York Times in October of 2012 titled, "Mexican Drug Trafficking (Mexico's Drug Wars)". The article basically recaps, and discusses significant events of the Mexican Drug War, such as then-president Felipe Calderón's attack on the drug cartels that started the war in December of 2006, the new policies being established by the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, recent spikes in violence at the United States-Mexican border, and the U.S. government's plans on dealing with violence connected to Mexican drug cartels on U.S. soil.

This article is relatively recent, and references events that have been discussed in several other news articles such as Time magazine, the L.A. Times, National Geographic, the Mexican newspaper El Ágora, and various books. The article also discusses the United States' government's plan on combating the violence on American soil, which I can cover, and explain how this war is affecting the United States. By applying the CRAAP test, this article shows that it is reliable, not by only discussing the war's impact on the United States, but also how our country is reacting to it.