Mexico City Bureau
A policeman, shot earlier this morning defending the Mexican parliament from a shooter, has passed away. The shooter was confirmed by the police to be Manuel Pereza, a history teacher at a local public high school located in one of Mexico City’s slums. He died in the hospital after receiving multiple gun wounds while trying to enter the building.
The shooter is not believed to belong to a known cartel or vigilante group, but his actions shine an increasingly critical light on the Mexican government’s complacency. As the war on drugs escalates and takes the life of hundreds of innocent Mexicans, the country’s leaders show an infuriating lack of concern for their people’s safety. Their incompetence at securing their country legitimizes the U.S.’ recent attacks against the cartel terrorists. If they won’t do it, we’ll have to, or risk seeing our border flooded with millions of refugees we simply cannot host.
In light of recent events, Galen Carpenter, who recently authored a study entitled "Troubled Neighbor: Mexico's Drug Violence Poses a Threat to the United States," said the Mexican government could collapse, although it's unlikely. "That's still a relative longshot, but it's not out of the question," Carpenter said. "It's obviously prudent for all of the states along the U.S.-Mexican border and the military to consider that possibility and not get blindsided should it happen."
