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Old 05-28-2009, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
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I think most of this can be answered with: Mexico's government is extremely corrupt. I would think with all the natural resources Mexico has, including oil, the country could be run a lot better. There is an extremely small population that is very wealthy while the majority live in poverty. Some people refer to Mexico's government as an oligarchy.

No expert on Mexico here by any means, maybe someone could fill in some obvious gaps I missed.

The Mexican drug cartels are all over metro Atlanta, the transportation hub. The southwestern US and Texas have a lot of issues with the drug cartels as well and their presence is spreading all over the US.
great article on this topic: World Bank Diagnoses Mexican Economic Problems

But to sum it up, corruption is the main issue.
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Old 05-28-2009, 07:28 PM
 
Location: Triangle, North Carolina
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The largest concentration of Gwinnett's issues centers around the I-85 corridor from Exit 104 to Exit 99. Over to Buford Road.

This mess is getting bad all over. Was in Huntsville, Alabama last week and to my surprise, though being one of the highest concentrations of PhD's in the nation, billboard after billboard was about Meth Help, Busting Meth, and other Meth items. Talk about a meth issue.

Getting pretty sad due to the pushers for one, but why anyone would even want to try it is a whole other issue. Why?
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