REMOVE KID GLOVES ON MEXICAN DRUGS

Now is the perfect time for the United States to put pressure on Mexico to
finally crack down on that country's drug lords whose deadly products
damage American society.

The occasion is a joint U.S.-Mexican police effort to recover up to 100
bodies from a killing field on the ranch of a Mexican drug lord across the
border from El Paso near Ciudad Juarez.

Tipped off by an informant, about 65 FBI agents joined Mexican authorities,
many in ski masks to protect their identify from Mexican drug lords, and
began the search for bodies reportedly buried on the ranch, one of the many
well-guarded smuggling havens located along the border.

Regrettably, Mexico has allowed its local, state and federal police forces
to be corrupted by drug traffickers.

Due to the heavy international publicity from the search for the bodies of
hundreds of vanished or kidnapped people, both Mexican and American
citizens, the right authorities in Mexico may be persuaded to finally
arrest the scores of Mexican citizens already indicted in the United States
for drug smuggling and distribution.

Now is the time to remove the kid gloves and pressure the Mexican
authorities to gather up the resolve needed to rid their nation of an
international scourge in their midst.

- - The Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald