Planning a trip to Mexico? Forget it.

Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican drug cartels supply us, as in U.S. It’s very doubtful they could survive without our market. Us baby-boomers opened Pandora’s drug box in the ’60s and can’t get the dang thing closed. For that, and my being an accessory during the fact, I sincerely apologize.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexico has captured a kingpin accused of terrorizing his way to the top of a gang fighting for control of key U.S. drug routes - even ordering rivals dissolved in caustic soda. Tuesday's arrest, announced by U.S. and Mexican officials, capped a series of victories in Mexico's U.S.-backed war on narcotics.

A man has pleaded no contest to a murder charge in the beheading of a man in Arizona who police say had stolen drugs from a Mexican drug cartel.

Mike McClellan’s headline should be that “Mexican cartels are well armed due to failure to enforce existing laws in Mexico. (Or, Mexican cartels are lawless criminals). Because if they already have laws prohibiting purchase and possession of weapons larger than .32 handguns, then it’s just proving once again that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Visit Chicago or D.C. sometime if you doubt that, Mike.

In the mid 1980s, when Robert Almonte was a narcotics detective for the El Paso Police Department, he executed a search warrant at the home of a street-level heroin dealer and discovered the woman had placed the names of Almonte and his partner on voodoo dolls.

Minutes after the beheading of a 38-year-old Chandler man inside a small apartment at the Chandler Oasis apartments last October, Norma Alvarado told police she knew she lived in a bad neighborhood.

Michael Rhodanz (Letters, Nov. 19) is, rightfully, concerned about criminals sneaking across the border from Mexico with guns and drugs. But the vast majority of illegals sneaking across the border have no guns or drugs, but simply want work.  

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

Arizona's top prosecutor says the best way to stop illegal immigration is to dismantle the Mexican crime cartels.

A couple of weeks ago Gov. Jan Brewer made a rather startling, if not irresponsible, remark that most people crossing the border illegally from Mexico were drug mules. Though I believe her comments to be hyperbole and another blatant attempt to pander for political gain, they have brought to the forefront the obvious link between the importation of illegal drugs and illegal immigration.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is urging President Barack Obama to intensify the effort to defeat the Mexican drug cartels which he says are threatening U.S. border security.