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. And yes the murder capital was in Mexico in 2008, but a massive crime spree between rival gangs in a poor part of a country with the size and diversity of Mexico does not mean that the country is close to civil war..... and that is what I am trying to say.
That's not what is happening. Mexico's president Calderon is sending military forces to fight the drug cartels in major cities, and they are fighting the military back. It's not the poor part of the country, on the contrary because of the drug influences, they are the richer parts of the country. The farther south you go, excluding tourist places, the poorer it gets and most of the fighting is in the northern part close to the US border. You are correct though about not being close to a civil war.