The violence surrounding Mexican drug lords doesn’t seem to be getting much better. In devastating news released today via the AP, 19 people at a drug rehab center in Chihuahua were executed by drug cartel members.
Roughly 23,000 deaths have been linked to drug cartels in Mexico since the end of 2006. More than 60 deaths have occurred specifically at treatment programs just in the last two years, where cartel members are exploiting people in the clinics by offering drugs to participants and threatening them with death if they do not join their operations.