Response

The American response to the attacks on the Monterrey consulate and the general surge in violence was appropriately tough: "They surrender, or they die," drug czar John Walters said. 

I'd have liked the comments a little better if they were directed specifically at those behind the consulate attacks, especially if followed up by the swift investigation and destruction of the group responsible. That would draw a clear line about what sort of threats the US simply won't accept. By addressing his remarks to everyone involved in the drug trade,  the threat loses all credibility, since plenty of drug smugglers neither die at the hands of the government nor do they surrender.