New Record

One more piece of info from the front page of today's El Universal (that's the third featured today on Gancho; what can I say, they really outdid themselves. The editorial page is really good, too, but I won't be able to get to it until tomorrow.): Mexico cracked 5,000 in 2008 drug executions yesterday. Last year was the most violent year on record for drug cartels, but the number of deaths will be almost doubled by the time 2008 is through.