More Bad News in Chihuahua

A couple of days after the chief of the Juárez police was bullied into resigning, the governor of Chihuahua survived an assassination attempt.

Juárez is unusual in that it is a huge bordertown that is home to a drug cartel and also has significant drug consumption among its residents (Tijuana is the only other area that shares those characteristics). Consequently, the rest of the country isn't likely to simultaneously decay from above and below in quite the same way, but given that drug use in Mexico is relatively low and rising, it's conceivable that the rest of Mexico could look more like Juárez in ten years. That's more than a bit scary.