Article 1

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/americas/mexicos-presidential-race-could-be-pivotal.html?_r=1&ref=mexico

This article is titled: "Investigating Beheadings, 12 Officers Slain in Mexico" by The Associated Press (which is the new york times)

Basically, this article talks about the 12 officers who were killed and the 11 wounded by gunmen in Mexico as they were investigating the beheadings of seven men and three women. From what I can understand from this article, the beheaded people were somehow associated with  La Familia, which is a drug cartel that's base is located in the mountains near where the bodies were found. The act of voilence seemed to have come from someone who was against the drug cartel as the bodies were found with a note threatning the cartel. I think all the drug violence in Mexico is just really sad and I don't think that it is going to stop any time soon because the government is involved and they have plenty of customers, including the United States who are buying everything they're selling. I feel like the United States is inadvertantly funding a terrorist organization by just refusing to leagalize marajuana. From what I've heard and seen, most of the appeal of marajuana revolves around the fact that it is illegal. I think if we made it legal we'd be taking a huge step in attempting to stop all the violence that is goign on in Mexico surrounding these drug cartels.