Last wednesday cardboard signs sprung up around the city of Ciudad Jauarez declaring the deaths of police officers every forty-two hours until the police chief resigns. Last friday a police officer and a jail guard were killed with similar signs on their bodies taking credit. The chief, Roberto Orduna, resigned hours later.This is just another example of how the rule of law in Mexico, especially around the border, has deteriorated to the point that the elected and appointed officials seem to have no actual power. The police are outgunned, and they're being outlasted by rogue criminals backed by the drug cartel. Their influence over such relatively high levels of administration and their slaying of innocents must be broken before any real political legitmacy can take place.
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