The Mexican Paradox

Mexico is a country that shares about 2000 miles of border with the United States. The first thing that comes to mind is, the development and prosperity of the world's richest and most powerful country must be surely rubbing off on Mexico. But, it seems quite the contrary. The present day Mexico is rent with drug-traffickers and gang wars. There appears to be no control of the government over the dire situation. There has been a critical history between the two countries because of the frequency of mexicans crossing the American border illegally (some had even tried to smuggle drugs into the country). But this time, the situation seems to be grim. The circumstances faced by the common mexicans may compel them to cross the American border. People are scared and have lost faith in the administration. Despite the vertigo it is in, Mexico has always stabilized itself. It has held regular elections, paved roads and educated its people. But, the momentum is continuously being broken by such problems. The best thing, now, would be to avoid a civil war otherwise it would leave a permanent scar on its face !