Every year millions of dollars worth of drugs enter America from mexico. Synthetic drugs by crystal meth are an increasingly important part of that business. Those lab made drugs, once exclusively destined for hir paying customers abroad, are now flooding the local market. And drug addiction is becoming a domestic one too.
The names are familiar but the establishment-choice and rabble-rouser roles are reversed. That the vote was along class lines rather than ethnicity marks an important shift. Will
the result stand? For years Mexico was seen merely as a conduit for illegal drugs; now it has a
growing user base as well. And the
rising number of Americans bringing guns onto flights. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of
The Economist, subscribe here
www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer