Discouraging Point of View about Mexico as a "Failing State"

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Mexico has challenges, many of them the result of colonization and continuing economic disparities.
But Mexico also carries a heavy, unavoidable burden. “Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States” as described long ago by then President Porfirio Diaz.
The guns and ammunition used in these terrible Mormon killings were all imported illegally from the USA.
“Failing states” involve more than only Mexico.