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Since 2006, violence has become intractable in Mexico, and almost 29,000 people have died. Human and civil rights have been this war's other casualty. Anti-drug laws are used against trade unions. Homes can be searched without a warrant.

The army now virtually occupies communities throughout the country, carrying out functions that, under the constitution, are not the responsibility of the armed forces: it has set up checkpoints, de facto curfews, and inspections.

The situation in several northern states resembles a state of siege. In Guerrero, military forces have engaged in low intensity warfare whose tactics include stealing crops, raping women, extrajudicial killings, and even forced sterilisation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/12/drugs-war-on-mexican-people/print