Turf Wars

This year's death toll has surpassed 8,000, and a Ciudad Juarez newspaper asks the cartels to tell them what they can safely print.

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get worse... 116 bodies turn up in a series of mass graves just south of the border.

More bloody days in Ciudad Juarez, and violence flares in Veracruz as well.

It was a rough week on the highway between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey, and that's not all, not by a long shot.

A former Mexican governor admitted that the previous PRI government negotiated deals with drug cartels to keep the peace. Was that a better strategy than what Calderon is doing now?

Because the update was late last week, it's two weeks worth of Mexican mayhem this week. And yet another grim landmark as the death toll passes 36,000.

Two El Paso teenagers were among the victims of prohibition-related violence in Mexico this past week. The death toll since Calderon took office is now at more than 35,000.

It was a relatively quiet week in Mexico's drug wars -- only a hundred people killed -- but Ciudad Juarez continues to live up to its reputation as one of the world's deadliest cities.

We present two weeks worth of Mexican drug war mayhem, and we review the death toll year by year since Calderon sent in the troops in 2007. The total has passed 35,000.

New year, new body count in Mexico's seemingly unending prohibition-related violence. It's up to 136 so far this year.