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Surge In Cartel Violence Emerges As Key Issue For Mexico's Presidential Candidates
ResumeMexico's presidential campaign season is underway and one of the issues candidates are grappling with is a surge in violence related to drug cartels. There were more than 29,000 killings last year in Mexico, the most since the government started taking comparable records in 1997.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Alfredo Corchado (@ajcorchado), correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and author of "Midnight in Mexico."
This segment aired on April 5, 2018.