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Worse on a daily basis. >> i know that it sounds counterintuitive and it will to your viewers but there is a direct correlation between increased violence and fact that these groups are feeling squeezed and cornered. they're lashing out because they're lose, they're trying to control the last remaining routes of drugs into the u.s. and we've seen a bit of that taking place over the past three years. >> we've also seen the president of mexico, president calderon, he's taking steps, using the mexican marines and others to go into these communities and basically take charge of local police respon...

Charge of local police responsibilities because the place are corrupt. >> we've had obviously a very important challenge in mexico which is the corruption festered for so many years that only the armed forces could be used as a stop gap measure by the president to initially take them down and force them back, and that's what he's done, to create the breathing spaces where you can then move in and rebuild communities and make sure the rule of law is prevailing. >> how prevalent is this corruption among local law enforcement in mexico? >> i don't want to quantify, but it's a big challenge. >> a ...