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This week Inside USA travels to Mexico to look at the country's drug war and to examine the role the US is playing in it.
The bodies are piling up - over 1,800 killings so far this year alone.
In the media it is usually portrayed as a campaign by Felipe Calderon, the Mexican president, to smash the power of Mexico's drug cartels.
About 25,000 military troops and federal police have flooded into a number of cities.
The US is also wading into the fight with approximately a billion and a half dollars of direct military aid being pledged by George Bush.
Called the Merida initiative, or Plan Mexico, the move follows a similar blueprint to the widely criticised, and ultimately failed, Plan Colombia.
Watch part two of this episode
This episode of Inside USA aired from Friday, July 18, 2008.
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