For those of us who remember the Mexican border area as it was in the old days – a nice place to go and hang out, have dinner – travel advisories issued by the U.S. State Department periodically remind us how much things have changed in recent years. Especially since 2006 when the Mexican government decided to wage an all-out war with the drug cartels.In hindsight, that decision proved to be a disaster. It created more division among the top cartels at the time – the Gulf Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel – which caused them to fracture,