Fresh off of local elections, it’s easy for us to forget here how good we have it compared to, say, Mexico. Down south of the border, politicians are going down in defeat like anywhere else, but a lot of them are getting killed by drug gangs rooting for their own candidate. In a Wall Street Journal (WSN) story published May 25, the opening paragraph describes a candidate running for mayor in Ciudad Obregon (second largest city in the state of Sonora). While the poor guy was standing on a crowded street corner handing out campaign fliers, two guys approached him, pumped ...