{"id":26596,"date":"2011-06-07T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_if_monterrey_falls_mexico_falls\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:46:31","slug":"reuters_if_monterrey_falls_mexico_falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26596","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters Special Report) If Monterrey falls, Mexico falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just four years, Monterrey, a manufacturing city of 4 million people 140 miles from the Texan border, has gone from being a model for developing economies to a symbol of Mexico&#8217;s drug war chaos, sucked down into a dark spiral of gangland killings, violent crime and growing lawlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Since President Felipe Calderon launched an army-led war on the cartels in late 2006, grenade attacks, beheadings, firefights and drive-by killings have surged.<\/p>\n<p>That has shattered this city&#8217;s international image as a boomtown where captains of industry built steel, cement and beer giants in the desert in less than a century &#8212; Mexico&#8217;s version of Dallas or Houston.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/06\/01\/us-mexico-drugs-monterrey-idUSTRE7502VG20110601\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just four years, Monterrey, a manufacturing city of 4 million people 140 miles from the Texan border, has gone from being a model for developing economies to a symbol of Mexico&#8217;s drug war chaos, sucked down into a dark<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26596\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,99,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}