“McLeary notes that it’s hardly a mystery why the Mexican government would want the drones hovering near that stretch of border: it’s right by violence-riven Ciudad Juarez, a drug-cartel-plagued city that has seen a stunning 3000 murders in 2010, thanks in part to a veritable flood of American guns. The drones might as well fly, because very little else is working. A recent paper from the Center for a New American Security analogized the region’s violence to an insurgency. The Mexican Army went into the city in 2008 bearing artillery.”