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expressvPN.com slash Ben. Okay, so the big news of the morning is really horrific news from the Mexican border state of Sonora.

Mexico has been for a very, very long time, a deeply hellacious and violent place, at least in certain segments of the

country. There was just a couple of years ago a massive controversy over a study, this is in 2017,

showing that Mexico was the second to deadliest country in the world, like more deadly than

every country other than Syria. That was an annual survey by the International Institute for

Strategic Studies that showed that Mexico's death toll was an annual survey by the International Institute for Strategic Studies

that showed that Mexico's death toll was surpassed only by that in Syria. President Trump at the time

retweeted a link to a CNN article on the report. Parts of Mexico, according to the UK Guardian,

have suffered horrific violence since the then-president Felipe Calderon declared war on organized crime a decade ago.

The struggle as of 2017 had claimed an estimated 200,000 lives and left more than 30,000 people missing. That was as of two years ago, so the numbers are much larger now. Mexico claims that large swathes of the country are unaffected by drug violence. And he said, well, it's not like Syria because the whole country there is engulf. But the fact is that the country of Mexico has been plagued by severe corruption

issues, by extraordinary acts of violence in which you will actually see mobile gangs of

cartels actually take over entire areas of the country. The country is so poorly governed that there have been

serious questions about the relationship between various administrations in Mexico and the drug

cartels. Are the drug cartels paying for those administrations? Are they the ones really in

control of the government? Can Mexico actually control all this? It makes a pretty solid case for

why there should be a border wall for President Trump. Well, that case burst back out into the open today after a horrific massacre of nine

Americans in Mexico. We'll get to that story in just one second. First, let's talk about

saving some money on a brighter note. The fact is that the holidays are approaching. And because

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