Topic: Ciudad Juarez

A heart surgeon's home in Mexico was reportedly ransacked by a military platoon in an act of intimidation related to a state attorney general's resignation. The incident illustrates the deteriorating conditions in Mexico, where extortion and military collusion with cartels have become endemic. In Ciudad Juarez, a precipitous drop in homicides is attributed to the Sinaloa Cartel winning the local turf war and imposing its own order.

Alec Ross describes a new State Department initiative in Mexico designed to allow citizens to report cartel crimes via anonymous text messages. The program aims to bypass the fear of retaliation associated with visiting police stations in high-violence areas like Ciudad Juarez. The hosts express extreme skepticism regarding the technical possibility of true anonymity in such a system and mock Ross's refusal to explain the underlying technology.