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Originally Posted by Bob
Wouldn't a civil war be the people versus the government? This appears to be the government versus the drug traffickers with the people caught in the middle.
I've been down to Puerto Vallarta and it was quite nice, with no signs of violence or anything (that I saw), but I've heard that the northern part of Mexico near the U.S. can be very very rough, and that's where most of the trouble is. I heard there's like 4000 murders a year in that area.
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A civil war is factional or sectarian violence/conflict within a single national entity. Probably has to explode into open war to fully qualify as a civil war, I guess Mexico is close to that point.