Mexico is getting bad. First Oaxaca and now Monterrey:

With Gov. Natividad González off in Davos for the World Economic Forum, the Mexican army took to the streets of Monterrey last night, presumably to stem a wave of violence that has claimed four police officers in the state so far this year.

Not too mention this:

Over the last 12 months, the 300-kilometer highway that links the tourist resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo in southern Guerrero state has become the latest front for drug cartels fighting over turf.

The numbers are staggering: 213 executions, 11 decapitations, 35 grenade attacks and 24 murdered police officers from 40 separate attacks. The majority of the killings, which represent over half of all the killings in the state in 2006, were carried out in Acapulco. Additionally, there has been a spike in kidnappings and disappearances - a grim reality that has frightened residents of the area.

Meanwhile, Calderon is in Germany talking about human rights.