Vancouver Under Siege

I'm afraid to visit my mother in Vancouver. The past few months have seen dozens of shootings, especially in the suburb of Surrey through which I pass and even stay at times. Gang violence is apparently directly related to the Mexican drug cartel wars. As sources of cocaine dry up so the gangs internecine warfare up and down the West Coast intensifies. Of course British Columbia is now a multi-billion dollar marijuana grow-op so it seems rather facile to blame the Mexicans. My post of three or four months ago picked up on the incessant violence though. Some parts of Mexico are under travel advisories because of the violence. Ciudad Juarez gets 200 drug related corpses through its new morgue every month. It is already looking to expand.