El Narco'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorised Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion dollar drug trade, the body count23,000 dead in five yearsand sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centres, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned