CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Ten years after Mexico declared a war on drugs, the offensive has left some major drug cartels splintered and many old-line kingpins like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in jail, but done little to reduce crime or violence in the nation’s roughest regions.
Some say the war has been a crucial, but flawed, effort.
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