Mexican drug violence deteriorates security

A bloody drug turf war continues to claim innocent lives in Mexico. Parents are too afraid to let their children venture into the streets. 

Aurelio Emil would rather keep his two daughters couch potatoes. Outdoor activities are too risky a venture.

A battle between two powerful drug cartels in the border town has claimed nearly 5-thousand lives during the past two years. 

Mexican media film ammunition seized during the arrest of Alberto Mendoza Contreras alias "The bad kid", a suspected leader of the  Beltran Leyva cartel, in Monterrey March 19, 2010. Drug violence  has exploded across Mexico since President Felipe Calderon came  to power in late 2006 and set the army on smuggling gangs. Turf  wars between rival cartels and security forces have killed nearly  19,000 people in three years, with the worst of the bloodshed  seen in northern border cities. REUTERS/Kristian Lopez