Mier

This is a town in Mexico. At this point it is either empty or is in its way to be empty. See previous post.

Wikipedia

``Since 2010, the town is mostly abandoned due to the drug cartels.''

The Economist

``Local officials say that all but 200 of Mier’s residents have fled. Responding to the exodus, Eugenio Hernández-Flores, the governor of the state of Tamaulipas, has promised that additional federal security forces will arrive in the next few days. But big military deployments to other violent areas, such as Ciudad Juárez, have not been able to quell the violence. In the meantime, the refugees’ lives are on hold. “What we want is for things to get better in Mier,” said one social worker at the Lions Club. “They want to go back.”''

I can be optimist, or pessimist, or whatever.

The town is empty.

President Calderón lost the War on Drugs, there.

NPR