MEXICO CITY (Agencies) -- Mexico's president-elect says murder and mayhem fueled by drug smuggling have overwhelmed the governments of the nation's capital and key states across the country, AP reported.

Felipe Calderon said the wave of bloodshed is ravaging state governments controlled by each of Mexico's three major parties. He singled out Mexico City, the northern states of Sinaloa and Tamaulipas, the southern state of Guerrero and his home state of Michoacan, as being especially hard-hit.

"It seems to me that drug violence has overwhelmed the governments," Calderon said Monday in a radio interview. Calderon called for legislative and law enforcement efforts to curb drug violence across party lines "in a very coordinated way."

Calderon takes office Dec. 1.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City has long expressed concern about the growing wave of violence along the northern border, where people are gunned down with automatic weapons almost daily, and dozens of Americans have been kidnapped.

Authorities say more than 1,500 people have died in Mexican drug violence so far this year.

Narcotics investigators on both sides of the border attribute the spike in killings to a territorial war between drug gangs battling for control of lucrative smuggling corridors into the United States.

Felipe Calderon, said also on Tuesday that he is willing to talk with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to mend bilateral relations, Xinhua reported.

Calderon told reporters that he wants to establish good relations with all Latin American nations, including Venezuela.

He added that he does not rule out the possibility of inviting Chavez to his Dec. 1 inauguration ceremony, but it has to be discussed through diplomatic channels.

Relations between Mexico and Venezuela have been strained since November 2005, after Chavez said at the fourth Organization of American States Summit in Argentina that he was "saddened by the submissiveness" of Mexico's outgoing President Vicente Fox.

Chavez's remarks were a response to Fox's public defense for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a U.S.-promoted trade deal.

The row was intensified during Mexico's presidential election campaign, when Calderon, the candidate for Mexico's ruling National Action Party, used images of Chavez in his campaign against left-winger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.