Cartel: A Narrative Analysis

There is a common misconception held by society of drug dealers as violent criminals , shady anti- social characters , which is further propagated by the media . But how true is this type of portrayal? These traits are existent , but it isn’t that black and white. According to Shook, Vaughn, Goodkind & Johnson (2013), only little is known about the character traits of drug dealers . The drug market has also changed in recent years with prescription drugs gaining popularity over street drugs ( article 7), which could mean a different type of drug-dealer emerging. In general Three personality types of drug dealers have been determined that differ in their deviant behaviour and drug use. (article 2 ) Specifically the age group of 12-17 has been widely studied in regards to drug dealing, as they are a group that is at high risk and there is evidence that drug- trafficking in adolescents has increased ( article 5). In an american survey, The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), it has been estimated that 8% of 12-17 year olds have sold drugs before. So to prevent adolescents from later life drug dealing, they are the ones that have to be targeted with prevention measures.

Mexican drug cartels have been expanding its portfolios to include doing business in sex trafficking. The Zetas are the most feared drug cartel in Mexico’s drug, sex trafficking trade, and etc.; the Zetas are a criminal army made up of defectors from the Mexican military. Anybody who crosses them will more than likely get their heads chopped off or won’t live to see another day.

Violence in Mexico has always existed and always will exist, but lately it has risen tremendously. It consists of two enormous groups going head to head because of disagreements. As common sense, we all know this never ends well. The less people involved in this predicament would not cause as many deaths and damage to the country. The more the people the more opinions there is causing there to be more disputes and tension between the two sides. Due to this, the United States intervening with Mexico’s violence leads to bad results, therefore they should opt out.

SinaloaMore…Signal drug cartel, is the biggest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in North, Central and South America. Which was established in the 80s and operates in several Mexican states and many other countries with criminal activities such as money laundering. It has grown far beyond our borders and is now believed to be very influential and a far-reaching drug organization in the United States. The cartel members rely on connections at the highest levels and are led by Mexico's mighty drug lord Joaquin GuzmanGuzman's alias “El Chapo” who recently escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico. SinaloaMore…Signal has long been connected with contraband drugs in Mexico, as well as the location for marijuana and poppy cultivation.

The document then discusses how the administration will handle the cartels. The main policy will include strengthening federal law and “ensur(ing) that federal law informant agencies give a high priority and devote sufficient resource to efforts to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations…including through the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of members.” Trump wants more federal agencies to share information and coordinate with other federal law enforcement in order to dismantle cartels. The people that would lead this combined effort are the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and Secretary of Homeland Security. The federal agencies that would help combat cartels include, the Organized

The increasing momentum of Mexican drug cartels is accompanied by a surge of violence and police corruption that is catastrophic for Southern Texas-Mexico border city protection in the United States. This escalates the necessity for firearms possessed by citizens because of their defense benefits that surpass any negative effect. Mexican drug cartels are criminal organizations that are located in Mexico and focus on profiting large amounts of money from illegal substances by creating the product and smuggling it across the U.S.-Mexico border. This billion-dollar market is brutally fought for by the Sinola Cartel and the Gulf Cartel, who establish fear and authority in Mexican cities eliminating all that oppose them including those in the United

from both countries are in place, and though they are productive, they are not yielding the results needed to completely destroy the cartel and the destruction it brings.

Listen. The sound of the blood rusted chainsaw roars over the eerie silence that plagues the yard. Feel. Rough brick massaging the back of a bald middle-aged man. See. A crimson splatter-painted corpse on the fresh, sticky licorice colored pavement. Smell. The fresh blood oozing out of a rogue head that had been rolled across the alleyway. Taste. The irony tar like saliva laced with blood as you wait for the masked man to steal all sense from your body (Beith n. pag.). With the increasing influence of Mexican drug cartels, all impoverished citizens become subject to violent hate crimes against the government. The government 's lack of control over their people, criminal justice system, and economics demonstrates the instability plaguing Mexican borders. The Mexican government must rise together to legalize marijuana in foreign countries, increase safety in underprivileged communities, and better organize the government in order to save thousands of innocent civilians from horrific chainsaw massacres.

The Mexican cartel is a ruthless crime origination. It controls Mexico through bribes and fear. There are many factions of the cartel, and they are at constant war with one another. They war over many reasons from drugs to human trafficking. These battles often spill out into the streets causing the loose of many innocent lives. The cartel has a strangle hold on the Mexican people.

In ten years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, 6,335 US soldiers have been killed in combat. In less than half that span of time, from December 2006 to December 2010, approximately 38,000 Mexican citizens were killed by cartel related violence. Even without counting the many thousands of Mexicans who were killed before December 2006, the War on Drugs, over ten years, will be fifteen times deadlier than the War on Terror. The level of violence near the border is unacceptable and the United States must share the blame. The rising death toll serves as the proof of what certain people have been saying for years: both the Mexican and American governments need to change their strategy in order to minimize the presence of drug cartels and to

All over the southwest U.S there have been drug cartels which smuggle drugs and weapons from country to country illegally. More recently

A crew of four 15 year old neighborhood friends felt it was time to start their own gang. The now rundown city of Clarksville needed another gang like they needed another pot hole in the street. Luckily, these boys idea of being a gang did not include using violence and crime as part of their membership or so they thought. Their main goal for uniting as one was simple, do whatever they could do to come up with $1200 a piece to buy brand new four wheelers. They would often gather at their headquarters, Tim's front yard and talk for hours about the day they when they would be able to ride around town, practicing stunts in the back of Clark's supermarket. Clark's supermarket was the ideal place as there was tons of man made dirt hills thanks

Recognized as one of the most fearless and violent cartels in all of Mexico, Los Zetas was brought forth by a need for personal security in the Gulf Cartel. This former hit man/security style operation, active since 1997, has since grown into its own ruthless and violent organization becoming the second most powerful cartel and easily the most feared in all of Mexico. Heavily trained and armed, members of Los Zetas are set apart from other cartels because of the level of brutality they are willing to administer to those who cross them, though they had initially hoped that by being more intimidating they would have to fight less. It is their command of the drug market, their lack of fear in using violent tactics, and the

As a child when my mother would travel to Mexico there was always minimal extortion, “mordidas” from the judiciales when crossing the boarders. The country seemed relatively safe at the time. The mordidas was a common incident for people who would travel from the United States to their home towns. My mother said that it was uncommon to hear about drugs, massacre, and executions. Nowadays, this is the new norm in Mexico .

Disregarding the horrifying events which some people my go through their pride and love for their country can be greater leaving those people unwilling to leave behind their home country as Cristina did. However, after that event Cartel violence managed to find her again, says Hernandez: