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Drug Trafficking In Mexico

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Although the issue in Mexico of combating against drugs trafficking organizations (DTOs)1 in other words transnacional criminal organizations (TCOs)2, is not a new topic for the Mexican’s government, in the last decade these said criminal asociations, have changed their modus operandi as a result of the strategy in 2006 by the former Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, who deployed fifthy thousands of troops between navy, army, and air force these last two involved in marijuana and poppy erradication in the last 40 years throughout the country, as well ten of thousands federal police for assiting of the local law enforcement forces to combat this problem, the main reason for using the armed forces in these operations, was because this …show more content…

In another case, these organizations have extended their activities to the United States of America, acquiring transnational nuances, according to the DEA Intelligence Report DEA-DCT-DIR-065-15, july 2015, it says “Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) the greatest criminal drug threat to the United States; no other group is currently positioned to challenge them” 5 as described above by the DEA gives us an idea of the complexity and dimension of the problem becoming a transnational issue.
In addition to the above described is evident the inability of the local law enforcement forces to solve this problem without support from the armed forces, this is mainly note in the northern border states with the violence intensified in the last decade, thereof, Drugs Trafficking organizations (DTOs) is a serious threat to the Mexican security, because it causes social inestability, human rights violation, and economic …show more content…

These students intended hijack four passengers buses apparently to transport more students to a meeting in Mexico, city, which failed.
As a consequence the Mexican government ruled against this unfortunate act following up the case through the attorney of justice of Mexico in order to find the culprits, whence providing assistance and legal support to the parents of the 43 disappeared in the hands of these criminal gangs; this horrific act caused consternation even in the international community and some protective human rights organizations.
Equally important stuff is human rights, the drugs trafficking organizations have mutated and encountered a profit market due to the flow of foreign immigrants most of them from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua around 400,000 per year3 crossing the southern border of Mexico, in order to go into United States of America, at the same time these people have to travel more than 2,000 kilometers of mexican soil from south to north most of them by train, facing problems in their journey such as murder, trafficking, extortion, sexual abuse and kidnapping by the merciless criminal gangs called "Los Zetas" and

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