Drug Wars in Mexico

What’s more these cartels’ will also use the kidnaped women and girls for their own personal use. Nevertheless, the spread of human trafficking in Mexico has declined, yet the biggest problem has moved into the Mexican mountains, where remote areas have little or no authority at all. These areas are where the cartel usually pays off the authorities. But, in the case

“Organized crime had coopted practically all policing and spaces for the administration of justice” States Maldonado Aranda in Stories of Drugs in rural Mexico. The impact on the community is addiction rates are rising and rapes as well. AA groups have been taken over by the Cartel to help support themselves by recruitment for gunmen, also financially. (Maldonado Aranda, 2014) Young women are dragged by their own peers, then raped, again withthe silent violence they don’t have the agency to speak up about it. Who has stepped up to help is Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde, the founder of Autodefensas. Autodefensas is a militia in Mexico who fights the Knights of Templar Cartel in Michoacan.(Manzo, 2015) Dr. Valverde wanted to arm the citizens in small cities in Michoacan against the Cartels, I couldn't agree more. To find the perfect solution to helping the people, it’s needed to have field work completed then applied anthropology. I believe arming the citizens will give them more protection in day to day life. Arming the people can give them agency to start a civil war against the corrupt government controlled by the Cartel. I also believe the US government should get involved and have the freedom to expedite the Cartel leaders and gunmen to the states.I don’t think removing immigrants from their homes to the states will be effective. Removing the Cartels will let the people of

An author, Francisco E. Gonzalez, discussed one incident that took place, “A grenade attack on September 15, 2008, left eight dead and more than one hundred injured on the central square in Morelia (the capital of the state of Michoacán), on a night Mexicans were celebrating the 198th anniversary of their country’s independence.” (Gonzalez 72). This incident shows that safety is never guaranteed with the cartel’s violent and erratic behavior.

Mexico prison riot leaves 49 dead. The fight started around midnight and lasted about 30-40 minutes. The fight was between two rival groups and was fought using sharp weapons, bats, and sticks. Also, there was a fire that was started in a storage room. One side of the fight was led by a member of the notorious Zetas drug cartel, Juan Pedro Zaldivar Farias. The other side of the fight was led by Jorge Ivan Hernandez Cantu. All the people that were killed were male prisoners and five that were injured were in critical condition. So far, fourty of the fourty-nine prisoners have been identified. Demanding information, a crowd of the prisoner’s relatives outside the jail blocked roads, threw sticks and rocks, and tried to open the main prison gate,

The Gulf cartel is struggling to maintain its territory on the eastern coast of Mexico and has become brutal. The Beltran Leyva brothers, leaders of their drug cartel, have been high profile targets of the Calderón presidency. Their death has thrown the cartel into confusion, and neighboring groups have been moving to absorb the Beltran Leyva territory. La Familia Michoacan was a new cartel which quickly gained a reputation for being violent. After the deaths of the main leaders of this group, a power struggle left the cartel in the hands of new leaders who renamed it The Knights Templar. Their organization is incorporated with an abnormal evangelical message and remains among the most violent of the cartels.

Many citizens of Latin America blame the United States of America for causing the violence and drug problems. In the early 1990’s, America passed a law that allowed any non-american to be deported if they committed a crime in the US. This law applied to even the immigrants with greencards staying legally in the United States. Los Angeles authorities used this new law to fight their streetgangs. Many of these street gangs had Latin American influences. From 2001 to 2010 more then 100,000 of this gang members were shipped away. There was one huge problem! Many of these members came to America as children so, in their home country they had no family, no friends, no one. This meant they had to bond with each other. They only really knew one

Mexico vs. United States drug war for many years the U.S has blamed Mexico for its violence, and much of the violence coming into the United States. Americans tend to blame Mexico and everyone else for its violence when most of the time they are the ones to blame. As a matter of fact, they are people who tend to believe the drug war in Mexico all started because of the United States. Mexican president Miguel Aleman said once too united states president the U.S is just as much to blame as Mexico the only difference is Mexico is the big trampoline of the drug war and the united states is the big pool referring to Mexico as being the crossing of all drugs around the world in search too deliver their merchandise to the big pool the united states

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Critics outside and inside of Mexico who are witness to the casualties of the Mexican War on Drugs are keen to blame Felipe Calderon’s administration (the Mexican government) for the escalation of conflict within the country starting in 2006; arguing that the fast militarization and the lack of the state’s strength augmented such conflict. In the article “Did the Military Interventions in the Mexican Drug War Increased Violence?” by Valeria Espinosa and Donald B Rubin; the statistics analysts, studied two articles from a leading Mexican magazine Nexos, both with the same conclusion, “that military interventions had increased homicide rates in those states where intervention took place” (Espinosa and Rubin, 17). The results, although it was

There is a saying in Mexico that states “Mejor vivir como un rey por cinco años que vivir como laborador por cincuenta” which translates to “better to live as a king for five years than as an Ox for fifty.” This is particularly a famous saying between the poor youth because their opportunities are so limited they believe it is better to be part of the “narcos” and be a “narco king” for a short period than to live a long time as a laborer, worker, or slave. Consequently, throughout the years, drug cartels (the most famous being Sinaloa) have developed across Mexico with the intent of making money by selling drugs; this has caused many encounters with the law, corruption, and death. In addition, Fund for Peace

The Mexican Drug War is a war that’s never going to end mainly because of the corruption that takes place in Mexico. Drug Trafficking dates back to the 1900s, but nobody knows for sure how long this has been going on. It’s said that it all started with liquor during prohibition (Al Capone era); after prohibition liquor was then replaced with drugs like Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and Marihuana. Forward to a century later The US of America made a deal with the Mexican government a few years ago that allowed Drug cartels not only to push weight into the US but also receive information about the opposite cartels from Mexico and in return for Mexico to receive fire arms to supply the deadly cartels. Cartels like the Sinaloa

Every day the U.S. border patrol has to constantly keep an eye out for the smuggling of drugs by Mexican Cartels. There has been much violence due to this drug problem that has left many people near the border killed and is allowing more criminals to obtain these weapons. A lot of this attention goes to the U.S. because many of the weapons utilized in the “drug war” are U.S. made and is interfering with trading relations amongst both the U.S. and Mexico. With this current violent situation in Mexico this has transformed the flow of weapons to an even larger scale.

government official who will acknowledge that these programs have been counterproductive. Based upon the law of averages, we’re simply arming and training future drug cartel members. For instance, various members of GAFE, a Mexican Special Forces groups known for torturing and killing left-wing groups (including the Zapatistas), have been directly linked with the drug trade. After graduating from the School of the Americas, approximately 200 out of the 500 members of GAFE transitioned into drug trafficking. They formed the Zetas, arguably the most violent and formally militarized cartel. In fact, some of them were arrested for drug trafficking immediately after training at the School of the Americas. The modus operandi of the Zetas is to recruit individuals that have received military training. In fact, some other Zetas’ founders were from another SOA trained right-wing paramilitary group in Guatemala, known as

Currently in Mexico, there is a “War on Drugs” that is basically all the drug cartels against the Mexican government. This “War on Drugs” began in 2006 and is currently ongoing due to incorrect government presence and not being able to stop every cartel. This war has caused more problems that have just about nothing to do with drugs and is just causing other civilians to do certain things and go through situations that they do not deserve or need to go through. In act to try and end this war, there are police and other military soldiers doing whatever they think they have to do or what they think will get them what they want.

There is not a concrete solution to dismantle the drug cartels. The United States has worked along with Mexico to fight and win the battle against the powerful drug cartels. They need to attack and stop the source of power. That source is the money. To stop the flow of money, the demand for drugs has to be stopped. Once the