Essay On Mexican Cartels

The problem of drugs coming over into the United States from Mexico is not new, but it is serious and in spite of many efforts by American law enforcement and border authorities, it continues day after day. This paper reviews the problem from several perspectives and brings to light attempts the U.S. has made to stop drug trafficking on our border with Mexico. The biggest issue regarding border security is the power of the drug cartels, and the majority of emphasis in this paper is directed towards the cartels.

Mexico has a long history of cartels the deaths, drugs and weapon trafficking is in all time high increasing year by year. “Mexico's gangs have flourished since the late 19th century, mostly in the north due to their proximity to towns along the U.S.-Mexico border. But it was the American appetite for cocaine in the 1970s that gave Mexican drug cartels immense power to manufacture and transport drugs across the border. Early Mexican gangs were primarily situated in border towns where prostitution, drug use, bootlegging and extortion flourished” (Wagner). They keep themselves armed and ready with gun supplies shipped from the U.S, taking control of the drug trades. The violence is spilling so out of control that

The United States Department of State classifies 58 different organizations as foreign terrorist organizations (US DOS). Of those 58 FTOs only one is located in South America, and none are located in Mexico. Despite the lack of official FTOs in Mexico, non-state violence is at an all-time high and the country is more dangerous than ever. This is because of the presence and prevalence of drug cartels throughout the country. These drug cartels employ violent tactics as part of their drug trafficking network. But these cartels are more than just criminal organizations. The scope of the violence, the fear they instill in the population, and the influence they have on policy shows that these organizations should be considered as more than petty criminals trying to make money. While economic gain remains one of the main goals of these groups, there is much that falls under the umbrella of terrorism.

The more the U.S. puts their input into this dilemma the more deaths and damage there will be done in Mexico. They are like a misbehaved child, if you say no they do the opposite. When the U.S. tells these criminals what to do, they do not receive the commands in a positive way. This is all mostly

In 2006, Mexico began to crack down on drug trafficking operations in union with the United States. Why all of the sudden? In regard to that question, my paper will include a history of events leading up to this sudden crack down on drug trafficking, from its start in the 1960’s until today. After the history of the drug war, I will discuss the main states involved like the United States and Mexico itself. Along with their main goal of eliminating drug trafficking all together, although it is a very high expectation. Mexico has sent out 50,000 soldiers that are being paid less than a burrito vendor, in attempt to lessen the

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

This was a very interesting article about how the Drug Cartel in Mexico is on the verge of turning one of the United States bordering countries into a "failed state." But from what I read that should have been expected when the cartel and the government were working together in the early years before President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels in 2006. The relationship between the two before allowed cartels to knock off their competition in a quiet discreet manner. Now Mexico is in a full out war with the cartel, even going as far as activating 45,000 troops to aid in the

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.

We as Americans or even the agencies that work that border might think they do but in reality they don’t. I watched a documentary years ago about the drug cartels but the name slipped my mind. Back in the 60-90s the Columbians were considered the most ruthless cartel group. The pyridine has changed a bit. A shift has occurred and those drugs from South America are being filtered up through Mexico. The cartels have a lot of money, manpower and firepower. The war on drugs is a very costly war to fight. You have one choice in which we could even more militarize and direct. The problem is that our own civil liberties and rights play as a big wall to go after the cartels and drug chain of commands. The above listed could be effective but the American people would have a big problem with this type of hardnosed idea. I think another possibility could be certain states to allow drug usage. In that tax it, have it legal but tax it. I don’t agree with this but it is an option. I don’t know all the stipulations but just an

In recent years, Mexico has been over the global media due to the corruption, drug trafficking, violence, and extortion. Corruption, prejudice, and dishonesty have smeared every piece of our social life. Mexico has reached to the most dangerous, this not news but It is assumed that most government officials, judges, and police officers are on the take, either from each other, the public, or drug cartels. Money and power had ruled men and it has come to a point where if a common man needs any kind of help from the government part, you have to end up taking the dishonest route. In every place, bureaucratic and politicians influence with power and money in such a manner that even the talented and most efficient people in the respective would

The role of the U.S so far in the war on drugs in Mexico has been a failure. Since there is still a demand for drugs in the U.S, Mexican cartels will continue to make them. The U.S needs to keep maintaining a relationship with Mexico and also urge the government to make the necessary changes. The U.S also needs to make some changes to the NAFTA agreement since it has a major role in making Mexico ideal in trafficking and drug production.

Ever since we can remember, Mexico has always been at war with its government and criminal

The US/ Mexico borderlands are the site of a number of “flows” of goods, people, and ideas over the last century. The US is attempting to increase the “flow” of some goods such as food, but restricting others like illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The US has been trying to stop drug smugglers and illegal immigration by setting some policies. When Salinas became the president of Mexico, his number one priority was to stop drug trafficking and smuggling it into the US so both countries could sit and talk about NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). Drug trafficking was and still is the number one problem in Mexico. “During Salina’s six-year term in office, arrests nearly doubled, prominent traffickers were jailed, and principal figures in the Camarena case were convicted.”(Andreas) The Salina’s antidrug offensive helped pacify US critics and paved the way for the passage of NAFTA. But this agreement did not stop drug smugglers, it actually encouraged more drug-related corruption. “As more government resources were devoted to drug control, smugglers responded by devoting more resources to paying off those doing the controlling.”(Andreas) The NAFTA was consider a success in the early years, US Government thought that Salina’s government did very good and it was going to stop drug trafficking. It was not until later that they realized NAFTA was not as good as it looked, Mexican trucks were able to cross the border with food without being checked by the US police, so

In the past year, Mexico's civil drug war has claimed some 6,300 lives. The citizens of Mexico are afraid to help because the police have much less power than the gangs and cartels do, also they are scared to talk to anyone due to the trust issues of not knowing who might be in a cartel, the cartels are much more powerful then the police and the people are horrified of being killed by the cartels. Fear is the biggest issue that prevents many cases from ever being solved because investigators hesitate to dig too deeply and witnesses for crimes refuse to talk. President Barack Obama has recently sent drones over Mexico to try and find information about major cartels, (these are unarmed aircraft flying deep into Mexican territory to help find out information about the cartels movements), and it seems to be helping but the government isn’t sure if it’s enough due to the lack of information being received. In the recent years Mexico’s greatest growth has been the involvement of gaining intelligence using Homeland Security and the American military flying manned aircraft and drones along being provided the United States.

The federal government should examine alternative ways in capturing or killing cartel leaders. Lastly, Mexico needs to offer the United States assistance with information regarding known cartels that is operating in Mexico. The impressions that I gathered was that the in order to understand the effect of the war on drug, particularly, looking at our law enforcement, there needs to be more regulation or awareness that operates like Sicario, does not happen in the