Mexican Drug Cartels

The United States agency of drugs have discovered that for all of the illegal drugs consumed in the nation has been transported by the Mexican cartels. “U.S. federal officials say that the mexican cartels operate in dozens of U.S. cities and analysts say they are moving to consolidate their control of the entire supply chain of illegals drugs”(Schwartz, 1). The government of the United States have been conducting the investigation to now if the cartels are north. Many big cities today have a piece of the cartel organization working there and also producing drugs to distribute within the city. According to the investigation done by the DEA and U.N officials “Mexican cartels have established command - and - control centers to orchestrate cocaine shipments by sea and air along the still wild caribbean coast with the help of local authorities”(Booth, 2). All though that the cartel are moving to the United States they are still leaving command center in mexico to conduct shipments by ground or any other shipments overseas. The cartel is able to transport such quantities of drugs with help of the local authorities and other corrupt government officials.

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

Mexican Drug Cartels have been a problem for many years. The cartels are an organized crime organization and they don’t just deal drugs; they commit murders too. The Cartels origins are traced back to the Columbian Cali and Medellin mega-cartels who were responsible for the majority of drug trafficking into the United States. Crime has existed for many years but it surfaced more when Pablo Escobar was popular. Pablo Escobar was one the main transporters for cocaine throughout Mexico and the United States coming straight out of Columbia. Law enforcement tried to stop the drug trade but Escobar formed a relationship with Mexico-based traffickers who smuggled drugs into the United States. Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo also known as “The Godfather” of the cartels. Seeing how he established the Guadalajara Cartel, which is recognized as the first Mexican Cartel, and were the first to link up with Escobar and started the transportation of cocaine

As the war against the drug trading organizations continues, there seem to be two reasonable options. In the first, the major cartels are targeted. The Sinaloa and Gulf cartels will lose their clasp on the borders and be consumed by smaller scale operations. This will leave the Mexican government with a bigger number of cartels, but each will have smaller areas of influence and fewer people on the ground. Whether that type of situation is easier to deal with than the one currently facing the Mexican government is up to debate. In the second outcome, the opposite chain of events occurs. The central government targets smaller, weaker groups, disbanding them. This would allow for the big

President Calderon’s war against the cartels has led to the death of over 100,000 people. Drug cartels such as Los Zetas have increased their involvement in human smuggling using people as forced labor and demanding ransom money. Los Zetas’ 10,000 gunmen have engrossed the border as they drive 8,500 trucks into Texas on a daily basis. As of 2010, drug cartels have their hold on 1,286 U.S. cities. With a U.N. estimated narcotics market of $60 billion annually, the Mexican cartels profits on the U.S. are at $39 billion and

Strategies mean nothing in the war on Mexican cartels if the U.S. Government does not get to the root of the issue. As long as there is a demand for drugs in the United States, the cartels will find a way around any security measure. Border protection agents are seeing a steep decline in the trafficking of marijuana since the U.S. legalized the drug. Many think that ending prohibition of illicit drugs is the answer. Right now, America is not winning the war on drugs. The cost involved with prohibition is exuberant; over $50 billion spent in the war on drugs, which is a massive economic blunder (United States Department of Homeland Security, 2017). The focus should be a combination of prevention through education and cessation programs. To eliminate the demand, make the supply readily available on a legally-regulated market. This would curtail to the cartel market because the U.S. would allow production on U.S. soil. In the simplest terms, criminalizing drugs puts money back into the hands of the cartels while

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

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.

Although the narcotrafficking wars that have plagued Mexico in recent years are truly a combination of a variety of factors coming together, it is my belief that at the heart (and the primary cause) is that they are really just criminal organization fighting over turfs. Cartels are centralized around violence and intimidation rather than being centralized around the idea of an insurgency of sorts. The primary cause behind all this is the search for higher profits no matter what the means of acquisition for these profits are, even if this means that civilians will be caught in between these drug wars. The cartels having a political agenda does not seem like an accurate representation, primarily because more than anything are driven by profit more than anything else. The idea of the cartels being some form of insurgency was in my opinion due to the way in

During the mid-2000’s former President of Mexico Felipe Calderon announced his war on the cartels and led to a crackdown against these organizations, along with assistance with

The situation between government agencies and the drug cartels in Mexico is similar to the one in Colombia 20 years ago. As I have previously said, throughout the 1990s the Cali and Medellin drug cartels dominated the world cocaine trade. Both cartels were made up of several different drug-trafficking organizations, each containing its own specific organizational structure. These cartels hid their cocaine production labs in remote, jungle regions, where Colombian insurgent groups provided them cover. In exchange for this cover, rebel groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia derived much of their funding from the cartels. The cartels were also strong advocates toward bribing. Whether it is police, judges, or politicians, those who did not agree to the varying bribes were often threatened and held captive. Looking back, the situation regarding the drug cartels in Colombia seemed daunting and undefeatable. Colombia was on the verge of political and economic failure due to the two quasi-military drug cartels increasing the rates of political violence, criminality, and the national homicide rate. During “a recent Rand report on Colombia draws a relationship between the Colombian drug trade and violence: “Current instability in Colombia derives from the interaction and resulting synergies stemming from two distinct tendencies: the development of an underground criminal drug economy and the growth of armed challenges to the state’s authority...”(Holmes, Jennifer

Mexico is known for many things ranging from there beautiful coastlines to there ancient ruins and museums to the brutal war of drug trafficking. The drug war in Mexico is one of the biggest events in narcotics history. Drug trafficking was best known in Michoacan, Guanajuato and Guerrero but it has recently spread across all of Mexico. Michoacan was the first place where it erupted due to an organization of cartels known as La Familia. Mexico was once a place that didn’t have as much violence or drugs but its economic crisis lead to the outbreak of violence, the rise of the world’s biggest cartel Joaquin Guzman Loera, and deals Guzman made with people in Mexico and the United States.

Mexico a country with more than one hundred million people, with most of it population living in urban areas. Mexico was consider part of Spain territory, and fought for its independence in 1821 when it became a free nation from Spain. Mexico have been involve in wars again the United Stated, and Frances, that intended to gain possession of this territory with not success (Abadinsky, 2014). Unfortunately the latest war that Mexico is encountering, is one of the most violence or gruesome in his history, the war on drug and drug trafficking is not been battle with any foreign enemy but within, and slowly the Mexican authorities are losing most of their territory. The trafficking of guns, drugs, and people have become one of the major problems that Mexico have even

When former Mexican President Felipe Calderón took power in 2006, he vowed to combat Mexico’s drug trafficking problem and to help end the Mexican drug cartel’s influence on Mexico. Calderón quickly began to militarize Mexico’s so-called “War on Drugs,” deploying military personnel and federal police forces; in fact, “the use of military for counternarcotic initiatives increased by 133 percent” (Rosen and Zepeda 24). The result, however, has been more than 175,000 deaths in the past ten years, and violence that shows little sign of stopping, as the number of homicides in Mexico grew by over 22% in 2016 (Linthicum). Many contemporary American scholars blame corruption within the Mexican government for elevated cartel violence. They fear Mexico is becoming a “narco-democracy,” like Colombia was, where the government

The government has made some gains, but at a heavy price. A total of 34,612 people have died in drug-related killings in Mexico in the first four years (Siddique). Most of these killing are between cartel rivals fighting for the control of territories. There are five cartels operating in Mexico: the Sinaloa, the Gulf, Juarez, Tijuana, the Zetas. The major cartels are the Gulf, Sinaloa and Juarez (Cook 21). Many of these cartels have joined together forming powerful alliances known as the “Federation” (Cook 17). The cartels work together, but they remain independent organizations.