Mexican Drug War

The drug war has caused many problem problem in many countries especially in mexico where the heat of the problem has come to be from raging war between the government of mexico and drug cartels, from many cities not being safe because of the constant violence throughout the country to economic disruption and more. More than 164,000 people had died between 2007 and 2014 because of the drug war in mexico, more than the iraq and afghanistan war zones combine.

In January 2004, senatorial candidate Barack Obama firmly opposed the twenty two-year war on drugs, saying that the United States’ approach in the drug war has been ineffective (Debussman).  Although the term, “war on drugs,” was originally coined by President Richard Nixon in 1971, it wasn’t until Ronald Reagan announced that “drugs were menacing society” that it became a major policy goal to stop widespread use. Following Reagan’s promises to fight for drug-free schools and workplaces, the United States boosted its efforts in its most recent declaration

More than 60,000 people have been killed in the ongoing drug war in Mexico. The fact that this violence has yet to reach its acme is quiet frightening. The freight instilled in the tourist that once found the many hotspots located in Mexico such as Acapulco and Cancun are now terrified to set foot in the land. Due to the fact that there is no safe or secure area where tourist can venture out for a good time. Due to violence Mexico has been affected with a lack of tourist, revenue and its acclaimed bad reputation.

-The Mexican American War: The Mexican-American war was a fight for lad between the Untied States and Mexico where the United States defeated Mexico and gained over five hundred thousand miles of land. The land in known as the Southwest and makes up a vast majority of the United States. A major contributor to the war was the American belief of Manifest Destiny and showed how the United States wanted to extend their

The Mexico-American war resulted directly in the death of 13,000 Americans. But, has effected hundreds of millions, as through this war, a new America was conceived- and the due date was May 9, 1865- the end of the civil war. The Mexico-American war had a mammoth effect on the domestic policies of America because it made lying and taking justified with success and unproven speculations, promoted sectionalism, and provided the federal government extended territory to govern.

The war against the United states and Mexico began on April 25, 1846, just as Mexican troops attacked mounted American troops. Although, Mexico never officially declared war against the U.S. President James K. Polk believed in “manifest destiny” and that America need to across the pacific ocean. The Mexican-American war was the only war that was fought mainly on foreign grounds. Mexico being militarily unprepared for war lost losing one third of its territory to the U.S. On the other hand the U.S. dominated the seas and its economy surpassed Mexico. Mexico was having problems within its country and was not unified at the moment of the war, resulting in not only fighting the Americans but fighting themselves too.

The Mexican drug-trafficking cartels are said to have been established in the 1980s by a man named Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. With the help of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel started the Guadalajara Cartel, which is one of the first to have thrived from association with the Colombian cocaine trade. The two men who helped Miguel Gallardo establish the cartel were arrested, so Gallardo, the single leader of the cartel “was smart enough to privatize the Mexican drug trade by having it run by lesser-known bosses” (The Five Most Famous Drug Cartels”), that he often met with in Acapulco. Eventually Miguel was arrested as well which caused the split of the Guadalajara Cartel into the

Drugs have been smuggled across the Mexico-U.S border for over 25 years. They have been a real problem. Cocaine has been one of the most popular drugs getting past the border. A text called, “Cocaine’s Blowback North: A Prehistory of Mexican Drug Violence”written by Paul Gootenberg, states, “By the mid-1990s, further U.S. pressures pushed the drug’s profitable wholesaling north to Mexico, prelude to the showdown between drug lords and the Mexican state.” This shows us that the drug smuggling went on to spread throughout Mexico and caused many fights between dealers. Over the history of the Mexico-Us border there have been many cartels, cartels are “an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.” Cartels lead the drug trade across the border. Some of the biggest drug dealers cartels have been, the Juarez Cartel, Los Zetas, the Sinaloa cartel, Gulf Cartel, etc. These cartels do more than

In February 2011 the United States began sending unarmed drones to collect information on drug traffickers. Later in August, the United States started in cross border raids, sending CIA operatives and older military personnel to aid the Mexican military. In addition to assisting Mexico, the United States increased security on our side and spends approximately $3 billion on securing the border. Decriminalization is a highly disputed policy option, in November of 2012 two states in the United States passed laws for the legalization of recreational use of marijuana. However, it is still a United States federal law that marijuana is illegal. Although decriminalization would lead to less incarcerations, it would put more drugs in the hands of users and increase drug exporting from Mexico. A prime strategy that both the United States and Mexico have been using is to take out the “high value” individuals or “foot soldiers”. This takes out the mass exporters but still leaves the middle and lower class drug traffickers. Which then the middle class moves up and takes over for whatever “high value” cartel that was just taken out. Almost immediately after, Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December of 2012. Of those who reported missing or those who just “disappeared” the Peña Nieto government claims they will seek to verify all the missing ones. After coming into office, the administration of Peña Nieto changes the security policies. In

There are several parallels which should be addressed when viewing the Drug War in the light of conflict theory. If Marx's original conflict theory is based upon pitting the capitalist against the worker, then the Drug War

A. The United States has played a pretty big role in the Mexican Drug War. Durng the first year of Calderon’s presidency the Mexican government had used around $7 billion dollars in the war against drugs. The Mexican government pointed out to the United States that illegal drug trafficking is a shared problem in need of a shared solution. They also pointed out that most of the financing for the cartels was coming from American drug consumers.

Representatives while the objectives of this bill are for the best intentions of both sides of the policy, the United States getting involved in such matters is dangerous for us and the other countries tend to dislike it.

The Mexican cartels have proven to be unstoppable for the Mexican government. President of Mexico Felipe

markets. Before drugs would be smuggled on a major scale, Mexico would supply alcohol to the U.S. when alcohol was prohibited. It was not until the early 1970’s when drug smugglers began to distribute drugs on a larger scope.

Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today. Illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production, distribution, packaging, and sale of illegal substances. Although today’s "War on Drugs" is a modern phenomenon, drug problems have been a common problem throughout history. The market for illegal drugs is massive, when we consider the estimated global drug trade value is worth $321 billion (Vulliamy). The most drug trafficking happens on the border between Mexico and the United States. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, “Our neighbor is the largest consumer of drugs in the world. And everybody wants to sell him drugs through our door and our window”