Mexican Political Parties

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 consists of three main political parties that build the framework for the Federal Government of Mexico. These three parties are the Institutional Revoluntionary Party (PRI), The National Action Party (PAN), and the most recent addition, the Democratic Revolutionary (PRD). There are many similarites between Mexico's political parties and the United States, the PAN leans to the right of the political spectrum making it Republican, and PRD swings to the left making for a Democratic party. The most popular of the three, PRI sits right in the middle of the spectrum and has more of a independent politcal ideology.

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

The United States have declared that it is doing its best to combat the war on drugs. The drug problem has not stopped and the people continue to buy drugs no matter what circumstances they are obtained. With drugs prices rising, people are willing do anything to get drugs even if it leads them to become involved in criminal activities such as robbery. The money and military activity have not been enough, and the “urban problem,” has not been resolved. The United States has the largest demand of drugs in the world. While other countries also face the drug problem, the United States has spent the most money and law enforcement; however, its effectiveness is questionable. Consequently, now there is a great amount of drugs coming from Mexico’s borderline into the United States. The drug cartels have become more violent, killing Mexican officers and innocent people in order to smuggle their drugs. The United States needs more security control and better coordination between agencies to fight the violent Mexican drug war spilling across the southern border. There is not enough organization between the D.E.A and other groups such as the Department of Homeland Security. The United States has little hope of winning the war unless enough protection on the border and Border States are developed. The agencies need better coordination between the federal, state and locals agencies in order to prevent more drugs to cross

Mexico is controlled by a federal government. This means that the there is a central government that divides its power to smaller local governments. A federal government is composed of three arms: the judicial system, the legislative system, and the executive system. The judicial system is made up of the courts and the court's systems. Their purpose is to ensure that laws are followed to the latter. They are the watchdogs of laws. They listen to and make rulings regarding law breakings. The legislature is the law making system of the government. Its main purpose is to make laws. The executive’s main purpose is to execute laws that are made by the legislature. This arm is composed of the president, the vice president and other

According to the U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center, drug cartels can be define as “…large, highly sophisticated organizations composed of multiple [Drug Trafficking Organizations] DTOs and cells with specific assignments such as drug transportation, security/enforcement, or money laundering” (2010). Also, it is mention within this national drug threat assessment that was done by the U.S. Department of Justice, that the “greatest drug trafficking threat” to the United States is “Mexico” (2010). With this been said one can understand that the roots majority of the criminal groups that operate domestically within the U.S. can be traced back to Mexico. So, in order to understand how this criminal organizations form

When immigrants initially arrive to America, they arrive with distinct goals from one another, some here to start a fresh and better life than in Mexico, but others with an ulterior motive. The threat of terrorism and crime has only increased since immigrants from Mexico started arriving. While all crime cannot be directly pointed to solely immigrants from Mexico it still, however contributes to the rise of terror that occurs in America. A considerable amount of drugs present in the United States is linked to Drug Trafficking Offenses (DTO) from Mexico. Morris states “Since 2006, more than 60,000 people have been killed in the DTO-related violence, and more than 26,000 have gone missing.Despite enormous casualties, including members of U.S. law enforcement, the turmoil in Mexico does not receive nearly the level of scrutiny or attention from the U.S. government

The most activity that these cartels do is around the United States and Mexican border by transporting illegal substances and even people and putting many people in danger not just in Mexico but in the United States. But also the economy is being hurt because the United States losing about one point six million dollars annually to these cartels contributing to smuggling and the U.S is number drug using country all around the world. While more and more smuggling is happening cartel kingpin for example Joaquin Guzman is getting more powerful and being the number one supplier to Chicago that most of these narcotics are being distributed. Statistics of that came from the DEA reports that cartel presence in the United States cities are getting bigger from the years of two-thousand-eight to twenty-eleven climbing the scale to twelve hundred on the number of reports from American communities that suspected narcotics presence. Making the struggle to make communities more secure but organizations that are not affiliated to the government are helping to get rid all this problematic situations with cartels such as the Chicago Crime

Mexico like many other countries have been combating organized crime for many years. These organized crime cartels have cause Mexico more than 6 years of murders, increased violence, drug trafficking, among other criminal activities. The most notorious drug cartels are as follows; The Sinaloa Cartel, The Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO), The Juarez Cartel, The Knights Templar, The Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas, and The Tijuana Cartel. These are the 7 most notorious cartels of many more groups residing in Mexico. It is important to know the characteristics of these cartels to understand any future activities from these groups; and whether they are a potential risk to the United States.

Political parties: There are nine nationally recognized political parties of Mexico. The parties are the National Action Party, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Party of the Democratic Revolution, Labor Party, Mexican Green Ecological Party, Citizen’s Movement, New Alliance Party, National Regeneration Movement, and the Social Encounter Party. The most significant and powerful political parties in Mexico are the National Action Party, the Party of the Democratic Revolution, and the Institutional Revolutionary Party which held power uninterruptedly in Mexico for 71 years. The National Action Party focuses mainly on advocating for free enterprise, Pragmatism, Small government, Privatization and Libertarianism reforms. The Party of the Democratic Revolution focuses mainly on any issues in Mexico regarding economic and social inequalities. Lastly, the Institutional Revolutionary Party focuses on gaining more centralization of

Organized crime is a serious threat to the state and civil society (though boundaries have been blurred between cartels and police/military)

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.

Mexico’s political party that is most dominated the country’s political institutions when it was found back in 1929 and then eventually ended towards the end of the 20th century. Nearly all important symbol in Mexican nation and local policies belonged to the political party system, as a result of the recommendation of the participants that public offices have always been commensurated during this time period. During India’s return to the political party system they needed to declare their party.

The form of government in Mexico is a Federal Republic (a mixture of US constitutional theory and civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts) just as the United States, Mexico has their forms of the Executive, Legislative and a Judicial branches. The Executive branch is the elected president and his appointed cabinet of 18. The Presidency in Mexico is a six-year term, and they are not allowed to run for re-election. The Legislative branch is a bicameral legislature which consist of: National Congress or Congreso de la Union consists of the Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 members are elected by popular vote for a six-year term, 32 seats are allocated on the basis of each party 's popular vote) and the Federal Chamber of Deputies or Camara Federal de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members are elected by popular vote; the other 200 members are allocated on the basis of