Mexico Drugs And Violence Analysis

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

At first, Mexican drug cartels were structured just like family owned businesses. There would be a family member who was the main drug lord and cousins and uncles of the family would be the body guards and drug dealers. After the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost their power within the Mexican government the structure of drug cartels became much more complex. A hierarchical diffusion is seen within the drug cartel system because the drugs spread from one important drug lord to another, and we generally see this happening in the urban part of Mexico, more than in the rural areas. A corporate structure began forming as hierarchies began developing under drug lords and more people got involved. Professor Guillermo Trejo of Notre Dame 's Kellogg Institute claims that once the PRI lost their power there was a rapid increase in violence. This is because of Mexico’s former President, Felipe Calderón, who politically associates with the National Action Party (PAN). In 2006 President Calderón declared war on the drug cartels. This milestone triggered a huge change within Mexico’s international relations, government, and culture.

The Tijuana Cartel is now one of the cartels with the least power since the Arellano Felix brothers fell, but it is said that the Sinaloa’s have started taking them over.

Mexico has always been involved in illegal drug smuggling since the beginning. In the 1980’s Mexico started off aiding the Colombian organizations in smuggling cocaine into the U.S. Mexico continued to work for the Colombian organizations, and were paid in cash as well as percentages for some of the cocaine. The Organizations in Mexico soon became very independent, and powerful enough to begin their own organizations. Many new

According the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Sinaloa Cartel is the largest and most powerful drug trafficking syndicates in the world, is an alliance of some of Mexico’s top capos based in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. The state has long been recognized as major which involved in illegal drug industry as home to marijuana and poppy crops. (www.insightcrime.org) By the early 21st century the cartel had operations in more than 50 countries but was particularly dominant in the United States. (Tikkanen, 2016) The Sinaloa Cartel was responsible for the majority of illegal drugs notably marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines were smuggled from Mexico then the cartel remains the main controlling the most U.S states. In the mid 1990s,

Mexico has been the main foreign supplier of marijuana and methamphetamines to the U.S. Drug cartels have been illegally transporting an estimated 70 % of foreign narcotics such as cocaine, heroin, and other drugs into the United States and other countries but were not transporting in such violent methods as used today (Mexico Drug War,

Drug cartels appeared in Mexico during the time of the U.S. Prohibition when liquor was smuggled into the United States over the Rio Grande. When the U.S. Prohibition ended these cartels saw a drop in liquor profits so began to use marijuana as a new cheap and effective cash crop. Drugs really started to get going when the U.S. began to clamp down on drugs in the 1900’s (stratfor). And so many of the Mexican gangs that had smuggled other items started smuggling marijuana and other drugs across the U.S. border. Mexican cartels broadly effect Mexico culturally and socially but they mainly effect education, cause people to become desensitized, and create narcoculture.

The overall corruption in Mexico has led people to question if the highest levels of this country’s power are also linked to any drug activity. Rumblings started even more when billionaire drug lord, “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was able to escape from one of Mexico’s maximum security prisons. (BreitBart 2015)

By 1960 in Mexico, drugs such as Marijuana and Heroin were being produced and used throughout the country (Insight Crime). Moreover, these drugs were used and produced in Sinaloa state mostly along the western coast (Insight Crime). These drugs were then smuggled into the United States ending up in the Southwest regions. In the 1980’s, Mexico was under the leadership of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. During this time when Mexico was under his leadership, the drug cartel flourished (Insight Crime). Many years later it seems there were slight tensions between the United States and Mexico. The United States pressured Mexico to become more responsive to criminal activity. After the political pressure the US was putting on Mexico, some of the drug traffickers left and fled the country. Over the following years several Mexican leaders were arrested, and detained in different states inside of Mexico. In 1989, Mexican authorities caught Miguel,who was the leader of the Guadalajara cartel (Insight Crime). During the late 1980’s, there were three groups of drug cartels. The three groups were the Tijuana based clan, the Juarez clan, and the Sinolea based clan (Insight Crime). Since the year of 2002 the mexican government has been trying to prevent these crimes the best they can. The government has arrested and killed hundreds of drug traffickers and there has also been several anti-criminal

Economic and political factors over the last decades colluded to make Mexico a capital of drug cultivating and exporting country. A crucial factor that allow drug trade in Mexico is not only just merely grow and survive but to expand the involvement in the state. The large size of drug economy, plays in keeping the country financially solvent, and the temptation of freed and corruption of government officials confirms that prohibition could never be a success.

Mexico’s Transnational Criminal Organizations (MTCO) narcotic trade continues to be highly sophisticated, well organized, extremely violent, and remains a significant threat to United States national security. Chuck Rosenberg, the acting administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) describes the Mexican Cartels as the most significant criminal threat to the United States, and the principal suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, MDMA and marijuana, and to a lesser extent fentanyl (Lohmuller 2015). While Cartel activity in the United States is not new, the sophistication and unrivaled status of the Mexican Cartels in the United States drug market has long surpassed the Columbian Cartels, who dominated the U.S. drug arena

To begin, one major point to start with is there is more than one cartel. Fox news reports that there are somewhere between sixty and eighty small and medium cartels. Business Insider lists seven major cartels. They go as follows the Juarez cartel, The knights of Templar, The Gulf, the Tijuana Cartel, The Beltran Leyva Organization and the two most notorious the Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel. The Los Zetas are known for their cruelty. Murder, kidnapping, and torture are routine for them. They often use these tactics to intimidate the public. The Sinaloa cartel, is known for its money and power. They have monopolized drug trafficking in Chicago and the leader is so powerful he mysteriously escaped prison. Each cartel is different however they all have the basic goal to gain monetary assets.

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”

The War between the two major drug cartels in Mexico, Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, has exploded to new extremes and is now affecting multiple countries. There are multiple cartels in Mexico who control certain sections of the country, but all have aligned with one or the other of the two Goliaths. This war started over the drug routes stemming from southern Mexico to the United States of America. The Sinaloa Cartel has controlled these routes for many decades; however, with the up-rise of Los Zetas, the competition for the drug trafficking market has roared into a brutal war between the two. Now as the