Murder Capital Of The World

There are seven drug cartels in Mexico (CRS 1). The most important cartels are Sinaloa and Juarez. The Sinaloa cartel operates in the states of Nayarit, Sinaloa and Mexico State (Reforma 1). The Juarez cartel operates in Sinaloa, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Morelos; and Quintana Roo. Mexican cartels employ individuals and groups of enforcers, known as sicarios. Statistics show that more than twenty people are killed daily in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua in crimes related to drugs. Drug lords send their gunmen to strategic places where innocent people that are in the wrong place at the wrong time are killed. Narco Lords like Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Joaquin el Chapo Guzman, fight among themselves for the

“Organized crime had coopted practically all policing and spaces for the administration of justice” States Maldonado Aranda in Stories of Drugs in rural Mexico. The impact on the community is addiction rates are rising and rapes as well. AA groups have been taken over by the Cartel to help support themselves by recruitment for gunmen, also financially. (Maldonado Aranda, 2014) Young women are dragged by their own peers, then raped, again withthe silent violence they don’t have the agency to speak up about it. Who has stepped up to help is Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde, the founder of Autodefensas. Autodefensas is a militia in Mexico who fights the Knights of Templar Cartel in Michoacan.(Manzo, 2015) Dr. Valverde wanted to arm the citizens in small cities in Michoacan against the Cartels, I couldn't agree more. To find the perfect solution to helping the people, it’s needed to have field work completed then applied anthropology. I believe arming the citizens will give them more protection in day to day life. Arming the people can give them agency to start a civil war against the corrupt government controlled by the Cartel. I also believe the US government should get involved and have the freedom to expedite the Cartel leaders and gunmen to the states.I don’t think removing immigrants from their homes to the states will be effective. Removing the Cartels will let the people of

December 2008 marks the initial start to the devastating and gruesome cartel drug war in Mexico that has led to the deaths of over 80,000 people. In the midst of this war, violence has surged dramatically in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an area seen by many as a point of contention in the lucrative drug smuggling business that stems from Mexico and flows into the United States. As a result of the recent outbreak of violence, it has been difficult to accept the fact that my mother and sister cross the border every weekend from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez to go visit family knowing they are at risk of being taken hostage or even worse, getting killed by the cartel. My father has also experienced these life-threatening occurrences

An author, Francisco E. Gonzalez, discussed one incident that took place, “A grenade attack on September 15, 2008, left eight dead and more than one hundred injured on the central square in Morelia (the capital of the state of Michoacán), on a night Mexicans were celebrating the 198th anniversary of their country’s independence.” (Gonzalez 72). This incident shows that safety is never guaranteed with the cartel’s violent and erratic behavior.

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 report by the group of narcotics control that govern the democrat and republican party, Grassley also criticized the environment in Mexico that favors the activity of criminal organizations. “In spite of endeavors to build aversion and treatment programs, the united states remains the largest consumer of illegal drugs on the planet,” said the study. He clarified that in the country they are 22.6 million registered older consumers in the range of 12 years in the study made in 2010, representing 8.9 percent of the US population. The report, entitled “Responding to violence in Mexico,” Guatemala and Honduras were other countries who have also harshly been affected by drug trafficking organizations because of the high consumption of drugs in the united states said the study. The report highlighted the high rate of homicides in Mexico the last year, which averaged 77 murders per 100,000 people in the year 2010. This was a well written report showing the reason people have come to the conclusion that the main reason to the drug war and the one to blame is actually not Mexico but the united states. Another of the main reasons of the drug war in Mexico are the weapons brought from the united states to Mexico. After a decade of decline in the national homicide rate, Mexico today suffers an epidemic of gun violence. At least 120,000 people have been shot dead since 2006. Most of these murders are not committed with assault rifles, but rather pistols and revolvers. Many are perpetrated by gunmen linked to narco cartels, but also in clashes with soldiers and police. Most importantly, most of the weapons that cause chaos on the streets of Mexico are manufactured in the united states. Curiously, despite its destructive power, no one seems to know exactly how many firearms are in circulation in the

As Americans, we seem to embrace love for Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, and Mexican films. However, we haven't really focused, and don't seem to much care about, the innocent victims killed every day in Mexico. Just in the past few years. 80,000 people were murdered directly by the Mexican Drug War. An ongoing low-intensity asymmetric war between the Mexican Government and various drug trafficking syndicates. Since 2006, when intervention with the Mexican military began, the government's principal goal has been to put down the drug-related violence. Additionally, the Mexican government has claimed that their primary focus is on dismantling the powerful drug cartels, rather than on preventing drug trafficking. One very brave journalist Anabel Hernandez, has uncovered exactly how deep the rot of corruption and dirty money has penetrated into every level of Mexican institutions. She is the author of the ground-breaking expose “Los Senored Del Narco”. Every day she lives under guard in a secret location, the threat

A report from the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute [PDF] details the challenges of calculating the toll of Mexico's drug violence, and analyzes shifting patterns in the country's organized crime.

The violence that Mexican drug cartels impose has led to thousands of deaths and that is why it is the number one reason they are dangerous. a) According to the an article written in 2014 by Brianna Lee, called Mexico’s Drug War, from 2006 to 2012 there were around 120,000 total homicides and 26,000 people are still reported as missing. i. These homicides include deaths in standoffs between rival cartels and the Mexican military, bystanders, police and government officials. ii.

They argue that the increase can be related to drug trafficking. They explain that illegal activities are usually associated with violence because members of organized illegal enterprises can’t seek legal means of dealing with violations of business agreements and must resort to violence as a way to resolve conflicts. The authors acknowledge several limitations in gathering data on violence related to drug crimes. For example, most data sets don’t cover exactly the same period of time, they vary in the geographic level of data aggregation, and some report at national levels while others report at the state level. However, characteristics such as the use of certain types of weapons and tactics, extreme forms of violence like torture or decapitation, overt messages to authorities and rivals. and intentional public evidence of their violence are usually a way of distinguishing a homicide as being associated with drug trafficking organizations. The authors use various secondary sources and figures to support their argument that violence has increased dramatically in Mexico. They also point out changes in distribution and quality of violence that suggest a relationship to drug trafficking. For example, they found that the highest rates of homicide were concentrated in areas associated with production or transit of

Critics outside and inside of Mexico who are witness to the casualties of the Mexican War on Drugs are keen to blame Felipe Calderon’s administration (the Mexican government) for the escalation of conflict within the country starting in 2006; arguing that the fast militarization and the lack of the state’s strength augmented such conflict. In the article “Did the Military Interventions in the Mexican Drug War Increased Violence?” by Valeria Espinosa and Donald B Rubin; the statistics analysts, studied two articles from a leading Mexican magazine Nexos, both with the same conclusion, “that military interventions had increased homicide rates in those states where intervention took place” (Espinosa and Rubin, 17). The results, although it was

May, June, and July were the most violent months with May having 38, June 38, and July 51. Officers began to station checkpoints for guns and drugs. But cartels sparked by going to stores and businesses asking for “cuota”. Cuota is when the store or business having to pay cartel members money or they die. Police did not stop cartel members from doing their jobs they went on and continued working. As the end of 2016 approached it was only 300 less than 2010. Most killings are between cartels not towards the people of juarez. Police and Municipal are coordinating so they can work together but they do not know who they can trust. But with the violence staying between the cartels, Americans are safe. Juarez report the victims in 2016 about 10% were women. Juarez is not as bad as it seems but the cartels battle to the death for

Cities on both sides of the Mexican-American border are continuously terrorized by drug cartels as a way to keep control over shipping routes and silence from citizens. (Wilkinson 2008) In 2010 an employee of the United States Embassy in Mexico was murdered along the Mexico-American border. This added tension to the ongoing drug trafficking problem and raised the issue of Mexico’s inability to control its own borders. Felipe Calderon, the President of Mexico, stated that he is seeking a stronger relationship with the United States. The effects of this relationship can be seen on the streets with the intensified level of violence against the drug cartels and the effectiveness of the government. (Dresser 2009)

The first presenter began by explaining that while organized crime has been problematic for some time, the number of organized crime related deaths/murders has been on a steady rise. As the presenter further illustrates, in 2001, it was around 1,000. By 2008, the number had its first big jump, however, in 2010, the number had skyrocketed to over 34,000! However, the death, or capture of cartel leaders is not the solution and has led to two large cycles of violence. Most of the crime can be broken down into seven basic conflicts, as illustrated in a chart. 1. The Pacifico Cartel vs. Tijuana cartel which is is located in Baja, California. 2. The Pacifico Cartel vs. Juarez Cartel, which affects the areas of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango. 3. The Pacifico Cartel vs Beltran Leyva Organization located in Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Durango. 4. Jalisco Cartel Vs Nueva Generacion, located in Coloma and Jalisco. 5. Cartel pacific Sur vs “La Barbie” cartel, which is distributed through Districto Federal, Estato De Mexico, Guerro and Morelos. 6. Golfo Cartel Vs Zetas, located in Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. And finally, 7. La Famllia Michoacána vs Zetas, which is located in Guanajuato, Estato De Mexico and Michoacán.

Crime, death, and destruction in Latin America is a big issue that’s spreading around the whole world. It’s becoming a worldwide problem and it needs to be fixed. Trafficking drugs to other countries and what not, are the main cause of crime, death and destruction of property in Latin America. “According to police data, these countries collectively saw 17,422 murders in 2015, 11% more than in 2014. However, there are signs the security challenges are changing, both in Northern Triangle and across Central America as a whole.” This shows that murders are occurring more often than they should. El Salvador is increased in murders between 2014-15 and its one of the highest in the world. The