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    Mexican Drug Cartels: Why are they so horrible? Drug Cartels are organizations of people of different backgrounds who manufacture drugs and join forces to beat any competition when selling their products, which consist of marijuana, cocaine, and stolen oil and other drugs (Ioan). They’ll stop at nothing to beat their competition, that means even if they have to kill or claim the lives of the innocent to get their way. They are mainly established in Mexico because of the corruptness of the country

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    United States Drug War

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    Mexico vs. United States drug war for many years the U.S has blamed Mexico for its violence, and much of the violence coming into the United States. Americans tend to blame Mexico and everyone else for its violence when most of the time they are the ones to blame. As a matter of fact, they are people who tend to believe the drug war in Mexico all started because of the United States. Mexican president Miguel Aleman said once too united states president the U.S is just as much to blame as Mexico the

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    currently having a long and hard battle against the raging and harmful issues that threatens to destroy humanity. Drug trafficking has become the king of these issues, with the other issues slowly branching off as subjects to serve their king. Currently, Mexican drug cartels dominate the wholesale illicit drug market, earning $13.4 to $49.4 billion annually. Since this investment is extremely large, it has become an exhausting challenge to try to destroy the drug trafficking as it threatens to hurt innocents

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    critical threat against the sovereignty and weakening of the Mexican governmental institutions on the state, local and national levels. Profits from drugs are so huge in Mexico, an estimated 60 billion dollars a year, that these

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    Drug War

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    America’s Ineffective Approach to Drugs Introduction 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

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    Gangs and ‘clubs’ are very territorial “and resist the incursion of other [gangs] in their defined territories.” Furthermore, territorial wars are frequent due to the disputes over who has sovereignty over particular territory. (Barker & Human, 2009). These ideas seem to defend the argument that the emergence of neomedieval systems of returning to the middle ages with occurrence of overlapping

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    how they consider it an entertainment. The article “Killing for Kudos – the brutal face of Mexico’s 21st Century war” by Ed Vulliamy reports the violence, massacres

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    about the country that I found a little unusual. Most of the things i say, eat, or even seen have originated from Mexican culture. When I started this paper i didn’t think I would find anything interesting about Mexico. I Found out

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    Mexico

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    War on Drugs in Mexico In Monterrey, Mexico lives Sister Consuela Martinez, a nun, and one of the few people not afraid to speak up against the violence caused by the drug cartels. Fourteen years ago, she came home to find cats on her front porch, all with slit throats, and a little message saying that she would be next. But surprisingly, she is still well and alive today. Most people who speak against the cartels do not live long. When issues are brought to public eye, cartels tend to lose profit

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    The war on drugs has been all over the world for the past several decades, country to country and region to region. When you really think about it each and every place at one point in time has had the trouble of facing the many negatives that come along with drugs such as people becoming addicts, violence, and crime in general, drug lords, and a plethora of other problems. Handling these problems before they get out of hand are relatively important, because if not handled right the country, region

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