A Flag in Disguise

It is estimated that around 60,000 people have deceased in the Mexican drug war since 2006-2012(CNN). This is due largely to the steady flow of illicit narcotics in to the United States, the cache of weapons and ammunition that the United States is supplying Mexico, as well as the corruption on both sides of the border. The Mexican Drug War initially began about 2006 during the Felipe Calderon administration, with a short, but gruesome history to include death, drugs, weapons, trafficking and corruption. Police corruption often categorized as any form of misconduct, inappropriate or illegal action resulting in goods or favors exchanged. The amount of money that is involved in drug trade embellishes the corruption making …show more content…
However, despite the federal government’s deployment of more than 10,000 federal police officers and upwards of 50,000 Mexican soldiers, the violence in the Mexican states has only increased, the total number of drug-related deaths numbering over 40,000 since 2006 (Sulivan). Culture of impunity and lawlessness pervades many Mexican communities, where drug cartels operate without hindrance from fearful and inadequate police forces, and without criticism from a censored media. Cartels have shown no mercy or regrets as they attempt to implement …show more content…
It was Gallardo Felix calling all the shots all while being protected by the politicians he had bribed. Things were going well when the Guadalajara Cartel suffered a hit to the organization. The co-founder Rafael Caro Quintero was convicted of murdering a DEA agent and sent to prison. Gallardo Felix rather than keeping “all of his eggs in one basket” sort of speak decided to make changes within the organization. Instead of having one large organization in Mexico, he decided it would be best if the cartels operated in sections or “plazas” He then reunited many of the men he thought would be fit as crime bosses with in a geographical area and united them in a luxurious property in a well=known beautiful beach in Cancun, Mexico. His thought was that if the Mexican government would try to bring the criminal organization down it would be more difficult to take down several geographical cartels rather than one large Mexican