Mexico the center of one of the world's most refined drug networks. Today, Mexico is the main provider of heroin to the U.S. market, and the major overseas dealer of methamphetamine and marijuana. Officials approximate that the drug trade makes up 3 to 4 percent of Mexico's $1.2 trillion annual GDP, making as much as $30 billion, and offers employment to about half a million people. Mexico's drug cartels have fought and at times made peace with each other over the years. . The biggest drug cartels
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Mexico is immersed in a war in which rival cartels, fight against each other for power and control of the drug trade. Over the last four years the violence has escalated in the three northern states of Chilhuahua, Tamaulipas and Sinalo. The United States needs to step in and help fix the problems. Tons of people are killed every day because of the drug wars that are happening just across our border. America and Mexico need to come together to stop the three majors contributors to the war; gun smuggling
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Mexico’s Drug War 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
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waters by a drug cartel, Just after this incident a Mexican investigator who was searching for this man’s body was found beheaded and was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase. These are just a few of the known violent acts carried out by drug cartels recently. The Mexican drug war has been going on since 2006 but recently has been given more publicity. What is the history behind the drug war, the drug cartels, and what is the US is doing to protect its citizens from this war. It is important
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Simon Waltzer Intro to Speech Communication 11/28/2010 Mexican Drug Wars In the early part of 2003 I went to the state of Michoacán in Mexico to visit my grandparents, because it had been since 1994 since I was last there. It was an incredible experience for me to once again see my family who many of them I’ve never met before. Never did I know that this might have been the last time that I would go visit them, no not because I didn’t want to but because of the circumstances surrounding the
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Introduction: Drug trafficking is one of the most serious issues the world faces, drug trafficking is so popular because it can be very profitable for violent and illegal organizations called cartels. There has been a serious war in Mexico against drug trafficking organizations for more than a decade with little success. Over the last ten years, the US government has helped with more than $2 billion dollars in financing intelligence resources to help Mexico's anti-drug traffick efforts, and even
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The international drug trade from Latin American states is having an impact on a global scale. The trafficking of drugs along with corruptness and murder is an international conflict that is being fought daily. There are many aspects of the drug war from Mexico and other Latin American states which have effects on United States policy as well as policies from other countries that participate in the global suppression of illegal drugs. It can be hard to differentiate between conflict and issue
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Economic development in Latin America 2/11/2013 Drugs cartels in Mexico are hurting the economy of the country bringing down tourism as a big financial factor for Mexican economy. In 2006 president Felipe Calderon began military actions against cartels and since then in 2012 47,515 people were reported killed in drug related violence. (Gonzalez) With that kind of statistics people do not want to visit Mexico. Such a beautiful country with a lot of history is occupied with corruption
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of United States Drug Policy on Mexico and Colombia Drugs are not new to this Earth. Mankind has grown and consumed drugs for millennia. Marijuana, or more appropriately Cannabis, is indigenous to Central and South Asia, and has been consumed widely since 3000 B.C.E. (ElSohly 8). In more recent times (1938), Albert Hoffman synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide, more commonly known as LSD, while searching for treatments for psychiatric diseases (Hoffman). Initially, many drugs were used in religious/spiritual
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living in the young country know as Mexico. It all dated back to the Spanish Conquest when the Spanish, led by Hernando Cortez, enslaved most of Latin America. The notorious Mexican Drug Cartel’s didn’t one day decide to take over the failing country. It was a series of events that led up to the downfall of the government and the rise of a new age. That new age still exists today and is growing every second. The Cartel’s gained their power during the Cold War when Mexico’s government was focused
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