Like mentioned, drug organizations have been around for decades, and there’s been much more violence since then in Mexico. Unfortunately, between 2006 and 2012, there happened to be over 60,000 killed due to drug-related violence when former President, Felipe Calderon, was president for those 6 years. However, fortunately, the numbers have slightly decreased since the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, took the presidential position.3 Aside from this decline, in history there have been seven different major Mexican cartels who have taken over the country, and they are the ones to cause such unfortunate deaths. Many of the cartels have vanished or combined during the years, and I will give brief information on these. There are the Beltran
