With drug use on the rise in America, the drug cartels have become more powerful than can be controlled by Mexican authorities or U.S border patrol. Just like in No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. We need to put more effort into controlling the trade.
Many people in Mexico have a hard time living in their country due poverty. According to the Japan Times the Mexican poverty rate hit 46.2% last year. The poverty line isn’t as high as you think it is. The Japan Times defines poverty as living on no more than 1,615 pesos ($99) a month. Therefore the rural farmers need extra income to become self sufficient, this is where drugs comes in. A farmer could earn about $900 a year from regular labor, but by growing opium poppy you could earn …show more content…
Cocaine is used billions of times every year in America.” It would be considerably harder for drug cartels to be able to make a profit from selling these drugs, if countless Americas are not addicted. At the same time Sheriff Bell ran in to the same problem in No Country for Old Men “Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It’s worse than that. How’s that? Schoolkids buy it.”(194 McCarthy) The desire for drugs is not just a 2015 problem, but it can be traced even back to the 1980’s. Americas are addicted to illegal …show more content…
June Beittel states that, in 2006, there were basically four dominant drug trafficking organizations: the Tijuana/Arellano-Felix organization, the Sinaloa cartel, the Juárez/Vicente Carillo Fuentes organization and the Gulf cartel, each one of the cartels wanting their own drug trafficking routes. There were minor squabbles until, the well-established Sinaloa DTO, with roots in western Mexico, fought brutally for increased control of routes through Chihuahua and Baja California with the goal of becoming the dominant cartel in the country. A bloody battle for control broke out in 2008 when the Tijuana/Arellano-Felix organization split into two factions. Other DTOs in the region took advantage of the situation attempted to assert control over the profitable Tijuana/Baja California San Diego/California border plaza, with Sinaloa DTO leading the attack. (Beittel) The cartels are very violent and will stop at nothing to receive what they
Many people in Mexico have a hard time living in their country due poverty. According to the Japan Times the Mexican poverty rate hit 46.2% last year. The poverty line isn’t as high as you think it is. The Japan Times defines poverty as living on no more than 1,615 pesos ($99) a month. Therefore the rural farmers need extra income to become self sufficient, this is where drugs comes in. A farmer could earn about $900 a year from regular labor, but by growing opium poppy you could earn …show more content…
Cocaine is used billions of times every year in America.” It would be considerably harder for drug cartels to be able to make a profit from selling these drugs, if countless Americas are not addicted. At the same time Sheriff Bell ran in to the same problem in No Country for Old Men “Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It’s worse than that. How’s that? Schoolkids buy it.”(194 McCarthy) The desire for drugs is not just a 2015 problem, but it can be traced even back to the 1980’s. Americas are addicted to illegal …show more content…
June Beittel states that, in 2006, there were basically four dominant drug trafficking organizations: the Tijuana/Arellano-Felix organization, the Sinaloa cartel, the Juárez/Vicente Carillo Fuentes organization and the Gulf cartel, each one of the cartels wanting their own drug trafficking routes. There were minor squabbles until, the well-established Sinaloa DTO, with roots in western Mexico, fought brutally for increased control of routes through Chihuahua and Baja California with the goal of becoming the dominant cartel in the country. A bloody battle for control broke out in 2008 when the Tijuana/Arellano-Felix organization split into two factions. Other DTOs in the region took advantage of the situation attempted to assert control over the profitable Tijuana/Baja California San Diego/California border plaza, with Sinaloa DTO leading the attack. (Beittel) The cartels are very violent and will stop at nothing to receive what they