Essay On Drug Cartels

The article explains how interconnected the drug cartels are to both America's and Mexico's economies. In fact, Mexican citizens prefer working drug-cartel jobs as informants or mules, rather than working legal jobs, because they make better money. On the higher end, businessmen and cartel bosses spend the illegal drug money on purchases in America. Thus, effectively pouring the money into the economies, despite the fact that the huge amounts of money profitted from selling illicit drugs is untaxed and unreported, which bypasses aiding some 80% of poverty-stricken citizens in America alone. In America, members of the drug cartel are heavily ingrained in politics, funding campaigns and promoting candidates so that somewhere down the line they can ask for favors regarding their illegal activity, that their "purchased" official will be obligated to oblige. Mexico's complaiance with America in the war-on-drugs helps to fuel the street prices of the drugs, the violence involved, and thus reinforces the long-held public opinion that drugs are bad. This ultimately secures the war-on-drugs mandate. If the war-on-drugs mandate were to be repealed, drug prices would drop significantly which would have severe impacts on the economies of Mexico and the US. While violence rates would also …show more content…
In fact, as is the case with Mexico in recent times, if high-profile arrests linked to the drug trade are made, the cartels retaliate by assassinating the leaders who attempted to enact justice against illegal activity. It seems as if progress with justice in relation to drug-related crimes is null since the cartels hold a "don't get involved if you know what's good for you" mentality, and have proven time and again that those that do get involved will meet an early