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George F. Kennan talks about one of the principal architects of United States foreign policy during the period following the end of the Second World War. He talks about laws, police, and underground movements for drug cartel. How is it that the drug cartel is still able to move drugs across the border? The power struggle in present-day Mexico between major rival cartel groups and the Mexican government has evaded the appropriate amount of media and government concern. 66% of all medications that come into the United States traverse the Mexican border. Indeed, even with all the security set up on the fringe, drugs keep on flowing into this nation at a disturbing rate. This is because of numerous reasons that all come from how beneficial

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