Mexican Drug Crisis Essay

The drug cartels have engaged in wrongful acts intended to instill fear, promote corruption, and subvert democratic governance by undercutting confidence in government. Over the past centuries, Mexico has come into the power of other countries like the Spanish and the French rule until they were thrown out in 1867 (Knowles, 2008, p.74). That power would eventually pass to a political party called the PRI that stabilize Mexico during the last decades, but it would then go downhill from there because it started to become an autocratic oligarchy. This basically means that a small group of people have the absolute control over the country. Therefore, Mexico’s affluent people would use the institutions of government to their advantage to merge power and wealth into their own hands. While the rest of the Mexican majority struggle in poverty by serving the PRI. This was one of the main reasons why the poorly paid police began accepting bribery and committing corruption to supplement their incomes.
While the legitimacy of the PRI in the …show more content…
This created a source of labor and wealth for Mexico the only country in Latin America that produces opium. During the 1960s, the prices of marijuana and heroin went up and the profits were quickly double. Neighboring Sinaloa states copied this form of method. Several families became powerless after 1982 when Miguel Felix Gallardo created the Guadalajara cartel, an organization inspired by the Medellin cartel. The Medellin cartel modus operandi was to connect some of these families to control the production and distribution of heroin and marijuana within the US (Pacheco, 2009, p.1026). This lead to a pact of non-aggression signed by the Juarez, Tijuana, and Sinaloa-Sonora cartels in 1998 resulting in a narco-federation alliance that operates between Mexico and US (Ibid,