Mexico remains the main transit country for cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine destined for the United States (U.S. Department of State, 2016). The latter been its primary consumer. The drug trade in Mexico has not been a recent occurrence. This issue has been around about hundred years ago, when poppy was first cultivated and heroin produced in the state of Sinaloa which slowly began infecting neighboring states. Ever since then drug cartels have been battling between themselves to control the trade and routes, but narco-violence did not become a problem until after 2007 when president Felipe Calderón declare a War on Drugs. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze some issues presented at hand that the Mexican drug cartels
