In an overview of this week’s readings the central focus of material was primarily centered around the illicit network that has emerged in Mexico as a direct result of political corruption and economic benefits for drug traffickers using the U.S market. The “War of Drugs” has ‘failed’ claims Eduardo Porter, acknowledgment of the growing drug problem doesn’t seem to be the problem instead Porter explains the thought of “eradicating the illegal drug market” (Porter) as an impossible task. Instead focus should be on a broader public health issue; communities on both sides of the border are victim to the horrors of the dangerous drug market. Fifty-thousand lives later the political success of the “War on Drugs” in the U.S was clear, people didn’t
