Drug cartel

The genesis of all drug cartels in Mexico trace to a Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo also known as "The Godfather". He was the founder of the “Guadalajara Cartel”, which controlled all illegal drug trade in and around Mexico’s border in 1980. Since 2006, the Mexican military have intervened with a goal of stopping all drug-related violence consisting inside Mexico’s borders, leaving drug trafficking a problem to the United States. The ongoing fight against drug cartels has been hampered by rampant corruption among local and federal police and politicians, some of whom have actively worked with cartels for their own benefit.₁ Recently, Mexico’s continuation of drug trafficking to the United States has been increasing drug use for minors and has caused more violence. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 20 million Americans aged 12 or older used an illegal drug in the past 30 days.₂ As the United States of America is the world 's largest consumer of cocaine, as well as of other illegal drugs,their demand is what motivates the drug business, and the main goal of Mexican Drug Cartels is to introduce narcotics into the US.₃ It has been estimated by analysts that anywhere from $13.6 billion to $49.4 billion is being earned by Mexico’s drug trade annually. One of the biggest problems for Mexico has been its ineffective…

A drug cartel is a criminal organization developed with the purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. Up until the early 1900s, the use of opium, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol were legal in the United States and could be purchased at pharmacies and stores. “Chinese merchants brought opium to Sinaloa back in the late 1800’s...and since then, Sinaloa has been…

2006) reported that he U.S president Richard Nixon confirmed ‘war on drugs’ on Mexican drug cartels however, ‘the supply and use of drugs has not changed in any fundamental way’. A Mexican official spent years combating drug trafficking he stated that ‘This war is not winnable’ (The Wall Street Journal, 26th December 2009). Various economic factors contribute towards the continuing existence of the MCs. Drug trafficking is a global illicit trades that includes, agriculture, manufactures,…

With drug use on the rise in America, the drug cartels have become more powerful than can be controlled by Mexican authorities or U.S border patrol. Just like in No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. We need to put more effort into controlling the trade. Many people in Mexico have a hard time living in their country due poverty. According to the Japan Times the Mexican poverty rate hit 46.2% last year. The poverty line isn’t as high as you think it is. The Japan Times defines poverty as…

United States must take action against Mexican drug cartels, the solution must come from Mexico because the U.S has to ensure its own safety, Mexico has to regain stability, and the heart of drug trafficking operations is the land of Mexico. Mexico has become the focus of a great deal of attention in the United States in the early twenty-first century, primarily due to two major issues. One concern is the issue of illegal immigration and the building of a fence from Texas to California to limit…

directly tied to the Mexican political system (Navarro & Vivas, 2012). Drug cartels start off by taking over small and local businesses, then progress to larger ones, and eventually having some sort of power or influence over high-ranking and government officials. Cartels contribute to local and regional political campaigns, bribe officials, and much more to assure the need to extract favors and permissions from the officeholders…

presentation, Christian and I decided to research the Drug War and cartels in Mexico and the United States. In our presentation, we each talked about different subjects regarding the cartels. Christian first talked about the history of the corrido music, and I later spoke about a specific drug cartel named Los Zetas. In this paper, I will be talking about how The Zetas have negatively affected not only Mexico but the United States as well. While I was researching for information, I didn’t know…

A drug is a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. A cartel is an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition. A drug cartel is any criminal organization developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized…

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…

organizational structure of the Sinola Federation and Zeta drug cartels. The drug kingpins governor these illegal business in the same manner as fortune five hundred companies, strategically managing these outlawed business as legal corporations. The Cartels define strategic choices which gives their organizations direction guided by strategy. Furthermore, they closely resemble the Porter’s five Framework, organizing themselves effectively in a cut throat market yielding $320 billion a year…