Mexican War of Independence

Since 2006, the intrastate Mexican Drug War has been an international example of continued policy failure. The complex conflict includes various actors, all of which play a different but important role. There are seven main drug cartels: Beltran-Leyva, Gulf, Juarez, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and Tijuana/Arellano Felix. Each cartel maintains its own territory, and some areas are disputed among cartels. For example, Los Zetas controls the Central North and some of the Southeast…

The Zetas distinguished themselves both as international narcotics traffickers and highly competent executioners (Mexico Gulf Reporter), they thrive on torture, dropping enemies into barrels of acid, beheadings, castrations, and the dismemberment of victims before they die. A former deputy attorney general, then in charge of Mexico's Office for Organized Crime Special Investigation, said Yucatán state and half of Mexico belonged to the Zetas. Their professional trademarks include decapitations…

Polk’s Call for War In 1846, Congress received a message from President James K. Polk that discussed the difficult relations between the United States and Mexico and urged Congress to declare war against Mexico. He informed Congress of a recent massacre of American soldiers in an area that was believed to be owned by the United States, which convinced Congress to draft a declaration of war against Mexico. Even though American soldiers did perish at the hand of Mexican soldiers, I do not…

children of Sinaloa, El Chapo started contributing to the family business from an early age, bringing lunch to his older relatives while they worked the poppy fields.Saviano cites that one kilo of opium gum, processed from the poppies, was worth 8,000 Mexican pesos,…

Should the United States was justified in going to war with Mexico? Personally i think that the United States was justified in going to war with Mexico. The Mexican American war started on, May,9th,1846. The war took place in Mexico very close to the border near the Rio Grande. The war started because the Mexicans started the war when they shot at American soldiers on American soil. One reason I believe that America was justified in going to war with Mexico was was that America wanted…

The largest drug trade organizations (DOTs) within the Western hemisphere stem from Mexico and Colombia, and the largest market for drugs is within the United States. In their recent observations, the United Nations (UN) have estimated that the total retail sales of illicit drugs to be around $320 billion or 0.9 percent of GDP. More specifically, the UN states that the Americas is home to $150 billion—under half of the global total—drug revenue. Additionally, the UN states that the United States…

has become under scrutiny, then Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump announcement that he was going to build a wall along the southern boundary of Mexico and the U.S. to protect Americans from "Some bad Hombres"(Cummings). It's no secret that the Mexican drug cartels are conducting drug and human trafficking into the U.S. via tunnels from one border town into another and in some instances has been known to attempt to bring these items and persons though US Border Patrol controlled entry point.…

Frankly speaking, this article really surprises me because I have never known that Honduras is the most murderous country in the world. In my opinion, gangsters and criminals are practically present everywhere on the globe including some developed countries such as America, Germany, Italy, etc. To me, however, the roots of the problem base on three basic things: what and how the local government does in order to control it, the living standards of the people in a country, and the interference of…

known as ‘Tumbe’ and the individuals who perform it are called ‘Tumbadores’ (InSightCrime). The Mexican cartels introduced knew gangs, the Zetas was one of them. The Zetas gang members were trained by ex-soldiers of Mexican Special Operation teams (Nicolás). The Zetas created conflict and tension between Cartels by splitting and creating deals with other Central American gangs. This brought on gang wars and instability within the Central American Society, leaving the government with no choice…

culture is a Mexican subculture that is built primarily of the drug cartels. There is almost a set code of conduct, or moral code that is associated with the lifestyle of Narcos. Some Mexican laws have forbidden the musical genre of Narcocorridos on the radio. Narcocorridos are songs that detail and glamorize the lifestyle of different Narcos. Furthermore, drug use (specifically marijuana and heroin) has increased. Ironically, the United States gets the majority of their drugs from Mexican…