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    Crime is a major issue in the world, especially today, due to the economic state that the world lies in. Crime in the Country of Mexico entails drug trafficking, murder, Cartels, Law Enforcement Corruption, and violence against journalist and women. Mexican cities such as Juarez face some of the worst crime in the world and an unreal amount of drug distribution. Since the 1980’s, the often violent and dangerous drug trafficking world has moved from Venezuela to Mexico. With that said, Mexico…

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    Going To War With Mexico

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    United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico. The United States did not have any type of real justification to answer back with violence against the Mexicans. The war with Mexico was a result of the United States’ idea of manifest destiny. Polk’s thirst to take hold of new territory from the Mexicans and defeat over their refusal to give America California also might have played a roll in his eagerness to start a war against the Mexicans. The United States under the command of…

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    Essay On Drug Cartels

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    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…

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    man is cheaper than people aspect, and that the violence in mexico had escalate due to Felipe Calderón announcing “a war on drug-trafficking.” This information is important because shows that people are not only killed they share also been kidnapped. It shows that killing a man is very cheap in Mexico. It also learned that the violence has gone up due to the announcement of a war on drug trafficking in Mexico. If this had not happened the violence would have stayed down or lower than it is now.…

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    Unjustified War If you started a fight for no apparent reason, are you justified to continue fighting? The Mexican- American War was a brutal war that started in 1836 and killed thousands of people on both, the American and Mexican, sides. The question often asked about this war is “Was America’s reason to go to war with Mexico valid?” According to me, the United States did not have a substantial reason to go to war with Mexico because of multiple reasons. First off, Texans did not follow…

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    escaped prison numerous times and has murdered countless men. In the new article written by Nick Allen and published by The telegraph News shows that El Chapo, a drug cartel leader, has murdered another man. However, the man murdered workes for the Mexican Government as a judge. Judge Vicente Bermudez was only 39 when a gunman, who people believe was working for El Chapo, shot him in the back of the head as he was going for a jog outside his home in Metepec, Mexico. Furthermore, the reason for…

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    Drug Cartel Research Paper

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    in 2008 a piece of the Sinaloa cartel broke off into the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO) and started to wage war with it’s father cartel. Also, in 2014, Chapo Guzman, a multibillion dollar architect and criminal business visionary was arrested in Mazatlan. Despite these major setbacks, Sinaloa made new alliances and expanded even further. The Sinaloa are now active in seventeen Mexican states and throughout parts of the United States. They also have connections all the way in Australia. It is…

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    immigrants entering the country than the opium that they smoked. Anti-cocaine and marijuana laws followed in the 1900s, this time targeting African Americans (“A brief history of the Drug War”). Then, in 1971, Nixon decided to take drugs on as a whole. He formed the DEA to help combat the drug problem, asking…

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    The country of Mexico is not what it used to be. Mexico has become one of the highest money making countries. Not because of factory jobs, but because of the cartels and their way of moving money. In past years there would be millions of tourists going on a daily basis. Now not so many people go, because of all of the crime that has surrounded Mexico. This country is best known for its criminals and all of the cartels. The cartels have taken over Mexico terrorizing the people that live there and…

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    Have you ever heard the saying, “wrong place, wrong time,” or maybe that life is about “being at the right place at the right time”? Or have you ever heard about the cartels and their crimes down in Mexico? Murders, kidnapping, drug trafficking, and lots of partying goes on every day by every cartel and by every drug lord south of the border. Unfortunately, these two topics have much in common in Mexico. Civilians that do not have anything to do with the cartels get caught up in these kind of…

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