Mexican War of Independence

blog post My blog post is about El Chapo. El Chapo is one of the top dangerous criminals. El chapo is a big narco drug dealer. He was born April 4, 1957. He uses his drug money to help out poor people from mexico. El Chapo is very dangerous person person but he helps out poor people in Mexico. El Chapo is person you wouldn't want to have problems with him. He only murders people that are in other cartels. He wants to be the person who has a cartel because he wants to receive…

On July 2, 2007, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a drug lord and the most wanted man in Mexico, reportedly married a woman from La Angostura, Durango, in a public ceremony. Though already married twice, Guzmán fell in love with eighteen-year-old Emma Coronel—described by a reporter as being white skinned and having a well-formed body—who had recently been named queen of the 2007 Coffee and Guava Fair (Dávila 2007b, 7). Emma had met Chapo at a village dance. Before he arrived at the wedding, a small…

for forced labor and sexual exploitation within the country and in the united states. The increasing participation of the drug cartels in human trafficking is facilitated not only by their vast resources and capital but also by corruption in the Mexican government, lack of laws to prevent such illegal activities and the lack of adequate mechanisms that can be used to cab these activities. Before 2007, Mexico had not formulated any anti-trafficking laws to prevent such activities in the country;…

a border wall be in preventing drug-trafficking through the southern border? In order to understand how effective the wall would be in preventing drug-trafficking we must first understand how drug-trafficking works along the southern border. “The Mexican drug cartels make an estimated 19 - 29 billion dollars of revenue every year off of US drug sales” (The Recovery Village). The amount…

was president for those 6 years. However, fortunately, the numbers have slightly decreased since the current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, took the presidential position.3 Aside from this decline, in history there have been seven different major Mexican cartels who have taken over the country, and they are the ones to cause such unfortunate deaths. Many of the cartels have vanished or combined during the years, and I will give brief information on these. There are the Beltran…

complexities of human morality, director Denis Villeneuve executes a pragmatic and newfangled drug thriller that evokes the masterpiece, Traffic. Villeneuve’s 2015 film, Sicario, portrays how the United States contends with the escalating war on drugs against Mexican, and in particular, Sonoran, cartels. The film endorses positive and negative archetypes of Spanish-speaking individuals. Additionally, Villeneuve utilizes cinematic tools such as color and light along with the language of sexual…

The leading events that occurred in 1846 were continuous held controversy with the United States and Mexico. Going to war differentiated between the people, but in the end a great deal of people paid the price for going to war; Mexico was described as a prize to the United States. There were significant events that led up to the rivalry between the U.S. and Mexico. There was the annexation of Texas that started the controversy with Mexico’s government. The river that divided Texas and the U.S.…

before would touch this issue because it would upset the slave state/free state balance between North and South and risked war with Mexico. But shortly before leaving office President Tyler managed to get the joint resolution passed on March 1, 1845. Texas was admitted to…

United States launched the Merida Initiative, which provides the Mexican government with US security forces along with high-end military equipment, ranging from helicopters to surveillance technology (Quinones, 2009; 18). However, even with aid provided by the US, the cartels still outgunned the Mexican Army—a response to Calderon’s war with extreme savagery. “The problem isn’t individuals; it’s systematic” (Quinones, 2009; 18). The Mexican government failed in its…

accomplishments, the United States has taken part in, the Mexican-American War was a very defining event. However, with the United States expanding in the newly acquired territory from Mexico, there soon came conflict with establishing north and south boundary lines and the expansion of slavery. Several men had stated controversial compromise bills, held congressional debates, and the Compromise a 1850 quickly flourished. The Mexican-American War was a huge gain for the United States with all…