Tijuana Cartel

the drug industry. Miguel distributed cocaine to different countries. His cartel was called El Cartel de Guadalajara. When Miguel was captured in 1989 everything changed. El cartel de Guadalajara was split up. The Arellano family, which they also worked for Miguel, moved to Tijuana and started their own cartel called El Cartel de Tijuana. El Chapo moved back to Sinaloa and started the popular cartel in mexico called El Cartel de…

The southern border separating the United States from Mexico is nothing more than a river to people that live and work in the area; imaginary lines that decide the fate of so many people. After the border came into existence, for many years life was as it had always been a constant ebb and flow of migratory workers. Before the morning of September 11, 2001, Americans understood the borders by the typical political sound bites on immigration. After that fateful day, The United States…

The principle conflict of the Gulf Cartel and immigrant populations throughout Tamaulipas is based on the tans-border identity that become increasingly prevalent for human trafficking. The identity of Mexican or Central American women is part of the underlying problem of border identity that has become exploited and commoditized by the Los Zetas cartel. This type of profiteering defies the national borders of Mexican sovereignty and the immigrant issues that define identity in these dire…

In todays world there are many catastrophes going on such as war, slavery, and genocide. In most of these cases humans are not being treated the way they are supposed to and many of them are being violated in such a way that it is considered immoral. People in these countries are constantly being denied their right to life, liberty, and security. There is constant threat to people living in these societies and their own government is struggling to cope with the situation. The only way to cease…

Granted that the qualities of a corrido were introduced, the examination of popular corridos in Latin America is necessary to fully grasp how they informed the public. An example of a corrido that did just that is “La Cucaracha,” which is a popular song known by the vast majority of both children and adults not only in Latin America, but in the US as well. It became especially popular when it was altered to reflect events of the Mexican revolution. In the revision “the lyrics were changed to…

Mexico’s Modern Problems In the early years of Mexico there were many problems. They had to become an independent nation, which took many brave lives and quite some time. Then Mexico had a dispute over land with the United States that resulted in a war. After that they had a financial problem that put an even larger gap between the rich and the poor. Mexico had to overcome all of this, then many years later they were a mostly civilized country. That leads into the next set of problems that…

One of the most outspread controversies besides president-elect, Donald Trump, was the legalizing marijuana in California. There are many debates about marijuana for a long time, California state already allowed medical marijuana until the measures 2016 voted “Yes” on proposition 64, “The California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, was on the November 8, 2016, ballotin California as an initiated state statute. Supporters referred to the initiative as the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. It was…

group in Guatemala left 60 dead. The Zetas rely on their paramilitary structure and the violence it presents rather than their roots in the community for their efficacy. By contrast, drug-trafficking groups such as the Sinaloa, La Familia, and Tijuana cartels attempt to integrate themselves socially, politically, and economically into a community, winning the hearts and minds, not imposing fear, of residents. Dudley attributes the vertical structure and strong-arm tactics of the Zetas as…

In the United States, tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death. Approximately 480,000 deaths result from the use of this drug annually. The most common tobacco related death occurs by smoking the substance, usually found in the form of cigarettes. The second occurs by merely being exposed to its second hand smoke (“Fast Facts”). The average NFL football stadium can be filled five times over by the people whose lives will be lost because of this drug. The third leading preventable…

home back in Tijuana. He adds that it is a shame back home when a Mexican migrates north into the United States. The novel revolves around the story of a 19-year-old Nayeli who works at a taco shop and is perturbed by the laxity among her people to develop their village (Kirkus Reviews 347). The people in her village have remained traditional and she cannot ignore the fact that modernization is crawling in fast enough to take advantage of the small village especially with the drug cartels and…