Mexican Drug War

There is a war going on currently south of our border. While we Americans continue to plunge ourselves in countless never ending conflicts, we are ignoring our own ongoing war next door. Mexico, our neighboring country to the south has been waging a war for years that has seemed to have gone unnoticed. This war is between the Mexican government and the cartels that seem to run the country. Just like the USA has people that support its politicians, the same thing happens in Mexico with the cartels. These politicians seems to be acting as puppets of the cartels that do anything to secure their own safety, even if that means shifting the control of power over to the cartels. The cartels have in return, turned Mexico into a crime ridden, and poor
The corrupt political system has allowed the group to control all the money going through the country. The cartels also traffic billions of dollars in drugs and weapons through Mexico, and cannot be disciplined for it because they rule the government (NY Times). Since the start of the drug war, the Mexican authorities have followed a kingpin strategy to stop the cartel. The strategy held that targeting the leadership of cartels would render the organizations ineffective, thereby limiting the group's danger. Unfortunately that tactic hasn't worked and the citizens are affected most. Thousands of Mexican citizens are killed every year in cartel related violence causing the people to fear the cartels who are essentially their leader. A group of people that fears its leader is not good, this fear is a reason why Mexico is one of the poorest countries in the world and has the third most murders in the
The initial groups involved in this war were an estimated 6,500 Mexican military officers and four of the main Mexican cartels in Mexico, the Beltran Leyva cartel, the Gulf cartel, the Juarez cartel, and the Tijuana cartel(Forbes). Since then, those involved in the war have expanded to more than 50,000 soldiers, an estimated 35,000 federal police officers and eight different major drug cartels who themselves make up more than 100,000 foot soldiers(forbes).People are dying at a rapid rate and there is no accountability for their deaths and their won’t be until the cartels are held accountable for their horrible crimes against the citizens of