USMEX WP 10-01 Drug Trafficking Organizations and Counter- Drug Strategies in the U.S.-Mexican Context Luis Astorga and David A. Shirk Mexico and the United States: Confronting the Twenty-First Century This working paper is part of a project seeking to provide an up-to-date assessment of key issues in the U.S.-Mexican relationship‚ identify points of convergence and diver- gence in respective national interests‚ and analyze likely consequences of potential policy approaches
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President Calderon’s government is currently fighting the drug problem of Mexico. In Calderon’s home in the state of Michoacan‚ the states of Jalisco‚ and Guerrero drug related violence has increased considerable. Life has changed for the worst in Mexico under the rising tsunami of drug violence. As early as October of 2007‚ the United States drug czar declared that the civil war in Mexico had greatly affected the drug trade in the United States. Cocaine distribution has risen up to 50 percent
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Mexican Modern War There are seven drug cartels in Mexico (CRS 1). The most important cartels are Sinaloa and Juarez. The Sinaloa cartel operates in the states of Nayarit‚ Sinaloa and Mexico State (Reforma 1). The Juarez cartel operates in Sinaloa‚ Nuevo León‚ Chihuahua‚ Jalisco‚ Morelos; and Quintana Roo. Mexican cartels employ individuals and groups of enforcers‚ known as sicarios. Statistics show that more than twenty people are killed daily in Ciudad Juarez‚ Chihuahua in crimes related
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For generations‚ Mexico has faced interminable drug violence as it has been the home of powerful drug cartels that generate violence with their illicit activities. The drug cartels have transformed Mexico into a producer of illegal drugs ‚and the proximity between Mexico and the United States has converted Mexico in the perfect and convenient transit route for the smuggling of illegal drugs to the United States. Over the last years‚ the violence that drug cartels generate in Mexico has increased in
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1. Introduction: Drugs are a major problem in our society. There are many people trying to stop it. Some techniques are imprisonment‚ school programs such as D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)‚ and parental guidance. This simply is not making the drug use go down. What we have been doing in the past is not working. The best possible solution for this epidemic is to legalize drugs. 2. Body: More than 20 million American’s over the age of 12 use illegal drugs. Over the past 40 years
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By Munoz Gomez‚ Rafael Purpose: To lead an appropriate analysis‚ understanding‚ comprehension; and find real solutions to the Mexican Cartels‚ and influences inside our borders; from a natural and objective point of view. Violence and drugs are problems severely connected with each other‚ during the last twenty years these two complex concerns have been increasing in the neighboring country‚ which is also our responsibility‚ and consequently affect the U.S. directly; while the U.S. Department
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Legalizing All Drugs Jose Vasquez DeVry University ENGL135 Advanced Composition Steve Budd June 7‚ 2011 Legalizing All Drugs Legalizing drugs has been a controversial topic to the American public. An issue such as this conjures up moral and religious beliefs‚ beliefs that differ from logical reasoning. Our government’s “War on Drugs” is being fought against her citizens‚ an effort to eliminate both drug distribution and usage. The government’s policies to eradicate drugs have failed only
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Drug addictions and overdose deaths are happening everyday in America. What happened to the War on Drugs? The news does not even consider drug related deaths newsworthy unless it is a famous person. Some examples are Heath Ledger‚ Whitney Houston‚ River Phoenix‚ Brittany Murphy‚ Amy Winehouse‚ and John Belushi just to name a few. People cry and excuse the fact they were on drugs‚ but the average person that dies from an overdose is overlooked and is shamed. The Center of Disease Control’s Rose Rudd
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Globalization and Drug Trafficking | Topic Description: Nations worldwide have been facing and losing the war on drugs for some time now. Innocent citizens are affected with the negative side effects due to drug trafficking such as violence resulting in death‚ lack of government assistance to halt the issue‚ and increase of crime rates. In this paper I would like to discuss the actions that can be taken to help stop drug trafficking worldwide‚ starting with one of the main drug routes from Mexico
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Geography 303 7 November 2009 How the Drug Culture in Mexico Has Corrupted Its Youth The topic I have chosen to address is the drug culture in Mexico. I will aim to answer the question: how has the drug culture in Mexico corrupted its youth? The geography of Mexico has contributed greatly to it becoming a drug trafficking hot spot. Mexico is located in the middle of the world’s largest consumer and producer of cocaine. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine
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