Drug Traffiking in Mexico
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.
The project is co-sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (San Diego), the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington DC), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana), and El
Colegio de México (Mexico City).
Drug Trafficking Organizations and Counter-Drug Strategies in the U.S.-Mexican Context
Luis Astorga and David A. Shirk1
“Si la perra está amarrada/ aunque ladre todo el día/ no la deben de soltar/ mi abuelito me decía/ que podrían arrepentirse/ los que no la conocían (…) y la cuerda de la perra/ la mordió por un buen rato/ y yo creo que se soltó/ para armar un gran relajo (…) Los puerquitos le ayudaron/ se alimentan de la Granja/ diario quieren más maíz/ y se pierden las ganancias (…) Hoy tenemos día con día/ mucha inseguridad/ porque se soltó la perra/ todo lo vino a regar/ entre todos los granjeros/ la tenemos que amarrar”
As my grandmother always told me, ‘If the dog is tied up, even though she howls all day long, you shouldn’t set her free … and the dog the chewed its rope for a long time, and I think it got loose to have a good time…
The pigs helped it, wanting more corn every day, feeding themselves on the Farm and losing profits… Today we have more insecurity every day because the dog got loose, everything got soaked. Together all the farmers, we have to tie it up.
“La Granja” (Teodoro Bello), Los Tigres del Norte
Overview
The proliferation and impunity of organized crime
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.
The project is co-sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (San Diego), the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington DC), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana), and El
Colegio de México (Mexico City).
Drug Trafficking Organizations and Counter-Drug Strategies in the U.S.-Mexican Context
Luis Astorga and David A. Shirk1
“Si la perra está amarrada/ aunque ladre todo el día/ no la deben de soltar/ mi abuelito me decía/ que podrían arrepentirse/ los que no la conocían (…) y la cuerda de la perra/ la mordió por un buen rato/ y yo creo que se soltó/ para armar un gran relajo (…) Los puerquitos le ayudaron/ se alimentan de la Granja/ diario quieren más maíz/ y se pierden las ganancias (…) Hoy tenemos día con día/ mucha inseguridad/ porque se soltó la perra/ todo lo vino a regar/ entre todos los granjeros/ la tenemos que amarrar”
As my grandmother always told me, ‘If the dog is tied up, even though she howls all day long, you shouldn’t set her free … and the dog the chewed its rope for a long time, and I think it got loose to have a good time…
The pigs helped it, wanting more corn every day, feeding themselves on the Farm and losing profits… Today we have more insecurity every day because the dog got loose, everything got soaked. Together all the farmers, we have to tie it up.
“La Granja” (Teodoro Bello), Los Tigres del Norte
Overview
The proliferation and impunity of organized crime