Mexican drug war
Mexican Drug War
Background
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Mexico has had a reputation for trafficking drugs to the United States and
South America since the major trafficking started in the early 1960s, but the drug trade between the United States and Mexico started in 1933 when the United
States revoked the alcohol prohibition. It is easy for the drug cartels and traffickers to move the drugs through Mexico because of its prime location between the United States and South America. Also do to the cartels in nearby
Columbia.
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The Sinaloa Cartel, lead by Pedro Aviles Perez, was one of the original major drug smugglers in Mexico. Previously there was small time smuggling going through Mexico, but it wasn’t until the 1960 when Pedro Perez started smuggling marijuana to the border states of the United States.
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The cartels could only smuggle small amounts of marijuana into the United
States, either by putting small amounts stored into a suitcase or by walking it across the border in a backpack. This was a risky way to move the drugs and a lot of them were confiscated by authorities. They needed a new way to get the drugs across the border that was safer.
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Pedro Aviles Perez and Carlos Lehder thought of a new way to transport drugs. They tried loading them on a small aircraft and taking off from a small airport in Mexico and landing in the United States. It was a success. This revolutionized the way drugs were smuggled, and made it much easier to move large amounts of marijuana to the United States. This also led to huge profits for the cartels.
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In the 1970s the Mexican cartels joined together with the Columbians. The
Columbians started supplying the cartels with cocaine. Then the cartels would smuggle it across the border to the United States. In the beginning the cartels were paid in cash by the Columbians, but in the 80s they started to give the cartels 35-50% of the cocaine as payment. This brought the cartels into the business of selling the
Background
!
Mexico has had a reputation for trafficking drugs to the United States and
South America since the major trafficking started in the early 1960s, but the drug trade between the United States and Mexico started in 1933 when the United
States revoked the alcohol prohibition. It is easy for the drug cartels and traffickers to move the drugs through Mexico because of its prime location between the United States and South America. Also do to the cartels in nearby
Columbia.
!
The Sinaloa Cartel, lead by Pedro Aviles Perez, was one of the original major drug smugglers in Mexico. Previously there was small time smuggling going through Mexico, but it wasn’t until the 1960 when Pedro Perez started smuggling marijuana to the border states of the United States.
!
The cartels could only smuggle small amounts of marijuana into the United
States, either by putting small amounts stored into a suitcase or by walking it across the border in a backpack. This was a risky way to move the drugs and a lot of them were confiscated by authorities. They needed a new way to get the drugs across the border that was safer.
!
Pedro Aviles Perez and Carlos Lehder thought of a new way to transport drugs. They tried loading them on a small aircraft and taking off from a small airport in Mexico and landing in the United States. It was a success. This revolutionized the way drugs were smuggled, and made it much easier to move large amounts of marijuana to the United States. This also led to huge profits for the cartels.
!
!
In the 1970s the Mexican cartels joined together with the Columbians. The
Columbians started supplying the cartels with cocaine. Then the cartels would smuggle it across the border to the United States. In the beginning the cartels were paid in cash by the Columbians, but in the 80s they started to give the cartels 35-50% of the cocaine as payment. This brought the cartels into the business of selling the