War on Drugs: Mexican Cartels
War on Drugs: Mexican Cartels
Geography101B
Baker College
As Americans in the United States face the war on drugs, we struggle to get a grip on the killer of a nation. It seems as if illegal narcotics are killing and destroying families at an alarming rate. Since the early eighties, children have dropped out of school to make a profit from this dream killer. Many parents were either addicted to these illegal drugs, or in denial of their corruption. In many legal cases you hear the convicted say, “We don’t have poppy fields in North America,” which leads our government to do critical speculation. Where do these drugs come from? How are they entering our states and destroying families? These are the questions that many have. Upon research, it has become clear that the Mexican Cartels are the main and biggest contributors to the narcotic empire. Pushing illegal drugs from Mexico through the border of Lerado, Mexico and Lerado, Texas has been the success of these cartels in distributing drugs into the United States. Government officials face the horror of senseless deaths as the fight for War on Drugs begins.
Mexico has been known for its outrageous reputations within the Drug Cartels that is rapidly distributing illegal narcotics into the United States. Drug wars have been at an all- time high in 2011 since it started in 2007. The two most infamous cartels are the Zetas and the Sinaloa Federation. “The Zetas Cartel was originally formed in the late 1990s by deserters from the Mexican special -forces who were hired as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel. The Zetas are alleged to be behind a series of massacres that provoked the Guatemalan government to declare a state of emergency and send in military special -forces to the region that borders Mexico.” (Grillo, 2012) They expanded rapidly, hiring many former police officers, soldiers and street thugs into their ranks. To attract recruits, they even put up job advertisements on blankets and hung them from bridges. The
Geography101B
Baker College
As Americans in the United States face the war on drugs, we struggle to get a grip on the killer of a nation. It seems as if illegal narcotics are killing and destroying families at an alarming rate. Since the early eighties, children have dropped out of school to make a profit from this dream killer. Many parents were either addicted to these illegal drugs, or in denial of their corruption. In many legal cases you hear the convicted say, “We don’t have poppy fields in North America,” which leads our government to do critical speculation. Where do these drugs come from? How are they entering our states and destroying families? These are the questions that many have. Upon research, it has become clear that the Mexican Cartels are the main and biggest contributors to the narcotic empire. Pushing illegal drugs from Mexico through the border of Lerado, Mexico and Lerado, Texas has been the success of these cartels in distributing drugs into the United States. Government officials face the horror of senseless deaths as the fight for War on Drugs begins.
Mexico has been known for its outrageous reputations within the Drug Cartels that is rapidly distributing illegal narcotics into the United States. Drug wars have been at an all- time high in 2011 since it started in 2007. The two most infamous cartels are the Zetas and the Sinaloa Federation. “The Zetas Cartel was originally formed in the late 1990s by deserters from the Mexican special -forces who were hired as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel. The Zetas are alleged to be behind a series of massacres that provoked the Guatemalan government to declare a state of emergency and send in military special -forces to the region that borders Mexico.” (Grillo, 2012) They expanded rapidly, hiring many former police officers, soldiers and street thugs into their ranks. To attract recruits, they even put up job advertisements on blankets and hung them from bridges. The
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