Influence Of Gun Violence In Mexico

United States Influence on Mexico
Gun violence in Latin America is very high. The motive why gun violence is high in Latin America is because they lose hundreds of thousands due to organized crime. Latin America countries do not have powerful gun lobbies to keep them from passing laws to restrict access, but they lack effective law enforcement and suffer much higher crime levels than the U.S. does.
Mexico has an extended past of cartel deaths, drugs and weapon trafficking is in all time high growing year by year. Mexico's gangs have succeeded since the late 19th century, mostly in the northern part due to their vicinity to towns along the U.S.-Mexico border. But it was the American desire for cocaine in the 1970s that gave Mexican drug cartels enormous power to the production and transport illegal drugs across the border. Initial Mexican gangs were mainly situated in border towns where prostitution, drug abuse, breach of copyright and extortion succeeded. The United States devotes almost $500 million a year on backing Mexico’s war against cartels that shifts drugs to American consumers. Last year the Armed Forces police explain that 70 percent of the illegal guns impounded from Mexican Drug cartels in the five years previous had been U.S. made.
Mexicans claim that the war in drugs only made the cartels more violent and the state authorities more tainted. The result is that guiltless onlookers are often caught up in the crossfire. For periods, drug transferring groups have used Mexico's fragile political system to make "a network of corruption that ensured distribution rights, market access, and even official government protection for drug traffickers in exchange for lucrative bribes," (Shirk,2011).
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The possible cross-border benefits rising from U.S. gun control policy also smear more normally, beyond Mexico. The mixture of its size and the circumstance that it has one of most tolerant regulatory regimes in the world suggests that U.S. gun laws can have large local or even worldwide consequences. For example, most guns used in criminal acts detained in Jamaica over this past ten years have also been drew back to the U.S., specifically to the state of Florida.
Finally and most significantly we must all recognize the immensity of the problem and take big steps in assisting out with any proof we might know to the official authorities and FBIs. In doing all this we secure our borders by stopping gun flow, any types of drugs, kidnappings, murders, and the lawbreakers causing it before it gets to out of hand and bring the violence on our side of the border.