Mexico Drug Violence Essay

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Mexico’s Harmful Drug Violence
43 students remain missing, 85,00 people killed, 8,000 reported missing and never found, and 10.7 million houses in Mexico that have been apart of a crime in 2013; all since President Felipe Calderón launched his massive crackdown on the drug cartel in 2006. Mexico’s cartel is extremely harmful to the country's well-being and it needs to be terminated for the crime-consumed country to thrive. Mexico has always had a problem with drugs and violence, but it has reached an all-time high recently and solving the problem will take patience, determination, and cooperation from everyone. While some believe legalizing drugs could deestablish Mexico’s drug cartel, it needs to be abolished by cleaning up Mexico’s corrupt …show more content…

In Third World Quarterly, Mercille writes, “The conventional view thus focuses on the drug cartels’ role in causing mayhem in Mexico and corrupting its governmental institutions.” The cartel is not scared authorities anymore, and the corruption problem needs to be solved before the police can gain control over the cartel again. Mexico’s government cannot do this all themselves and they will need the citizens and police to act jointly and work towards the same end for the drug violence to die off. To emphasize this even more, “More than 40 students in Iguala, a city in southern Mexico, disappeared as they tried to commandeer buses to take them to a political rally in Mexico City. What they found was disturbing: The city’s mayor had allegedly ordered the police to kidnap the students and hand them over to a local drug gang.” (Hootsen) This situation is extremely scary and makes it necessary for the corrupt Mexican police or officials to be removed. The cartel is far more powerful than the police force and that is why they need to work as a whole and not let the cartel get away with anything anymore. This all proves the unity of all of Mexico is so important before resolving the bigger

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