Research Paper Mexico War On Drugs

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Mexico War on Drugs.

The government of Mexico and its people have been on the news for the past several years. The issue of the topic for all this is comes to down to drug trade. The government had started a series of policies against drug trades that has been happening in the country and it has led to a lot of bloody results. From a series of numbers of arrests of drugs leaders and cartel members, to a sudden high rise in kidnappings and murders of politicians and innocent people, this war on drugs has turned out to be costly turn in both money and blood. The citizens of Mexico for a time seemed to have a civil war in their hands. With the history of politics of Mexico, mixed with …show more content…

Police for one are still having several big issues in Mexico regarding in pay, equipment, and safety. Every year that I went to Mexico (from 2000-2011) I would visit small towns and saw no improvement with the local police in terms of arsenal, vehicles and technology. Police forces receives very little help from both the state and federal government (Sabeth, 55). With this of course will create much havoc in terms of security in the towns and municipalities. Many people across Mexico have lost faith in the local police as they are unable to calm down the violence in Mexico. In Juarez, a border town across EL Paso, Texas, local police became so distrusting that Mexican government have sent more than 2,000 army soldiers and federal police to kick out the local police and take over local law enforcement duties (Burnett). Many people in Juarez were happy that this occurred as they no longer trust their own local police force there. Just recently the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico was actually done by corrupt police from the orders of a corrupt mayor and his wife because he was afraid the students were going to interrupt her speech. She was quoted as saying they needed to be taught a lesson …show more content…

Linda Wertheimer asked Jason Beaubien (both of them from NPR news) questions and how Mexico stands 5 years after 2006. H states that Mexico is in a critical moment and that some people are not involved, they are still scared about this fight. That Calderon did have the right motives to go after the drug trafficking but all could have been handled differently. He would go on to state it that while some cities have it so bad, some other others would go on as normal. Death numbers are still to this point rising in an alarming rate. Still, Beaubein would go on to say that there is no clear sign of a winner. Both Mexico and the drug cartels had their share of wins and losses. Mexico is at a critical point as they have the chance to show the world they can stand and fight their own problems. Still situations are not at ease for them and it appears even with the new election of Pena as president, Mexico would still struggle with this war for years to come. Website of Aljareera even states that Mexico could be losing the

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