Mexico's War On Drugs

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Fed up with the slow progress of the war, escalating violence and extortion of businessmen. Mexican people have begun to forms groups of vigilantes and kill gang members. While some people consider these vigilantes heroes, the official stance of the government is to discourage it. To help fight the war the Mexican government has requested assistance from the United States government stating that it is US consumers and powerful weapons smuggled in from across the border that finance and arm the violent drug cartels.

United States

Removed from the girth of the violence and corruption the United States prefers to fight the war on drugs with treatment and education. Finally the United States joined the fight by passing the Mérida Initiative in June 2008. The Mérida initiative pledges $1.4 billion in financial support along with Military training and increased border security to prevent the smuggling of weapons over a three year span. The support has stirred up some controversy when it was discovered the United States had been providing torture training for Mexican law enforcement but it was clarified the training was intended to help them resist the torture that might be inflicted on them from the drug cartels.

Still, the United States have been criticized that they are still not doing nearly enough to fight the war on drugs. Major criticisms have stated that $1.4 billion over three years is ‘chump change’ compared to the $100 billion a month spent on Iraq to liberate their people, and nearly $1 trillion to bailout financial and insurance firms in 2008 alone. Considering that it’s America’s own people being hurt by these cartels, most have come to doubt the United States’ commitment to the war on drugs.

It is well known that the drug trade was established by key players as a political attack against the United States but greed has kept drug cartels pumping dope in.  A famous example of this is the work of George Jung and Carlos Lehder. Together Jung and Lehder flooded the United States with cocaine by air, successfully raising the amounts being smuggled in from a few kilos at a time to a few tons. When Jung overheard that Lehder had not been in the business for money but to drop the deadly and addictive drug on the American’s like an atomic bomb, Jung broke ties with Lehder but continued trafficking the drug on his own until his capture.

 

 

 

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