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- Introduction
- What Drugs Do The Cartels Traffic?
- Which Are The Largest Cartels?
- What Led to The Cartels’ Growth?
- How Are Drugs Smuggled Into The United States?
- What Measures Has Mexico Taken to Stem The Drug Trade?
- What Has Been The Toll on Human Rights?
- What Assistance Has The U.S. Government provided?
Mexican authorities have been waging a deadly battle against drug cartels for more than a decade, but with limited success. Thousands of Mexicans—including politicians, students, and journalists—die in the conflict every year. The country has seen more than 360,000 homicidessince 2006, when the government declared war on the cartels. The United Sta...
Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs)—sometimes referred to as transnational criminal organizations—dominate the import and distribution of cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in the United States. Mexican suppliers are responsible for most heroin and methamphetamine production, while cocaine is largely produced in Col...
Mexico’s drug cartels are in a constant state of flux. Over the decades, they have grown, splintered, forged new alliances, and battled one another for territory. The cartels that pose the most significant drug trafficking threats[PDF] to the United States, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are: Sinaloa Cartel. Formerly l...
Experts point to both domestic and international forces. In Mexico, the cartels use a portion of their vast profits to pay off judges, officers, and politicians. They also coerce officials into cooperating; assassinations of journalists and public servants by the cartels are relatively common. Dozens of politicians were killedahead of the country’s...
Most of the illicit drugs entering the United States that are seized by authorities are discovered at official ports of entry, of which there are more than three hundred. Traffickers employ various tactics to evade detection by U.S. authorities at the border. These include hiding or disguising drugs in vehicles or maritime vessels, smuggling them i...
Recent Mexican administrations have responded to cartels primarily by deploying security forces, often spurring more violence: Felipe Calderón (2006–2012).President Calderón declared war on the cartels shortly after taking office. Over the course of his six-year term, he deployed tens of thousands of military personnel to supplement and, in many ca...
Civil liberties groups, journalists, and foreign officials have criticized the Mexican government’s war with the cartels for years, accusing the military, police, and cartels of widespread human rights violations, including torture, extrajudicial killings, and forced disappearances. More than seventy-nine thousand peoplehave disappeared since 2006,...
The United States has cooperated with Mexico on security and counternarcotics to varying degrees over the past several decades. Recent efforts have centered on the Mérida Initiative; since Presidents George W. Bush and Calderón launched the partnership[PDF] in 2007, the United States has appropriated more than $3 billion for it. This assistance has...
The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as War against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
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5 de may. de 2023 · The War on Drugs dio su primer show en solitario en la CDMX y la espera valió la pena, porque su show en el Teatro Metropóllitan fue una joya.
5 de abr. de 2024 · Drug lab raids fell, the president vowed to replace a decade-old security agreement with the US, and he disbanded the federal police force, within which the DEA had built a vetted Sensitive ...
19 de ago. de 2022 · President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised a radical break with the militarized security strategy of his predecessors, which he blamed for turning Mexico 'into a cemetery.'
7 de ene. de 2020 · More than 60,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since the start of the country's war on drugs in 2006, according to authorities. The number is far higher than previous estimates of around...
