MEXICAN CARTELS

Mexican Cartels

The drug war in Mexico is the name given to the set of operational state aimed at eliminating Mexican drug trafficking in the country U.S. Such action was initiated in December 2006 and consisted of one of the first acts of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa on the presidency of Mexico. The strategy adopted by the Mexican federal government is primarily in the use of security forces - Federal Police, Navy, Army - to suppress by force the cartels Mexican drug trafficking. (Maher, 2007)

While organizations illicit drug trafficking existed decades ago in Mexico, was in the 1990's when it became ...