Mexican Cartels, Good or Bad for the Economy

Introduction

Mexico's drug mafia is becoming more powerful. Although the total number of homicides in the country in the past two decades have been declining steadily, drug dealers have been committing heinous crimes. The history of modern Mexican drug begins in 1940s, when farmers from the mountain villages of the Mexican state of Sinaloa began to grow marijuana. The first Mexican drug traffickers was a bunch of villagers, connected by ties of kinship. For the most part they came from a small northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. This poor agrarian state, sandwiched between the Gulf of California and the Sierra Madre mountains, about five hundred kilometers from the U.S. border, has become an ideal place for the supply of contraband. Initially, there were grown marijuana or bought it from the other "gardeners" Pacific coast and then transported the drug in the U.S. For decades it has remained stable and not too risky to start small businesses, and violence is not spilling beyond the narrow little world of drug dealers. Later, the smuggling of marijuana and cocaine was added, which entered into vogue in the 60s. However, for a long time, Mexicans were only "donkeys", serving one of the supply chains of Colombian cocaine to North America. They did not even dare to compete with powerful Colombians. The heyday of Mexican narkoband began after the defeat of the U.S. and Colombian drug cartels Colombian Cali and Medellin. One after another, were killed by El Mexicali and Pablo Emilio Eskabar, planted in Colombian prisons and shtatovskih Ochoa brothers and Carlos Leder (El Aleman) of the Medellin cartel (Grillo, Ioan, p. 5-6). Behind them came the turn of Cali cartel, led by brothers Orihuela. Also, after the closure of American supply chain Colombian drugs through Florida, the Mexican way of delivery was in fact no alternative. Weakened by Colombians could no longer dictate to the Mexicans, and now only sell them large quantities of drugs at wholesale prices. As a result, Mexican gangs have gained control over the entire drug chain - from raw material plantations in the Andean region to the point of sale on American streets. They were able to significantly expand the scope of business: from 2000 to 2005, the supply of cocaine from South America to Mexico has increased more than twofold and only the amount of intercepted at the US-Mexican border amphetamine - five times (Grillo, Ioan, p. 5-6). This paper focuses on the study and identification of the fact that whether the Mexican cartels are good or bad for the Mexican economy.

Discussion

Mexican cartels, good or bad for the economy

In recent decades, various attempts to solve the problems related to the activities of drug trafficking groups have led to all sorts of speculation about the sincerity and effectiveness of methods used. Three experts discuss on the issue (Grillo, Ioan, p. 5-6).

There have been an enormous number of people killed, as part of operations against Mexican drug traffickers. The latter, described by President Felipe ...