Mexican Drug Cartel War

Introduction

Mexico, the foremost drug making and transit country, is major foreign supplier of marijuana and the foremost supplier of methamphetamine to United States. Although Mexico accounts for only the little share of worldwide heroin production, it supplies the large share of heroin consumed in United States. An approximated 90% of cocaine going into United States transits Mexico. Violence in boundary district has influenced U.S. citizens. More than 60 Americans have been kidnaped in Nuevo Laredo, and in July 2007, Mexican drug cartels reportedly endangered to murder the U.S. reporter covering drug aggression in boundary region. United States and Mexico are allegedly negotiating the new counternarcotics initiative. (Backes 44)

Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking associations, have lived for rather some time, they have become more mighty since demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now override wholesale illegal drug market in United States. Arrests of key cartel managers, especially in Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have directed to expanding drug aggression as cartels fight for command of trafficking paths into United States. Gulf and Sinaloa cartels reportedly use individual "enforcer gangs" to maintain aggression and threaten Mexican people and public officials. Mexican President Felipe Calderón has called drug aggression the risk to Mexican state (Backes, 44).

Discussion and Analysis

Mexico's cartels have lived for some time, but have become progressively mighty in latest years with demise of Medellín and Cali cartels in Colombia. Closure of cocaine trafficking path through Florida furthermore shoved cocaine traffic to Mexico, expanding function of Mexican cartels in cocaine trafficking. National Drug Intelligence Center now considers Mexican drug cartels as overriding U.S. illegal drug market. According to Center, Mexican cartels "use their well-established overland transport systems to transport cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin - Mexican and progressively South American - to drug markets all through country." Colombian assemblies extend to "maintain important command over South American cocaine and heroin smuggling and circulation in to east United States, whereas their function has weakened as that of Mexican assemblies has expanded(Aldrich, 81)”.

Since taking agency in December 2006, President Calderón has made tackling drug cartels and drug aggression the peak main concern of his administration. He has called expanding drug aggression in Mexico the risk to Mexican state, and has dispatched 24,000 fighters and government policeman to nine states to battle cartels. Mexico's Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, demonstrated in April 2007 that government's anticartel start will elaborate after counter-cartel policeman and infantry procedures to encompass institutional and operational reforms. He furthermore asserted that only way Mexico can effectively beat cartels unless it gets more collaboration from United States in tackling arms trafficking and cash laundering from United States to Mexico. In October 2007 White House Office of National Drug Control Policy described that Mexican government's expanded force on cartels coincided with cocaine shortages in 37 U.S. towns and the 24% boost in retail cost of cocaine throughout second quarter of 2007 (Backes, 44).

In February 2006, Mexico's Deputy Attorney General for Organized Crime, José ...