Some interesting facts about the Mexican drug war. 2012.

1. MEXICAN DRUG WAR
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2. Background
In the 80’s mexican and colombian organizations formed partnerships to
distribute cocaine through Mexico into the United States.
Longtime implicit arrangement between narcotics traffickers, PRI
(Institutional Revolutionary Party) governments and police were
discovered.
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3. Drug traffic routes:
Before and After
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4. Drug Cartels : The fight for the territory
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5. Drug Cartels : The fight for the territory
$39 billion is the top estimated amount Mexican and Colombian drug
trafficking organizations make in wholesale profits annually, according to
a 2009 Justice Department report.
South of the border it costs $2,000 to produce a kilo of cocaine from leaf
to lab, the DEA said. In the U.S., a kilo's street value ranges from
$34,000 to $120,000,
Journalist Ioan Grillo: Wars occur because people cannot feed their
families. They happen because groups of people feel unimportant,
disenfranchised, angry and broke. They want a piece of life. It only takes a
few people with particularly hollow morals, capable of shutting off or
suppressing guilt, to convince many that killing and dying in spectacular
ways is tantamount to glory.
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6. Mexican drug cartels in the U.S.
Mexican drug cartels have been growing marijuana on 20 states and 67 national forests.
Between 2005 and 2010, 3,900 marijuana crops were found on lands guarded by the
federal government.
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7. Traffic Weapons from the U.S. to Mexico
Mexico's president called on U.S. officials to stop gun trafficking
across the border, saying the move would be the best thing
Americans could do to stop brutal drug violence.
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8. Traffic Weapons from the U.S. to Mexico
2009 - 2010: 29, 284
firearms seized.
69% : 20, 504 came from
the U.S. source.
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9. Traffic Weapons from the U.S. to Mexico
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10. Two bad sides of the border
Lax U.S. gun laws: In Arizona background checks are not required to sell fire guns
and anyone can buy any number of weapons.
Fast and Furious Operation: Between 2009 and 2011 ATF (Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) agents allowed 2,000 weapons to be bought by
straw-purchasers, in hopes of tracing those weapons in a cartel gun smuggling ring.
Calderon government fired hundreds of corrupt police officers, and even disarmed an
entire town, saying that most of its police force was working for the cartels.
Human rights have been abused by mexican cartels, military and police.
Since 2006, nearly 60,000 people have been killed in drug related violence in
Mexico. 27, 200 criminals have been captured.
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