Clare Almond Conflict Assessment Report - 1330 Words

Clare Almond Conflict Assessment Report (December 2015) 13000713 The Mexican Drug War The origin of the Mexican cartel started with a Mexican police officer called Miguel Gallardo nicknamed the Godfather who established the Guadalajara cartel in the 1980 s (Hausmann, Austin Mia, 2009). He managed to control all the drug trade and drug trafficking routes throughout Mexico to the US and was the first Mexican drug chief that was linked to Columbia’s cocaine cartel. Since Gallardo there has been a number of cartels; Knights Templar, Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas, Gulf Cartel, Beltran-Leyva Organisation, Juarez Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel (Mexico s Major Drug Cartels, 2015). In 2006 president Felipe Caldron sent troops to Michaocan†¦show more content†¦CJNG are a group of traffickers that left the Sinaloa Cartel group in 2010 and due to their experience with the Sinaloa Cartels gained knowledge of the drug market and connections that provided stability to the group (Bender, 2015) The drug cartels don t only smuggle drugs across the US border but smuggle firearms in which come from the American black markets as it is extremely difficult for Mexicans to purchase firearms in Mexico City (Astorga Shirk, 2010). Due to the Mexican Cartels gaining access to firearms and their groups growing in numbers it has made it difficult for the authorities to try and take down the organisations. Also the more the authorities get involved the more that the cartels take it upon themselves to pursue public killings, mass killings, torture, kidnaps, threats, and use the media to in retaliation to the authorities attempting to take down their businesses (Stewart, 2011). One of the main factors driving the Mexican Drug war is poverty. The reason being that lower-class people need an income and people are that desperate that they are joining these criminal organizations to earn easy money (Monza, Rios Shirk, 2012). It could be said that this is a fault of the government for not providing well paid jobs and an ineffective education system. This issue has been