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The world is currently engaged in a War on Drugs: a war that has been waged for decades, which shows no indication of being successfully concluded in the near future. Drug trafficking has been a brutal issue in Mexico since the mid 19th century. Day-by-day millions of citizens walk down the streets and either are lucky or are killed by drug dealers. Many people are concerned about thedelinquency of drug dealers exporting marijuana to Mexico and around the world. Citizens believe that Mexico and the United States are facing a war against drugs and are losing, because everyday tons of drugs, especially marijuana, are exported to other countries. The War on drugs in Mexico has confronted domestic borders as well as in foreign lands, which has affected the country's economic policy. Inaddition, Mexico has lost relationships with other countries they trade with because they are losing power over the drug dealers. The focus of this essay will be: Is Mexico threat of becoming a failed state?
History:
Over the years drug trafficking has been a serious issue in Mexico. After President Felipe Calderon took the power in the presidential office, crimes increased significantly. OnAugust 23, 2010, in Tamaulipas, Northern Mexico, 72 immigrants who were traveling to the United States in search of the “American Dream” were brutally massacred by a faction of the drug cartel known as the Zetas. Only one immigrant from Ecuador survived the tragedy. The Zetas obligated the immigrants to become part of their organization; if the immigrants refused they would be killed. Only oneimmigrant was able to escape from the mass murderers. Although the government announced that drug trafficking was already in the federal hands, the agent assigned to the case disappeared. In response, Mexico declared war on the drug cartel, asking for aid from the United States.
The Zeta is an organization that started in the late 1990s and is one of the most dangerous organizations in Mexico dueto drug trafficking. The group was brought into existence when the leader of the Gulf Cartel divided the members of his organization into smaller groups because he did not want to risk the attention that a larger organization would gain. The Zeta was formed out of between one thousand to three thousand men and women in their mid twenties. As the Zeta grew in power, they began to consider themselvesto be “most violent, destructive, and lethal participant in that industry.” (Grayson. 2010) The Zetas have been fighting for years to dominate Mexico’s drug trafficking. They have become the most powerful organization in Mexico. Many analysts have stated that the police in Mexico cannot compete against the Zetas because they have become so violent and have more experience using guns and otherweapons making it more difficult to resolve this issue. Slowly, the Zetas have established a well-organized drug trafficking network in Guatemala and the United States. They are considered by ‘officials to be “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and violent” of the drug-related organizations active in Mexico.” (Brands 2009) The Zetas were considered a malicious group as stated by localofficials. Now it has become an organization with overwhelming and growing power.
Theories (Weber)
According to Weber a state is consider as a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of legitimate physical violence within a given territory; this territory is another of the defining characteristic of the state. (Weber.1946). In the first six months of 2011, Mexico experiencednumerous four-week periods in which more than 1,000 drug trafficking-related killings occurred. (MacCoun & Reuter. 2001) There is a debate on exactly how many have perished, but the results of a nearly five-year campaign to take down the Drug trafficking organization (DTOs) and move the drug trade out of Mexico have not brought the violence under control. As violence continues to escalate and reach...