Narcotrafico

known as narcotics, the word drug comes from the Greek: thing capable of numbing.Drugs are natural or artificial substances that have the power to lull and have been used for thousands of years, probably millions of years by people for religious celebrations or simply evade reality.Narcotics are very harmful and addictive substances. Some substances, such as opium and marijuana were used byancient cultures such as pain relievers or as part of religious ceremonies and not to evade the reality as it is used today. when drugs became illegal in most of the world after the legalization of alcohol, a new "business" emerged: the drug trade.This illegal activity produce thousands of millions of dollars a year around the world.according to studies, "about 4% of the world population consume drugs"(ONU), giving the drug dealer a huge market area.Over the years, drug trafficking in Mexico has been growing and expanding throughout the country, so, that it has become one of the most popular activities in Mexico and Mexico has become one of the biggest producers and exporters in the world.Unlike other drug-producing countries, Mexico is under the power of drug trafficking and in the midst of awar between the biggest drug cartels in Mexico and the government that is causing insecurity, government corruption, fear in society, business closures, organized crime, and citizenship extortion. Mexico has to do something urgently if they don't want the country to collapse.

Drug trafficking in mexico "started around the 40's but it wasn't until the 90's when Colombia's cartels -Cali andMedellin- gave their operations to the Mexican cartels" to traffic drugs easily to the U.S (Historia del Narcotrafico 1). As a consequence , the boarders between Mexico and U.S. became the entry to all colombian and mexican drug production.Later as the time passed, Mexico became the biggest producer of marijuana and the largest exporter of amphetamines to the United States, causing the emergence ofnew cartels. [It is from this point that the cartels divided the country in plazas to operate without problems]

As the companies in the market, cartels in the also have an organization that must be respected.since the beginning of drug trafficking in Mexico, there was a federation of drug cartels. This federation marked routes and places for each organization activities, so that each cartel couldwork without problems.in early 2000, this agreement is not respected by the Gulf cartel and the Zetas and it sparks a war between cartels to protect their plazas.The government of Vicente Fox wasn't involved militarily too much in the war but soon after, Felipe Calderon assumes the presidency and decided to fight drug trafficking, obtaining a violent response from the cartels. In other words,"thewar against drug trafficking started in the 2006 when Felipe Calderon assumes the presidency and sent an operation to combat drug gangs in the state of Michoacán, at the request of Gov. Lazaro Cardenas Batel" (La Guerra contra el Narcotrafico 1). [The war is the result of the ambition of power of the cartels and the government armed response.]

As a continuation of Vicente Fox's plan SafeMexico , Felipe Calderon decided to fight drug trafficking with weapons. Knowing how powerful drug cartels in Mexico are, Calderon decided to address them no matter what it cost the Mexican people, saying that [from la Realidad de la Guerra contra el Narcotrafico] "The Mexican State has the capacity, deployment and power to win this war" (1). Since the war between the cartels began 3 years ago, therehave been thousands of murders, including among this victims, civilian and military personnel from mexico .The people cant even go out at night because there's a huge probability that they will be assaulted, kidnapped,or find themselves in the middle of a shootout."Juarez was recognized in 2008 as the world's most violent city, with 130 intentional homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants", having...