Nov 12, 2010
4:44 p.m.
During a clash against the Mexican government, one of the leaders of the Gulf drug cartel was killed. The former leader of the cartel was Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, known as Tony the storm. Guillen was killed in Matamoros, Mexico, which is where the Gulf drug cartel is based. As the war against drug cartels and the Mexican government has been going on for years, the death of another leader is proving that there is a chance in stopping these violent cartels.
The Mexican government and authorities need to get control over these drug cartels and gangs, because this issue is not only affecting their society but also the United States. Since Mexico is just a boarder away from the United States people from both sides have easy access to each other. Because of the violence in Mexico universities in the United States, such as Texas Southmost College have had to cancel their classes. Members of the local colleges in Texas said that they could clearly hear gun shots.
The violence between the Mexican government and the drug leaders and gangs is going to cause economic and population problems if some type of control or peace is not made between the two parties. Mexicans and other ethnic groups living in Mexico are going to want to migrate away from the violence, causing the population to decrease. As this issue is publicized in the United States and other countries, no one is going to feel safe enough in Mexico to come and travel, causing the tourism income to decline.
Although the amount of deaths in relation to drug cartel violence keeps increasing at a steady rate, hopefully the death of one leader can bring some positive attention to the situation and then defuse the situation.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/11/05/mexico.violence/index.html
2 comments:
I wish that I could be as optimistic about this issue as you. More recent news shows that the drug cartel has reacted violently to the death of their leader. The gunmen blocked roads and burned cars. (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A51JJ20101107?)
Moreover, I think they will take revenge by killing more chiefs of police officers in charge of the war against drug cartels.
Destroying the head of a group of devil cannot effectively destroy the evil because another devil will become the head. What needs to be addressed are the very root causes of the evil. Otherwise, revenge will definitely ensue, engulfing the whole conflict issue into an infinite vicious cycle!
I agree with you because this is a continuing problem going on in Mexico and US borders. This has got out of hand, I don't think it should get to the point where it is interrupting a students education. Maybe his death may have some time of impact to decrease the drug trafficking and drug use.
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