The death toll in Mexico’s drug war has topped 50,000 in five years. Though this figure is a cause of concern, one needs to think about why so many people are dealing drugs, not just using them. Social inequalities are not just issues of sexuality or gender; when an entire population is faced with the epidemic of drug cartels this is cause for global concern and that’s what Mexico presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is saying, “A lifelong defender of Mexico’s poor and downtrodden, the 58-year-old Lopez Obrador argues that soldiers should be sent back to their barracks and replaced by social workers and jobs”.
The article I read this week is one that talks about the battle Mexico is currently facing with drug cartels and the new presidential candidate is saying that instead of fighting drug cartels with guns, which clearly hasn’t been victorious, they should actually fix the problem of their broken economy. This theory has proven right time and time again, when the economy is down and people are desperate, they will do what they need to do to survive. Most people don’t just wake up one morning and decide they want to be drug dealers; there are normally long lists of inequalities they have faced prior to ending up at this point.
Birth rates in large urban cities have been steadily declining which is mainly due to the economy—people simply can’t afford to have more children. In Mexico, not only can they not afford to have more children, sometimes they can’t afford to feed the children they have or even themselves. This is an issue that needs to be fixed, though it can’t be done overnight, or even in the purposed 6 months that presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is saying, it is an issue that can be fixed.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/111116/calderon-drug-war-lopez-obrador-pena-nieto
4 comments:
It is obvious that the economic inequality in Mexico is high. I glad the new presidential candidate realizes that in order to fix the problem they have to start with their broken economy. I am surprised of the high number of deaths in the past five years due to the drug war. This issue needs a plan that can effectively address this issue. I also, think if more people globally should see how this could affect them too.
It is obvious that the economic inequality in Mexico is high. I glad the new presidential candidate realizes that in order to fix the problem they have to start with their broken economy. I am surprised of the high number of deaths in the past five years due to the drug war. This issue needs a plan that can effectively address this issue. I also, think if more people globally should see how this could affect them too.
I agree that the main focus should be on fixing the broken economy. They should be more focused on solving the root of the problem instead.The government should provide more job opportunities, so people won't feel as if selling drugs is their only option.
I agree fixing the economy should be a priority amongst other things. The government along with the community should allot more opportunities for citizens so they won't feel illegal activity is the only way to make ends meet.
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