In recent world news, wars and such
are continuing across the globe. Interestingly, this time the “war” efforts in
Mexico are not against political or religious ideological differences, but against
an increasing problem that the country is all too familiar with—drugs. Mexico
is struggling with its limited resources to tighten controls of cartels moving
large amounts of narcotics throughout the country and other surrounding
countries such as Peten. According to a recent article on Aljazeera, one man, Joaquin
"El Chapo" Guzman—a notorious leader of one of Mexico’s drug cartels—was
supposedly killed in Peten during a scuffle between traffickers and their “forces.”
Although Guzman’s death is yet to be confirmed, Mexican authorities are nearly
certain that Guzman is no longer running the drug show in Mexico or throughout
the world.
What
makes this recent news an interesting and global issue is due to the impact
that the world will feel now that Guzman may possibly be dead. According to the
article, Guzman was supposedly involved in drug operations that imported and
exported narcotics in and around nearly 140 nations worldwide. Even though
Guzman is still the most wanted man in Mexico, the United States as placed a
five million dollar bounty on Guzman or for any information that may lead to
Guzman’s arrest. It has been estimated
that nearly 70,000 people have been killed due to the violence typically
witnessed in association with the trafficking of narcotics. Typically, the
largest numbers of these victims are not cartel members or Mexican police; they
are the unfortunate bystanders and local citizens caught in the crossfire.
Nathaniel Funkhouser
02/22/2013
4:21pm
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