In recent news, the Mexico
continues to battle it out with drug cartels over the illegal monopolization of
cities all throughout the country. For decades, the United States has backed
Mexico during their struggle against the cartels for several reasons, one of
these reasons is because drug violence is channeled through Mexico across the
border and effects the lives of many US citizens dwelling close to the Mexican
border. The basic strategy for the Mexican government to eliminate this heinous
social issue is simple, eliminate trafficking.
The
issue with this plan, regardless of the help from the United States, is that it
is often difficult to know your enemy. The men and women in charge of the
movement of large quantities of narcotics across borders are in very elusive
disguises. They appear as everyday fathers, mothers, sister, priests,
government officials, and honest workers. The hardest moral dilemma for the
Mexican government is how to fend off such cartels without racking up an
astronomical body count of both police and civilians. Thus far, over 63,000 are
dead due to cartel activity across the country.
According
to the New York Times article, cartels are actually seen to choose peace over
war making such aggressive efforts from neighboring forces even more difficult.
Cartels have been witnessed to “pick their own wars” on multiple occasions. For
example, cartels battle cartels, not the US or Mexican government. The illusive
nature of their illegal activity is no doubt a cesspool of violence and
destruction, destruction in both forms—destruction from warlike initiatives as
well as in the form of societal destruction from the use of narcotics.
Nathaniel Funkhouser
04/19/2013
3:46pm
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