Mexican Drug War
Q: I am researching for a history paper about the Mexican drug war and I'm trying to look into how it got so bad, when the drug trade really originated, when it escalated, who was involved, etc.
Does anybody have any primary sources they can suggest?
A: Watch this on you tube, it's in spanish, but it's a very accurate history report on the drug cartles going back to El Rey De Los Cielos who really started it all, he used to rule all the drug cartels in Mexico so everything was calm cause they had 1 leader,
I have to write a paper about the mexican drug war it needs 3 body paragraphs what should I have the paragraphs about?
Four of reporters and photographers covering the perilous crime beat have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state, where two Mexican drug cartels are warring over control of smuggling routes and targeting sources of independent information.
The brutal campaign is bleeding the media and threatens to add Veracruz to the growing list of states where fear snuffs out reporting on the drug war.
Three photojournalists who covered crime in the port city of Veracruz were found dismembered and dumped in plastic bags in a canal Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative national newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the state capital of Xalapa.
An intrastate conflict is defined to be a conflict between a government and an organized part (inside the country). Does the war against the Mexican drug cartels count as this?
I've been researching all day about this topic.
I understand that cartels are fighting against each other to be the main drug provider to the US and that the cartels are also fighting against the Mexican gov't.
But I don't understand
MEXICO CITY — In a fresh blow to the prestige of the Mexican military amid a bloody drug war, three current or retired generals have been detained in Mexico as part of a government investigation of possible ties between ranking officers and organized
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Even by the standards of Mexico's drug-related violence, the events of recent weeks have been shocking. The reports sound as though they are from some battle between religious fanatics halfway around the world. Instead, they emanate from just across |
The brutal war over control of the drug trade in Mexican cities like Nuevo Laredo or Ciudad JuГЎrez leaves the state and the police powerless and paralyzed. Even if this civil war between the mafia clans between themselves and their fight against the
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Monterrey, Mexico – Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday along a highway connecting the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico to the US border, in what may signal an escalating war of terror among drug gangs.
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The only thing that's clear is that the people who live near the crime scene seem detached, said Mexico-based journalist Ioan Grillo. He has covered the drug war for more than a decade. That's increasingly how many Mexicans act, he said,
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For me, the hint came when, during a recent talk in which I declared my support for the Mexican drug war, a woman in the audience yelled: "Sellout!" It was startling but also refreshing. As a Mexican-American, I'm often accused by the right wing of
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