Coming into the blog project, I knew quite a bit about the drug war in North America. I live in a mexican community and took spanish at my high school so the culture was all around me. Plus, I like to keep updated on news events that are going on around me. However, I was suprised [...]
La Familia Michoacana
Over this last week, the United States Justice Department organized raids all over the country that arrested 303 members of the dangerous and terribly influential drug cartel group La Familia Michoacana. This group is known to behead its enemies and are super religious, describing their actions as messianic. This is a major accomplishment of the United States [...]
Emphasis On The Violence
There is this New York Times article that has been up on the website for a week titled “In Mexican Drug War, Investigators Are Fearful” by Marc Lacey. I have avoided reading it because it was so intimidating, but as of this morning I read the entire thing. I realized it was a perfect article [...]
Other Blogs
As part of my Q Class, I have to look up and comment on two to three other people’s wordpress accounts. I commented on two of my cohorts blogs, smosier42 and ameleo. Smosier42 has decided to write about the global unemployment crisis and ameleo has decided to write about organ trafficking. Both have very tough topics [...]
Who’s Really Fighting This War?
Is it the drug cartels? Drug addicts? Police officers? The Drug Enforcement Agency? The CIA? Our tax money? Who is really fighting this North American drug war? I assume it is all the categories I have mentioned. We are all part of this war, whether we know it or not. Legal action is being made to try [...]
Canada
Canada. A country of the cool, calm, and legal marijuana. With the legalization of marijuana, why in the world would there be a drug war? There the people do not have to hide their drugs from the police, they are alloted to buy it freely. However, it is not marijuana that is causing the rising [...]
Other Countries
I mostly have focused on the North American drug trafficking problem, as it is my topic, but I would just like to tell all the readers that Mexico and the United States are not the only major drug trafficking countries out there. According to the annual list presented by the President of the United States to Congress, [...]
Multiple Drug Cartels
As research continues, I realize how many Mexican drug cartels exist. Just to name a few prominent groups, there are Los Zetas, Juarez Cartel, Tijuana Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, and many others. However, each cartel runs a certain area of the country. For example, the Sinaloa Cartel is based in Culiacan, Sinaloa and the Tijuana Cartel [...]
Project Underway
It has been a few weeks into the blog and I learn more and more about drug cartels each day. Drug cartels do not only exist in Mexico, but in the United States and any other country that has a mafia as well, such as Afganistan and Colombia. As I have decided to focus my [...]
