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http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/Resources/CRS%20Report%20to%20Congress%20-%20Mexico's%20Drug%20Cartels.pdf

These cite gives off information about Mexican interactions with US in the illegal export of drugs and guns. It also explains how this organized and specialized group has been getting stronger ever since 1990 because of the demise of Colombia’s Cali and Medellin cartels. The current president of Mexico has declared this violent case as a major war versus this criminal organization threat to the Mexican state. This whole website describes the actions of Mexican laws joined along US laws fighting against the drug cartels.


http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40582_20090515.pdf

The cartels fight over the territory and power of smuggling routes into the United States. In the article it describes how the president Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of troops and federal police to fight the cartels. As the years have progressed the years have lead to thousands of lives and have climaxed to a high intensity point that has exceeded past cartel violence. Both the US and Mexico passed the Merida Initiative in October 2007 to send $700 million to help Mexico prepare for the wars and give them better equipment.


http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aqh&AN=48897220&site=ehost-live

It is said that the resulting wars in Mexican territory was a result of Colombia’s successful war on the Cali and Medellin drug cartels in the 1990’s. The leader Pablo Escobar was gunned down by officials and the leaders of the Cali cartel were captured. This weakened them a lot and created opening for Mexican cartels.


http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11746&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CatoHomepageHeadlines+(Cato+Headlines)

In the recent years Mexico has suffered problems from the violence and wars that are going on. This article provides information about why the government did not keep a strong military to fight off with. It states that the government stopped with the military because if the military was corrupts, poor built, not strong enough then it would not overflow the government it would be ruled under. That is the reason why every different state has its own police department and deal with their own problems. Also the reason why the government knows that they will not win the war is because if the US can not lower the demand for drugs then nothing will get solved. It has not be able to reduce it in the last 40 years so highly unlikely that it will now.