There are three seemingly impossible tasks on earth: the stubborn disease of the first-class caste system in India, the eradication of the cancer of the chaebol group in South Korea, and the elimination of the cancer of drug lords in Mexico.
Among them, the caste system and the chaebol group, although harmful to the state, are not so bad as to completely collapse the state and **. India and South Korea** are not indifferent to resolving these issues, but will take time to move slowly.
However, cracking down on narcotics is the common mission of mankind, and anti-narcotics is a necessary measure to maintain social stability and protect people's lives and property.
In Mexico, the problem of drug offence has become a serious social problem. Although a lot of resources and manpower have been invested in cracking down on drug crimes, the power of drug dealers is still very strong, and even has become a warlord, posing a huge threat to the common people.
It makes one wonder why Mexico is on this path, and how the big drug lords can divide one side of the other. Why Mexico's regular army can't even fight drug lords, these questions need us to go deeper**.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Indian opium was the largest shipment of British exports to China, which once caused China to lose tens of millions of taels**. At the same time, opium and ** were widely cultivated in the Americas, which were originally sold in pharmacies as medicines, and the local coca leaf was widely popular in the American market along with opium and ** imported from overseas.
However, as awareness of the dangers of drugs deepened in the early 20th century, including laziness, weakness and hyperactivity, people of insight began to advocate for anti-drug propaganda.
Mexico** has adopted a strict ban policy for certain periods, including banning the sale of cocaine, opium, morphine and other drugs, as well as restricting the sale of spirits, mainly to maintain social morality.
This policy was effectively implemented over the next half century, and drug production and trafficking became criminalized, and Mexico** resolutely cracked down on these problems, so that drug trafficking networks have not been able to develop in Mexico, and the drug addiction population has remained low.
However, "difficult to develop" does not mean "impossible to develop", and due to Mexico's early limited control over the border areas, the local drug trafficking industry has grown rapidly in those remote border states, because it is a very lucrative business.
The reason why Mexican drug lords are thriving is not because of the situation in Mexico. Mexican drug dealers set up markets in major cities in the United States, such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other places, where Americans have a great demand for opium, ** and other drugs, and the Sicilian ** Party in the United States is also actively involved in this illegal business, so that the Mexican drug dealers can ensure their sales.
Although Mexico has long known about these drug crimes, due to its limited influence in the border states, the effect of cracking down on drug crimes is not ideal.
To make matters worse, at that time, Mexico's grassroots ** even colluded with drug dealers, and the police and military were in collusion with drug dealers, and as long as the drug dealers paid protection money, the police would open up their illegal business.
In the early days, Mexican drug traffickers were mainly traders. In the 60s of the 20th century, cocaine gradually emerged in South America, which led to the rapid growth of the cocaine business in Chile, Peru and Colombia, earning tens of billions of dollars from the United States every year.
However, at that time, Mexican drug traffickers were still on the margins of the drug network, and in addition to selling **, they could only occasionally help South American drug lords transport goods, with limited income.
However, all this changed in the early 80s. The United States** and Colombia** have joined forces to fight drug lords, resulting in the closure of US sea and air drug transport routes by the military.
As a result, Colombian drug lords in South America had to turn to Mexico to transport drugs, a change that allowed Mexican drug dealers to make more money on drugs and produce the first Mexican drug lords.
After entering the 90s, big drug lords such as Escobar in South America were eliminated, and the amount of cocaine in the American market was greatly reduced. Although the United States claims to have won the anti-drug struggle, in fact, the United States has given birth to a huge cocaine market, and countless addicts have raised the price of cocaine, making the price of drugs in the United States remain high, and drug dealers from all over the world have flocked to the United States.
So, the Mexicans took the opportunity to join the fray, and they began to make their own cocaine, which was then sent to the United States.
The extract of coca leaf can be made into cocaine after simple processing, which is not very difficult. In the mountains of South America, clay workshops were once everywhere to process coca leaves.
Since Mexicans had refined opium, the manufacture of cocaine was not new to them. At the end of the 80s, the size of the Mexican drug industry began to grow dramatically, and the drug lords in the border areas had the audacity to send drugs to the United States with impunity.
The United States has publicly criticized Mexico's inaction and asked for their support to carry out the U.S. anti-narcotics operation. At that time, the United States and Mexico joined forces to combat drug trafficking in western Mexico, and although there were some results, the Americans destroyed them with their own hands when they entered the 90s.
This is because, in the early 90s, Mexico signed the North American Freedom ** Agreement with the United States and Canada, which made it possible for North America to no longer have ** barriers, open markets between each other, and reduce or even eliminate tariffs.
Mexico's economic development seems to have been boosted, but in fact the dumping of industrial goods in the United States has led to the decline of Mexico's domestic industry and the rise in unemployment. Especially in agriculture, cheap agricultural products from the United States occupy almost all of Mexico's market, making it impossible for Mexican farmers to survive.
In order to solve their livelihood problems, they had to turn to the cultivation of drugs, which eventually led to the explosion of the drug industry in Mexico. This phenomenon is particularly acute in the ** region of Mexico, where the border provinces are full of drug fields.
* Nothing can be done about this situation, and Mexico's big drug lords have become rich as a nation. This peaked in the late '90s, when Mexican drugs almost monopolized the U.S. market, earning Mexico more than $20 billion a year.
However, this phenomenon has also led to the frequent occurrence of drug trafficking incidents, which has brought tremendous pressure to Mexico**.
The Mexican police are corrupt due to poverty and living pressure, collude with drug dealers, and even hand over law and order to drug dealers. In order to corrode **, drug lords prescribe *** every year, resulting in the entire ** being infiltrated by drug lords.
In Mexico at the beginning of the 21st century, ** colluded with drug dealers, who were allowed to grow drugs, produce finished products in the designated areas after paying taxes, and were provided with secret passages to transport drugs.
* and the corruption of the army allowed the drug lords to expand rapidly, even recruiting soldiers from the Mexican Army, creating a powerful private army. However, these drug lords are not only armed with **, but also fighting each other in the process of fighting for markets and transport routes.
Their brutality has become a stain on Mexican society, with the streets littered with severed heads, mutilated limbs, and burned corpses, and drug lords have even made their executions public to deter their enemies.
In 2006, Mexico*** bravely launched the "War on Drugs", vowing to fight drug production, drug trafficking and violent crime nationwide in order to maintain the stability and security of the country.
However, the war to eradicate the drug lords turned out to be a tragedy. Because the Mexican military police has a long-term cooperative relationship with drug lords, many young military and police officers have even been raised by drug lords since childhood, and their interests are closely linked to drug lords, so they are hindered everywhere in the anti-drug operation.
With his deep connections, the drug lord predicted all kinds of secret actions of the military and police, making it difficult for the military and police to be effective, and even fell into an ambush and suffered heavy losses. In order to warn ** not to be their enemy, the drug lords brutally executed the captured military police by extremely cruel means, including beheading and dismembering the bodies, and abandoning the bodies on the road as a way to deter ** and the public, and even retaliate against the families of some anti-narcotics police.
Instead of decreasing, violent crime in Mexico has continued unabated, spreading from remote areas to economically prosperous cities.
Since then, drug traffickers have increased dramatically in combat effectiveness, and have even been able to buy arms from overseas and build decent armies. Mexico's anti-narcotics forces are often on the back foot, and drug traffickers are often able to chase them.
Moreover, the propaganda and anti-drug work of ** is often threatened and retaliated against by drug dealers. In this context, in 2019, Mexico declared the end of the "war on drugs", and López did not use the word "victory", which was clear enough that the war had been lost.
Mexico** declared that tackling the drug problem is no longer a priority, but to focus on the root causes behind it. This is a profound reflection and understanding of the current situation, recognizing the complexity and seriousness of the drug problem, which requires the joint efforts of the whole society and the top-down reform of the country.
Currently, efforts are being made to address this issue in Mexico**. It's a long and difficult process that requires perseverance and joint efforts to achieve radical change.