Drug cartels have affected this world in many ways, such as drug trafficking between countries, drug cartel gangs, and the threat to many countries’ national security. Drug trafficking is a heated topic of this century and is mainly practiced in Central and South America. It is hard for the countries’ police forces to crack down on drug trafficking due to drug cartel gangs. Drug cartel gangs are spread out throughout the world. The gangs in Mexico have ties throughout the United States and many more countries. The drug cartel has gotten so powerful that it is considered a terrorist group by many countries. The main concern is members of the cartel spilling over into the United States of America. The drug cartels are responsible for overthrowing …show more content…
From 2006 to 2012 fighting between rival gangs and authorizes led to between 47,000 and 70,000 deaths (Grillo 253). The drug cartel has grown over the past 100 years, and they withstand forces trying to put them down (253). The gangs in the drug cartel expanded criminal activities to kidnapping, oil theft, piracy, and human smuggling (253). Many of the top name drug cartels have ties inside the prisons. “The Sinaloa Cartel ‘work release killers’ of 2010 didn’t need to escape from jail because at night prison officials let these inmates come and go, using prison vehicles and prison guns to commit outside massacres, as when they killed eighteen bystanders” (Moore 66). Three vehicles parked at the front of the prison gate (64). The men who got away said they were the Mexican version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (64). The guard claimed to have been using the restroom at the time (64). Five members of the Zeta cartel escaped that day (64). Workers at Apodaca prison were being paid $15,000 a year so the Zeta cartel could control the prison (62). Huger prison break out by gangs like the Zetas, turned Mexico’s state prison into a nightmare (65). Federal authorities said they would build six new high security prisons for a cost of $1 billion total (65). The Zetas broke away from the Gulf cartel in 2010 making them the most powerful cartel in the world (Grillo 259). The Zeta’s cartel killed seventy-two immigrants (Moore 61). Other cartel related killings, were so numerous in the Ciudad Juarez murder rate 165 deaths per 100,000, four times that of Baghdad, Iraq (Kellner and Pipitone 37). In Beltran Leyva in December 2009, the number of killings went from 259 to 487 in 2010 (Grillo 260). The worst moment in United States drug war history was the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique “Kiki” Camerona (257). Mexicans multi-billionaire cartel members have