...Success is something we all dream of but do not always achieve. Mistakes are inevitable but what is truly important is whether or not we learn from said mistakes. One of the key issues facing Mexico today is the drug cartels. They have been allowed to run rampant throughout Mexico and have not been kept in check. As a result, things quickly got out of hand and now the cartels present the government with a huge problem. By taking steps to preserve the rule of law through reinforcing important government institutions and eradicating weaker ones, the government should be able to avoid the drug cartels taking over and Mexico becoming a failed state. There are many different ways for a country to become a failed state. A country obtains the title...
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...General History of Mexico Mexico foundation starts in the year 900 B.C. with the migration of the Mexica from Aztlan tribe, towards the center of Mexico. When the Mexica tribe arrived, where now stands Mexico City, they found an eagle holding a serpent between its claws on a cactus. The Mexica thought this was a message from their god Huitzilopochtli (sun god) telling them that there was their sacred land. Pre-Hispanic Cultures Before the Mexica arrived to the center of Mexico and Central America, many pre-Hispanic cultures were developed, sharing their traditions and culture. When we talk about Mesoamerica, it refers to cultures that existed before the European conquest in the territories that are now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In Mesoamerica grew and faded many cultures, some of the most important were the Olmec, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec. These cultures had their own art, architecture and religion, most of these cultures were conquered by other cultures and therefore there was a mixture developing and forming a new and enriched culture. These cultures lived on the Pre-classic, Classic and Post classic which is division in periods of the pre-Hispanic period, some of these cultures lived for over a period, others just lived through one. The Conquest of Mexico and the Creation of New Spain In 1492 Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba and thought that they were in the Indies (today India). Almost thirty years later...
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...closest neighboring borders within Mexico lie huge drug war problems both nations are attempting to resolve through the use of a variety of different foreign policy including military intervention, sharing of information, and stricter border control. Yet it would seem that all of which have been ineffective in solving the problem and may have even worsened it. These costly and terrible policies are hurting both nations and only tarnishing the...
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...Immigrants Need Support The dangers that are seen on the border have increased drastically year by year. The U.S. Border Patrol has impacting gangs, cartels and immigrants on the Mexican border. The U.S. Border Patrol faces danger when they go up against the drug cartels at the border because the people the drug cartels send across the border sometimes carry firearms, making it difficult for the border to determine if they should open fire on the person. There are many places along the U.S. border where these groups are put at high risk for safety. There is no guaranteed safety for either side, therefore based off the decision, to cross or not to cross, the consequences of what happen depends on the individual. There are people, coyotes, who know of certain parts of the border where they can help immigrants cross but they do not guarantee that they will make it across safely. Immigrant families Immigration from the Southern Mexico to the United States occurs on a freight train, “La Bestia” which takes passengers directly to the United States border, starting in Chiapas and crossing all of Mexico until the border (Watson and Jerrreat). These passengers ride on top of the train or in the freights, putting their life at risk to the point of death. One important aspect of this train is that drug cartels are in charge of the fees mounting the train. They charge what is equivalent to 100 dollars (Watson and Jerreat). Once that is paid in some form or another, they still pose many...
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...Congress approved the "Secure Fence Act of 2006" which sanctioned the construction of numerous separation barricades at the Mexican-American border and the installation of a virtual fence entailing surveillance cameras, sensors, and other equipment to cover those parts of the border that do not have a physical wall. The debate is related to the American debate on immigration, and controversies about the fence centre on its effectiveness, expense, representational value, and more. How accurate however, is the claim that the Mexico-US border fence is justified? The main argument for the preservation of the Mexico-US border fence is economic. It is claimed that illegal immigrants drain the benefits system leaving less money to be spent on other areas such as health care and reforms. It is a common misconception that Mexican immigrants do low paid unskilled work which the majority of American citizens are unwilling to undertake. However these facts are disputed by the writer Steven Camarota who states ‘Of the 465 civilian occupations, only four are majority immigrants. These four occupations account for less than 1 per cent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans comprise 47 per cent of workers in these occupations.’ Drug trafficking and the resultant violence in Northern Mexico is a real problem for the United States and for the Mexicans themselves. However by constructing a fence which has been called a ‘wall of hate’ then surely this exacerbates the situation...
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...The overland homeland security for example, by having this barrier is to protect citizens from criminal activities such as human smuggling or human trafficking. Writer states that “It hopes to impede the work of the Mexican drug cartels; the United States would have to extend the wall underground to cut off smuggling tunnels” (Writer). By getting rid of the smuggling tunnels Mexican drug-cartels illegal activities would have to reduce due to this drastic change. Also, another pro is past success of boarder enforcement. Arizona is one states where illegals have cross for several years now. In San Diego’s border, it has been proven that less illegals have tried to cross the border about 600,000 people in the late 1990’s (McFadyen). McFadyen implies “After the construction of a fence and increased border patrols, that number dropped to 39,000 in 2015.” With more border patrol units, is making it easier to track down immigrants. Another achievement on border enforcement...
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... start your engines Bureaucrats and backhanders A glimmer of hope The gain before the pain Stretching the safety net The ebbing Mexican wave The other American dream The 31 banana republics Sources & acknowledgements Reprints America needs to look again at its increasingly important neighbour Nov 24th 2012 | from the print edition NEXT week the leaders of North America’s two most populous countries are due to meet for a neighbourly chat in Washington, DC. The re-elected Barack Obama and Mexico’s president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, have plenty to talk about: Mexico is changing in ways that will profoundly affect its big northern neighbour, and unless America rethinks its outdated picture of life across the border, both countries risk forgoing the benefits promised by Mexico’s rise. The White House does not spend much time looking south. During six hours of televised campaign debates this year, neither Mr Obama nor his vice-president mentioned Mexico directly. That is extraordinary. One in ten Mexican citizens lives in the United States. Include their American-born descendants and you have about 33m people (or around a tenth of America’s population). And Mexico itself is more than the bloody appendix of American imaginations. In terms of GDP it ranks just ahead of South Korea. In 2011 the Mexican economy grew faster than Brazil’s—and will do so again in 2012. Yet Americans are gloomy about Mexico, and so is their government: three years ago...
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...Pablo Escobar Colombia’s Dream or Nightmare? December 2, 1993 the world’s most wanted man was tracked down to a small house in a suburb outside of Medellin. Many would ask who the world’s most wanted man was at this time and it would be none other than El Padrino (the Godfather) Pablo Escobar. For those who do not know El Padrino he was the world’s largest cocaine distributor in the world. Even though many Colombians prospered from Pablo Escobar’s cocaine trade; was the financial gain worth the state becoming a narco-terror state; and introducing the world to a substance which would increase terror and corruption in two countries. Many Colombians and Americans would say no. Even though killing Pablo Escobar did not reduce the output of cocaine being imported into the U.S. and around the world. Many Colombians felt as if his death ended the narco-terror which paralyzed Colombia for almost fifteen years, but some Colombians believe that his good justified the means of his brutality. In the early 1970’s the United States started a campaign called the War on Drugs, President Richard Nixon declared “drug abuse enemy number one’ in 1971. Why did Richard Nixon take a hard line look at drugs with the Vietnam War taken place? Was it because, he looked at drugs as symbols of rebellion, political strife, and or social upheaval? Who knows what President Nixon’s reasoning for this new policy? After this policy was established earlier in the decade; there was a drug renaissance about a certain...
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...This country’s structure is made up of morals and politics, so anytime an issue receives mixed responses coming from two different points of view it always become controversial. Legalizing marijuana is a controversial topic; however, there many positive arguments to support the idea of legalizing marijuana. First of all, it’s very expensive to keep marijuana illegal. According to Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer at Harvard University who studied about the impact of drug legalization, it cost the government almost about 20 billion dollars every year for keeping marijuana illegal. There is no good reason for marijuana not to be legal. From a philosophical point of view, people deserve the right to make choices for themselves. The government only has a right to limit those choices if people’s actions endanger someone else, but marijuana does not The current laws are doing more harm than good, legalizing marijuana would benefit the country in many ways. The government should not tell individuals what to do as long as they not harming others. From a philosophical point of view, individuals deserve the right to make choices for themselves. According to the philosopher Herbert Spencer, what equal freedom means is that: firstly people will have the responsibility for their own lives, rather than surrendering this responsibility to others (or pretending that they have given up responsibility, which is every bit as destructive), secondly since that will be true, fewer mistakes will be...
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...fear from the hate of other racial groups that feel they are trespassing on their territories. Drugs play a big part to the Latino economy, these gang members have killed multiple police officers. Gang members are being arrested every single day in America for the distribution of Cocaine, Marijuana, Crystal Meth, and Heroin. Somebody needs to get these brutal criminals off of the streets, these gang members are causing death to the innocent people of America. We’re just sitting around watching the death rate add up. The murder rate against African Americans is 8,000 to 9,000 deaths a year. Does anybody see this as a problem? The crime rate, along with murder rate, is outrageous. As a country, we should see this as a huge issue. Seems to be that our priorities are set on something other than what’s important. Such as, new gun legislation. Latino’s are not only drug trafficking in California. This is happening all over the US, where men and women are being punished for innocent acts. This happening in each and every single one of the States. Page 2 They’re are radical gangs all across the board. What’re they responsible for? They’re poisoning the people of America, with extreme drugs, such as Cocaine and Heroin. These gangs have so much power because the carry what they want. The distribution of drugs is incredible, police men confiscate hundreds and thousands of drugs a month. They lock these gang members away, but when these gang members get out of jail, they...
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...people in the United States. There have been several factors that have served as a contribution to the violence occurring against the woman in Ciudad Juarez. Some blame the drug cartels, some blame the military, some blame the economy, some blame serial killers, but nobody truly understands the violence. The question to these murders has been raised by several individuals, and it is to argue that it is the fault of globalization and industrialization. The contribution of the two nations and its ideas of Globalization have allowed the incidents of disappearances of more women in Ciudad Juarez. Therefore the murders of Ciudad Juarez are not causality, but an issue involving the government both of the United States and Mexico. For decades it has been noted that women are treated unequally and in an unjust matter, but today’s incidents in Juarez have escalated to a higher level of injustice. Bowden says “The violence is increasing day by day, and the murderers, over and over again, turn out to be members of the Mexican Army, who are clearly working with the cartels. When is it not the army carrying out murder, it is gangs, with army and even police support” (Bowden). It is clearly stated that in one way or the other theirs a member of society involve in the crimes, but indeed it is to blame the Mexican government, since they have becomes accomplices of the crime. It could be a possibility that they can stop it and solve the problem, but due to the corruption that exist they...
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...William Shakespeare once said, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon." In American media the same can be said for the Latino culture. In the eyes of the media, some are born Latino, some become Latino, while others have Latino thrust upon them. Latinos in the media include, politicians, actors, activists and criminals. The vast majority of these individuals create their own personification. Their media image is formed by the causes they support, the roles they play and the words they speak. In this regard, these individuals are either "born Latino" or "achieve Latino". In contrast, athletes are often judged before they ever speak to the media. Our perception is formed based on how these individuals are portrayed or personified by the media. For this reason, it can be said that athletes have "Latino thrust upon them". Of all the major sports, Latinos have had the greatest impact on major league baseball. Today nearly 25% of the players in the major leagues were born in Latin America (Berry, 1). As such baseball provides a unique perspective on Latinos in the media. Players rarely provide insight into their personalities rather our perception is based upon what the media wants us to believe. In this regard, baseball media artifacts enable us to see how differently Latinos were personified in the media over time. In the end it will become apparent that while their growth and achievement on the field has escalated, media perceptions have...
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...never did I thought about the cruel and dangerous environment that I would face when crossing the border illegally. When crossing the US border illegally we are risking our lives for a better future. In the border, we had to face many struggles. For example, we put our lives in the hands of a coyote . Sometimes the coyotes are not trust worthy they just care about the money they abandoned people. Not only is the coyote is a problem, but also the delinquents. In the border, there are many organization such as Los Zetas that abuse illegal immigrants. They steal immigrants’ money and sometimes kill them. In our journey to the United States my brothers and I did not encounter gangsters or any drug cartel,...
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...contains the following inactive ingredients: citric acid, D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Green No. 3, sodium benzoate, and water. Methamphetamine Methamphetamine (USAN) also known as metamfetamine (INN),meth, ice, crystal glass, tik, N-methylamphetamine, methylamphetamine, and desoxyephedrine, is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs. Methamphetamine occurs in two enantiomers, dextrorotary and levorotary; dextromethamphetamine possesses the well-known psychostimulant effects of the drug, while levomethamphetamine is CNS-inactive. Although rarely prescribed, dextromethamphetamine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of ADHD and obesity under the trade name Desoxyn, while levomethamphetamine is a non-prescription over-the-counter nasal decongestant. Formulations Methamphetamine hydrochloride tablets contain 5 mg of methamphetamine hydrochloride, USP for oral administration. Inactive Ingredients Corn starch, lactose monohydrate, stearic acid and talc. Cannabis Cannabis, also known as marijuana (from the Mexican Spanish marihuana), and by other names, is a preparation of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a...
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...Sociology 25 Wednesdays 3:30pm Drug Use and Abuse I was born in East Los Angeles, and I grew up surrounded by the Mexican culture. Not only were the "fiestas" big, full of joy and love, but there wasn't a party where you wouldn't see a man walking in with a twenty-four of coronas and a bottle of tequila to drink while singing along to the rancheras. The party never stopped until you had a bunch of machos tripping over their own two feet. Words quickly turned into slurs, women endured being disrespected, and fights always broke out. If that wasn't a good enough reason, the party wasn't over until the last drop of beer was taken. Having to grow up surrounded by drunk's made me realize that alcohol wasn't for me. This is how it always begins, it starts with celebrations like your best friends marriage anniversary, or your son graduating high school. Then it turns into drinking socially and before you know it you're drinking uncontrollably, and you welcome any excuse to drink. That's what I witnessed with my uncle. He started of with a successful life living what every other immigrant can only dream off. He was a web-designer and owned a house. He had a beautiful family who supported him in everything. But suddenly everything seemed to turn upside down. My family were always close. But just like everybody else I had a favorite uncle. So I spent a lot of time around him. As far as I can remember my uncle never had empty hands. His right hand was always holding...
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