DRUG CARTELS IN MEXICO
Article 3: Right to life, Liberty, Personal Security
WHAT ARE THEY
Drug cartels are big groups that sell drugs and compete other cartels for drug trade routes. Some of them even do human trafficking.
DRUG CARTEL AREAS IN MEXICO
These are the areas of some of the cartels in Mexico. So based on the picture the biggest territories of cartels are the Sinaloa and los Zetas cartels.
WHAT THEY DO.
The drug cartels in mexico pass the drugs true the border to sell drugs to the u.s. This picture is an example on one of the ways of how they pass the drugs without getting caught.
WHAT SOME PEOPLE ARE DOING.
Some of the towns are against the drug cartels. This is a picture of a town thats defending themselfes against drug cartels.
Los Zetas
In early 2010 the Zetas made public their split from the Gulf Cartel and began a bloody war with Gulf Cartel over control of Northeast Mexico's drug trade routes.The Zetas involved themselves in more than drug trafficking and have also been connected to human trafficking, pipeline trafficked oil theft, extortion, and trading pirated CDs.
Sinaloa Cartel
The cartel was led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was Mexico's most-wanted drug trafficker with an estimated net worth of US$1 billion made him the 1140th richest man in the world and the 55th most powerful, according to his Forbes magazine profile.
La Familia Cartel
La Familia Michoacana was a major Mexican drug cartel based in Michoacán between at least 2006 and 2011.It was formerly allied to the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, but split off and became an independent organization.
WHY SHOULD WE CARE?
We should care about this mexico drug war because we are part of the problem. Since we are giving the drug cartels money and guns for drugs. So we are also responsible for the violence in mexico.