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This action is regarded as the first major deployment of government forces against cartels, and is generally viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war. [63] As time passed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign.
Violence continues to rage more than a decade after the Mexican government launched a war against drug cartels.
Despite the Mexican government’s high-profile arrests, such as that of Ovidio Guzmán, son of the notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, these efforts have remained sporadic and largely symbolic. They failed to disrupt the cartels’ operations or fentanyl production and trafficking in any significant way.
Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.
Mexican law enforcement have struggled to curb drug-related violence between criminal organizations and government forces. Learn about the origins of the violence and what is happening now.
This is regarded as the first major retaliation made against the cartel violence, and viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war between the government and the drug cartels. [1] As time passed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which as of 2008 there were about 45,000 troops involved along with state and ...
Los Zetas (pronounced [los ˈsetas], Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate, known as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. [17][18][19][20][21] They are known for engaging in brutally violent "shock and awe" tactics such as beheadings, torture, and indiscriminate murder. [22] .
Here’s a look at the Mexican Drug War. The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006. At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for...
Although there exist a rich body of literature that has examined the failures of Mexico’s anti-drug policies, most of these works have focused on these policies’ most recent iteration; namely, the war on drugs launched by president Felipe Calderón (2006–2012) and continued – with little to no change – by presidents Enrique Peña ...
U.S. officials say they've identified and infiltrated the Mexican drug organization that's largely responsible for the fentanyl crisis killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.