Mexico used to be the pioneer among Latin America’s countries in human and natural resources years ago. That condition has started to change when Vicente Fox took his duty as a president of Mexico and Felipe Calderon’s government who could not do any changing condition came afterward. There was load of social problems approaching Mexico, such as: poverty, unemployment, violence, and the world-famous-one drug trafficking. Some researches said that there were more than 40% of poor Mexicans.
Felipe Calderon was making a policy which stated that he would abolish all drugs-related cases in Mexico. He then asked the army to kill all the drug cartels and its company. That was what caused such as drug-related murders. On 12 January 2011, the Mexican government unveiled a new database giving a total of 34,612 people killed over the past four years. This total included suspected drug gang members, members of the security forces as those considered innocent bystanders. The total was a jump of some 4,000 on the previous total.
This research will tell more about drug-related violence since we all know that drug-related violence is the main cause of death in Mexico in these past few years. This was like a vicious circle while unemployment caused poverty, poverty caused stressful, and stressful caused crimes (drugs, homicides, robberies, etc).
Relation between Mexico and the United States of America could be another reason why this drug-related violence happened. Even if the world knows that America and Mexico are close enough in such fields, but some said that Mexicans were forbidden to immigrate to any state of the US. This caused stressing conditions among Mexicans who could not bear to stay in their unsafe country anymore. The youth in Mexico started to use drugs as a way to escape from their problems. This became more like serious condition because some of them were addicted to drugs.
Resty Armenia
research abstraction of Seminar of Latin America
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