Mexican Drug Cartels Why Are They So Horrible - 884 Words

Mexican Drug Cartels: Why are they so horrible? Drug Cartels are organizations of people of different backgrounds who manufacture drugs and join forces to beat any competition when selling their products, which consist of marijuana, cocaine, and stolen oil and other drugs (Ioan). They’ll stop at nothing to beat their competition, that means even if they have to kill or claim the lives of the innocent to get their way. They are mainly established in Mexico because of the corruptness of the country, ranging from law enforcement to government officials. NPR staff stated that â€Å"Over the past five years, the Mexican drug war has claimed the lives of an estimated 40,000 civilians and drug traffickers† (NPR staff). Cartels in and out of the US†¦show more content†¦They’ve started kidnapping people and holding them for ransom, but they end up executing them in the end . They’ve also increased their organizations by taking over the cities closes to the Mexican border so that they can increase their drug exports to the U.S more easily. Some of the states taken over by the cartels in Mexico are Tijuana and Sinaloa. Cartels’ assassinating someone in Mexico has become common in the Mexican news (Duff). It’s no surprise to the locals when they hear that more people have died at the hands of cartels. But the murders have had an impact on Mexican government officials and police officers. They’ve spread fear among the public and the government of Mexico with their gruesome murders that they broadcast on websites such as YouTube (Rosenberg). They make the victims confess about the affiliation they had with the cartels and what illegal activities they’ve taken part in while recording them, and they’re beaten and tortured to confess and then their executed after confessing. The cartels leave messages with the dead bodies for others to find to warn them about trying to get in their way (Rosenberg). One of the cartels that is best known for doing this is Los Zetas (Duff). They are the biggest cartel in Mexico and they are the most vicious when it comes to murders because of the way that they torture and then kill the victims. They kidnap the most people in Mexico and record