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Arresting or killing “key” cartel players “does not significantly impact drug trafficking flow” into the United States, according to a newly leaked government memo.
What does affect the flow of drugs into the U.S.? Crop cycles and religious holidays.
Since 2006, the United States and Mexico have been operating under the assumption that capturing or killing the heads of the cartels would cripple their organizations. The drug-related murder count (as many as 43,000 people in five years) and the fact that two-thirds of Mexico’s most wanted are either dead or in jail appear to be the only discernible results of that strategy.
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So, at the same time the U.S. and Mexico have put more pressure on the cartels (instigating the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people in the process), the cartels have been trafficking more drugs into the U.S., and claiming more turf in U.S. markets.
This strategy isn’t working.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherv...killing-cartel-leaders-doesnt-slow-drugs.html
What does affect the flow of drugs into the U.S.? Crop cycles and religious holidays.
Since 2006, the United States and Mexico have been operating under the assumption that capturing or killing the heads of the cartels would cripple their organizations. The drug-related murder count (as many as 43,000 people in five years) and the fact that two-thirds of Mexico’s most wanted are either dead or in jail appear to be the only discernible results of that strategy.
. . .
So, at the same time the U.S. and Mexico have put more pressure on the cartels (instigating the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people in the process), the cartels have been trafficking more drugs into the U.S., and claiming more turf in U.S. markets.
This strategy isn’t working.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherv...killing-cartel-leaders-doesnt-slow-drugs.html
