EL PASO JUAREZ DRUG VIOLENCE Aaron Valle WAR

EL PASO JUAREZ DRUG VIOLENCE Aaron Valle

WAR ON DRUGS

DRUG TRAFFICKING Mexico is descending into widespread and indiscriminate violence.

The country has certainly seen a big rise in drug violence, with cartels fighting for control of major narcotics shipment routes -- especially at the U. S. border and near major seaports and highways -- and branching into kidnapping, extortion and other illicit activities.

Ciudad Juarez, in particular, has been the scene of major battles between two crime organizations and accounted for nearly a third of drug-linked deaths last year.

The violence is not as widespread or as random as it may appear. Though civilians with no evident ties to the drug trade have been killed in the crossfire and occasionally targeted, drug-related deaths are concentrated among the traffickers.

Mexican drug violence is spilling over into the United States.

Despite the violent confrontations between drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico, there has been little of the same spectacular violence on the American side of the border, even though the cartels operate with U. S. -based distribution networks. El Paso, one of the least violent cities in the United States, sits right across from Ciudad Juarez, the most violent in Mexico.

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was once known as the murder capital of the world. Back in 2010, at the height of cartel violence, the city averaged 8. 5 killings per day.

The city of El Paso has ranked as the safest city in America, but Juarez violence has slowly crossed to El Paso

Cartels have slowly moved into the United States either to expand their organization or just simply to go into hiding because they are in the “hit list” which means they are going to get killed.

In interstate I-10 in El Paso, TX 2 highway billboards had messages with mannequins hanging from them.

Mexican Cartels do that in Mexico. They leave a messages and hanging bodies. The bodies are real and the message too, so the billboards were messages to someone or some group of people who have not cooperate with the cartels and to established that if you cross them you will get killed.

The drug trafficking in the US is going to continue. People from the US are being affected and it will not stop until the cartel leaders are captured.

The cartels run a multi-million operation and they wont stop operating even if they die. Someone is already to take their spot, usually is their sons, is like a family business.

SO WE NEED TO…

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