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"It is well that war is so terrible, but we shall grow too fond of it."
-General Robert Edward Lee Fredricks burg, Virginia, 1862.
This is a nation at war with itself. Killings in Mexico, the innocent bystander will ultimately be the loser. Mexico is Fighting two wars. The first war is the struggle between the government of Mexico and the drug cartels. The second, a parallel war, is the fight among the various cartels as they compete for control of lucrative supply routes. Mexico is plagued by drug trafficking to drugs using country and widespread violence Violence along the US-Mexico border and in country skyrocketed since Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico, sent government troops to confront the drug cartels.
Michael V. Hayden, who left as CIA director in January 2009, put Mexico second to Iran as a top national security threat to the United States. His successor, Leon E. Panetta, told reporters at his first news conference that the agency is "paying ... a lot of attention to" Mexico. U.S. "war on drugs" including some of the harshest penalties for drug use in the world the percentage of Americans using cocaine, heroin, crack, marijuana and methamphetamines has remained largely steady in recent years, according to the latest National Drug Threat Assessment. Given population growth, the number of users has actually increased to 35 million Americans, including the world's highest use rates of cocaine and marijuana.
So how to achieve major reductions in American demand for illegal drugs, as well as the profitability and criminality it fuels?
According to the Mexican government there are seven drug cartels operating in Mexico. The Mexican government reports that the major cartels Gulf, Sinaloa, and Juárez are present in much of Mexico. The Juárez cartel has been found in 21 Mexican states and its principle bases are: Culiacán, Sinaloa; Monterrey, Nuevo León; the cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua; Mexico City;Guadalajara, Jalisco; Cuernavaca, Morelos; and Cancún, Quintana Roo.
The Sinaloa cartel has a presence in 17 states, with important centers in Mexico City; Tepic, Nayarit; Toluca and Cuautitlán, Mexico State; and most of the state of Sinaloa. The Gulf cartel is present in 13 states with important areas of operation in the cities of
Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Ale man, Reynosa, and Matamoros in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The Gulf cartel also has important operations in Monterrey in Nuevo Leon and Morelia in Michoacán. In addition, the Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 states with important areas of operation in Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Ensenada in Baja California and in parts of Sinaloa.
Homicide rates are typically quoted as per 100,000 people per year. Mexico's murder rate has fallen sharply from a decade ago. The National Public Security System reports that in 2008, the most recent year with available data, 12 people per 100,000 were the victims of murder. In 1997, the number was 17. In the late 1980s, the murder rate hovered near 20, according to the National Statistics and Geographic Institute. This was higher than in the United States (5.6), but considerably lower than in much of the rest of Latin America, including El Salvador (58), Venezuela (48), Colombia (37), and Brazil (25). Just see the picture violence related death in Mexico, in 2006, 2,100 drug-related killings took place; in 2007 the number rose to 2,700; in 2008 to 5,660; and in 2009, 7000 people dare dead. Gang violence has continued surging this year, with 4,565 people killed between January and may In 2010 just (5 months).
Kidnappings in Mexico have fallen from 1.1 per 100,000 people in 1997 to 0.8 in 2008 -- though the numbers are increasing again. Evidence of the spillage of Mexico's problems into the United States abounds. The Mexican drug cartel violence has turned Phoenix into a kidnapping capital. Except for Mexico City, Phoenix last year had more kidnappings than any city worldwide. As for the regional comparison, though reliable data is hard to come by given that some victims choose not to report it, kidnapping rates in Venezuela have increased dramatically in recent years to an estimated 2.4 per 100,000 people. Colombia's rate has declined dramatically in recent years, from a high of 8.9 in 2000 to just 0.5 in 2009.
About 50,000 troops and federal police are actively involved in Mexico's war on drugs. Mexico 633 police men and around 100 troops are dead in war on drugs. Mexico has spent $6.5 billion on top of its normal public security budget, but that falls short of the $10 billion Mexican drug gangs bring in annually, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said.
24TH May 2010, the president of Mexico addressed a joint session of the United States Congress, There is one issue where Mexico needs your cooperation. And that is stopping the flow of assault weapons and other deadly arms across the border, Calderon said to a standing ovation from U.S. lawmakers. Calderon said the increase in violence in Mexico had coincided with the 2004 lifting of a U.S. assault weapons ban. Calderon said he respects Americans Second Amendment right to bear arms, but said many of the guns are getting into the hands of criminals. Mexico has seized around 75,000 guns and assault weapons in the last three years, Calderon said. He said more than 80 percent of them came from the United States, and noted there were more than 7,000 gun shops along the border.
Mexican authorities give to U.S. authorities to trace turn out to be from the United States the also oft-quoted claim that 2,000 assault rifles cross into Mexico every day. If true, this would mean that more than 2 million weapons have entered Mexico just since Calderon has been in office.
USA has 90 Guns per 100 People. Yemen has 61Guns per 100 People. Finland has 56 Guns per 100 People. Switzerland has 46 Guns per 100 People. Iraq has 39 Guns per 100 People. Serbia has 38 Guns per 100 People. France has 36 Guns per 100 People. Canada has 31Guns per 100 People. Sweden has 31 Guns per 100 People. Austria has 31 Guns per 100 People. Germany has 30 Guns per 100 People. Saudi Arabia has 26 Guns per 100 People.Grece has 23 Guns per 100 People. Angola has 21Guns per 100 People. Thailand has 19 Guns per 100 People. Australia has 15 Guns per 100 People. Mexico has 15 Guns per 100 People. Pakistan has 12 Guns per 100 People.
USA Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton admitted publicly that an insatiable demand by Americans for illegal drugs in the U.S., along with easy and cheap access to powerful hand guns and assault rifles are fueling the drug cartel violence at the U.S. Mexican border. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border [to Mexico, from the U.S.] to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, and innocent people who trapped between law enforcement agencies and these cartels.
Domestic drug consumption is increasing in Mexico.
It is estimated that 3.5 million Mexicans have used narcotics and that nearly 600,000 have become dependent drug consumers. Some observers argue that the adoption of the narcomenudeo law could result in higher levels of recreational use.
Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Michoacan and Baja California were the five most violent states in Mexico the worst-hit regions were in northern areas near the 3,200-kilometre US border. The government report said Chihuahua State was Mexico's hardest-hit state, with 6,757 people killed. According to a government report, Nearly 24,700 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since the launch of a government crackdown on drug gangs at the end of 2006.
Drug violence has spilled into the city's schools, playgrounds and streets and hard hits are a child in thats violence. Since 2006 more than 1,300 children have died in drug-related violence, according to the Mexican secretary of defence.Meanwhile Mexico's National Institute of Criminal Science says the fastest growing rates of drug addiction are among children from 12 to 17 years old.
After children the 2nd most hard hit are Ambulance workers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, are under constant threat as drug gangs battle each other for territory. The situation has grown so dangerous that paramedics have been ordered to wait for police to arrive at a crime scene before attending a call. Gunmen have even been known to follow wounded patients from ambulances to emergency rooms to finish them off. More than 300 hundred Paramedics staff has been dead since 2006.
According to officials from the Mexican police and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), said in April 2010 that Three Mexican drug cartels have joined forces to take on a rival gang in move that has fuelled bloody battles along the Texas border, the Gulf and La Familia cartels - formerly bitter rivals - had formed an alliance to fight the Zetas in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organization, is also believed to have joined the alliance against the Zetas, whose rise to power has come to threaten all three of the cartels. The pact is believed to have followed a break between the Gulf cartel and the Zetas gang, which was first, set up in the 1990s as a group of Special Forces hit men for the Gulf but quickly began to rival its creator. The Tijuana cartel formed an alliance with The Gulf cartel as a result of prison negotiations by their leaders. Several cartels havealso formed an alliance known as "The Federation." The Federation is led by representatives of the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Valencia cartels.
Every year, the United States illegally imports more than 200 metric tons of cocaine, 1,500 metric tons of marijuana, 15 metric tons of heroin, and 20 metric tons of methamphetamines. The more than $50 billion it has spent on interdiction efforts over the past quarter-century have barely made a dent in this demand. Up to 80 percent of US Street meth now originates in Mexico. It was in 2003 that Mexican drug lords in the border town of Tijuana moved their meth factories north to start churning out cheap supplies to California, funneling it throughout America along established drug routes like Interstate 5, the main motorway north to the Canadian border. Imports of the substance in cold medicines have jumped from 66 to 224 tons in the past five years - roughly double what Mexico needs to meet the legitimate demands of cold and allergy sufferers.
The total number of users in the Americas far outweighs other substances, with users estimated at 190 million. Mexico is responsible for producing 15,800 metric tons of Cannabis, being topped only by Paraguay, (16,500 metric tons).
The traffickers who move drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border keep nearly a quarter of the retail price of each kilo of cocaine, which can be bought in Colombia for $1,700 and sold to a wholesaler in the United States for $25,000. Over the past 25 years, the total earnings of the drug trade in Mexico have probably increased tenfold, while the number of organizations reaping the profits has remained small -- as of 2006, six Mexican cartels controlled 90 percent of the United States' illicit drug imports.
According to the Mexican daily La Voz de la Frontera, the INCBs annual report states that Mexico produced over 10,000 tons of marijuana in 2005, in contrast to the 4,500 tons produced in the United States, making the former the regions largest supplier of marijuana. Other reports indicate that the combined worth of the marijuana and cocaine being transported from Mexico into the U.S. each year has reached an estimated $50 billion. Major crossing points for these drugs are to be found in Arizona, California and Texas.
In 2001 Mexican authority eradicated 19,115 ha Opium ,2002-19,115,2003-20,034,2004-15,925,2005-21,609,2006-16,889,2007-11,102,2008- 12,035 hacter,2009-11,235 ha,total production in MTwas,2001-71MT,2002-58,2003-101,2004-73,2005-71,2006-110,2007,145,2008-149 MT,2009-170MT.Total heroin produced in Mexico from 2001-2009.
In2001-7MT,2002-5,2003-12,2004-9,2005-8,2006-13,2007-15,2008-18,2009-20MT Heroin produced. Opium poppy cultivation more than doubled to 15,000 hectares (ha) as of September 2009 from 6,900 in 2008the highest level of production ever estimated in Mexico and all of Latin America combined.
In 2009-14,220 ha ,2008, the Mexican military eradicated 15,756 hectares of cannabis, as compared to 22,348 hectares eradicated in calendar year 2007,2006-.30,162,2005-30,842,2004-30,845,2003-36,585,2002-30775,2001-28690 ha .total production of Cannabis was 2001-7400 MT,2002-7,900,2003-13,500,2004-10,440,2005-10,100,2006-15-500,2007,15600,2008-15800,2009-16700MT. Cannabis production increased 35 percent to 12,000 ha from 8,900 in 2008.
highest level since 1992.Total Cocaine seized in Mexico from 2001-2009 in MT.2001-30 MT,2002-12,2003-21,2004-27,2005-30,200621,2007-48,2008-19,2009-22 MT Cocaine HCL is seized in Mexico. Total Cannabis seized in MT DURING 2000-2009. 2000-1,839 .2002-1,633,2003-2,248,2004-2,208,2005-1748,2006-1902,2007-2,194,2008,1,650,2009-1,550 MT.Total Opium GUM seized in Mexico during 2001-2009 periods. In 2001-516 KG ,2002-310kg,2003-198,2004-464,2005275,2006-75,2007-292,2008-168,2009,310kg.
Total Heroines Seized in Mexico during 2001-2009 periods in KG.2001-269,2002-282,2003-306,2004-302,2005-459,2006-351,2007-298,2008-197,2009-207KG Heroin is seized by military of Mexico. Total Methamphetamine (kg) Seized in Mexico during 2001-2009 Periods.2001-400 kg,2002-457,2003-751,2004-951,2005979,2006-753,2007-932-2008-341,2009,275kg.Total Labs Destroyed in Mexico DURING 2001-2009 Periods Total Labs Destroyed by law enforcement agencies in Mexico during 2001-2009 .2001-28,2002-13,2003-22,2004-23,2005-39,2006-31,2007-32,2008-19,2009-17.
More than 125,000 drug suspects have been detained since 2006 according to Fernando Gomez Montt, the interior minister, confirmed in a news conference in April 2010.In Mexico Arrests/Detentions Total from 2001-2009,2001-9,973,2002-7,055,2003-8,85,2004-18,943,2005-19,222,2006-11,579,2007-19384,2008-26,947,2009-36,200. Foreigners arrested during 2001-2009,2001-189,2002-125,2003-163,2004-180,2005-146,2006-207,2007295,2008-376,2009-420 .
U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico's cartels, and at least 19 Americans were killed in 2008.Also, more than 200 Americans have been killed in Mexico since 2004. The number of U.S. citizens killed in Mexico has more than doubled to 79 in 2009 from 35 in 2007
The United States provides counter narcotics assistance to Mexico through the International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) account. Annual figures on INCLE assistance to Mexico. In FY 2002-$37.0 Million,2003-12.0 M,2004-$37.0M,2005-$39.7M,2006-$39.6M,2007-$36.7M,2008-427.8Million dollars.
When the Mérida Initiative was drafted in 2008, two years after President Calderón declared the countrys war on drugs, the U.S. government spent some $400 million in Mexico to combat criminal groups linked to the drug trade. Most of those early funds went to providing the Mexican government with military supplies that would help undermine cartel-related activities. From 2008 to 2010, the U.S. spent around $1.3 billion providing equipment and training to Mexican and Central American forces in an effort to interdict the drug traffickers activities. The Merida initiative, which provides $1.4 billion over three years for the US to assist the Mexican government with training, equipment and intelligence, has so far failed to make a difference. Here are a few of the latest developments in Mexico's drug war.
In 2009, Mexico probably made more money in the drug trade than it did in its single largest export industry: oil. One study, noted by Global Envision, reported that the loss of the drug business would shrink Mexicos economy by 63 percent. Others attribute as much as 20% of Mexicos GDP to this industry. Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola claims that cartels make three times as many profits as Mexicos 500 largest companies combined. As of the late 1990s, roughly 300,000 peasants were employed in drug production. The National Farm Workers Union (UNTA) estimates a number around 600,000 to one Million in 2010.
In the last ten years, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statistics indicate that the percentage of Latin American non-U.S. citizens that were federally arrested in the U.S. for illegal drug offenses has increased from the low 20 percentile to over 30 percent as of 2003. For example, in 1999, regarding all federal drug arrests, 26.8% were non-U.S. citizens and 45.5% were Hispanic. Other DOJ BJS statistics showed that "in addition to immigration offenses, U.S. attorneys prosecuted an increased number of non-citizens for other crimes, especially for drug trafficking, which increased from 1,799 cases in 1985 to 7,803 in 2000."
In the 1980s, the entire Federal Security Directorate was disbanded because it had been completely taken over by the drug cartels. The U.S. ambassador at the time, John Gavin, specifically accused several state governors and cabinet members of drug trafficking in private conversations with President Miguel de la Madrid.
In 1998, President Ernesto Zedillo's newly appointed drug czar, Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, was arrested barely two months after being appointed, when U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey, after first applauding Gutiérrez Rebollo, discovered that his Mexican counterpart worked for the cartels.
In October 2008, an elite unit within the federal Attorney Generals office for Special Investigations of Organized Crime (SIEDO) was implicated in a scandal involving payoffs for sensitive information about antidrug activities, with at least 35 officials fired or arrested. In November 2008, the former head of SIEDO was arrested and accused of accepting bribes from a drug cartel. The former investigative agency within the PGR, the Federal Agency of Investigations (AFI), which was created in 2001, was also widely criticized for corruption by 2005 and partially disbanded in June 2009. police corruption has been a major problem at all levels of the Mexican policing system, including the state and federal police.
In 2007, Mexico extradited eighty-three alleged criminals to the United States, included the head of the Gulf Cartel. This marks a significant increase over the sixty-three extraditions in 2006, according to the Congressional Research Service. Over 107 people were extradited from Mexico to the U.S. in 2009, breaking 2008s record of 95. Notable cases from the past year include Mexican nationals Miguel Caro Quintero, wanted for drug trafficking in Colorado and Arizona, and Oscar Escajeda Candelaria, wanted for cocaine and marijuana trafficking in Texas, Ever Villafane Martinez, a Colombian National wanted on federal narcotics trafficking and money laundering charges.
Most Important do not compare Pakistan situation with Mexico. We need policies that support Mexican Institutions not encourages more violence and corruption. There is no doubt that Mexican organized crime would not be as successful in moving drugs into the United States without distribution networks, safe houses, and ways to launder money in the United States. In other words, the problem is already in the interior of the United States it is not simply a border issue.
Part 2nd about Mexicans cartel relation with Latin American group and American groups
Usman Karim Based in Lahore Pakistan lmno25@hotmail.com
-General Robert Edward Lee Fredricks burg, Virginia, 1862.
This is a nation at war with itself. Killings in Mexico, the innocent bystander will ultimately be the loser. Mexico is Fighting two wars. The first war is the struggle between the government of Mexico and the drug cartels. The second, a parallel war, is the fight among the various cartels as they compete for control of lucrative supply routes. Mexico is plagued by drug trafficking to drugs using country and widespread violence Violence along the US-Mexico border and in country skyrocketed since Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico, sent government troops to confront the drug cartels.
Michael V. Hayden, who left as CIA director in January 2009, put Mexico second to Iran as a top national security threat to the United States. His successor, Leon E. Panetta, told reporters at his first news conference that the agency is "paying ... a lot of attention to" Mexico. U.S. "war on drugs" including some of the harshest penalties for drug use in the world the percentage of Americans using cocaine, heroin, crack, marijuana and methamphetamines has remained largely steady in recent years, according to the latest National Drug Threat Assessment. Given population growth, the number of users has actually increased to 35 million Americans, including the world's highest use rates of cocaine and marijuana.
So how to achieve major reductions in American demand for illegal drugs, as well as the profitability and criminality it fuels?
According to the Mexican government there are seven drug cartels operating in Mexico. The Mexican government reports that the major cartels Gulf, Sinaloa, and Juárez are present in much of Mexico. The Juárez cartel has been found in 21 Mexican states and its principle bases are: Culiacán, Sinaloa; Monterrey, Nuevo León; the cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Ojinaga, Chihuahua; Mexico City;Guadalajara, Jalisco; Cuernavaca, Morelos; and Cancún, Quintana Roo.
The Sinaloa cartel has a presence in 17 states, with important centers in Mexico City; Tepic, Nayarit; Toluca and Cuautitlán, Mexico State; and most of the state of Sinaloa. The Gulf cartel is present in 13 states with important areas of operation in the cities of
Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Ale man, Reynosa, and Matamoros in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The Gulf cartel also has important operations in Monterrey in Nuevo Leon and Morelia in Michoacán. In addition, the Tijuana cartel is present in at least 15 states with important areas of operation in Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Ensenada in Baja California and in parts of Sinaloa.
Homicide rates are typically quoted as per 100,000 people per year. Mexico's murder rate has fallen sharply from a decade ago. The National Public Security System reports that in 2008, the most recent year with available data, 12 people per 100,000 were the victims of murder. In 1997, the number was 17. In the late 1980s, the murder rate hovered near 20, according to the National Statistics and Geographic Institute. This was higher than in the United States (5.6), but considerably lower than in much of the rest of Latin America, including El Salvador (58), Venezuela (48), Colombia (37), and Brazil (25). Just see the picture violence related death in Mexico, in 2006, 2,100 drug-related killings took place; in 2007 the number rose to 2,700; in 2008 to 5,660; and in 2009, 7000 people dare dead. Gang violence has continued surging this year, with 4,565 people killed between January and may In 2010 just (5 months).
Kidnappings in Mexico have fallen from 1.1 per 100,000 people in 1997 to 0.8 in 2008 -- though the numbers are increasing again. Evidence of the spillage of Mexico's problems into the United States abounds. The Mexican drug cartel violence has turned Phoenix into a kidnapping capital. Except for Mexico City, Phoenix last year had more kidnappings than any city worldwide. As for the regional comparison, though reliable data is hard to come by given that some victims choose not to report it, kidnapping rates in Venezuela have increased dramatically in recent years to an estimated 2.4 per 100,000 people. Colombia's rate has declined dramatically in recent years, from a high of 8.9 in 2000 to just 0.5 in 2009.
About 50,000 troops and federal police are actively involved in Mexico's war on drugs. Mexico 633 police men and around 100 troops are dead in war on drugs. Mexico has spent $6.5 billion on top of its normal public security budget, but that falls short of the $10 billion Mexican drug gangs bring in annually, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said.
24TH May 2010, the president of Mexico addressed a joint session of the United States Congress, There is one issue where Mexico needs your cooperation. And that is stopping the flow of assault weapons and other deadly arms across the border, Calderon said to a standing ovation from U.S. lawmakers. Calderon said the increase in violence in Mexico had coincided with the 2004 lifting of a U.S. assault weapons ban. Calderon said he respects Americans Second Amendment right to bear arms, but said many of the guns are getting into the hands of criminals. Mexico has seized around 75,000 guns and assault weapons in the last three years, Calderon said. He said more than 80 percent of them came from the United States, and noted there were more than 7,000 gun shops along the border.
Mexican authorities give to U.S. authorities to trace turn out to be from the United States the also oft-quoted claim that 2,000 assault rifles cross into Mexico every day. If true, this would mean that more than 2 million weapons have entered Mexico just since Calderon has been in office.
USA has 90 Guns per 100 People. Yemen has 61Guns per 100 People. Finland has 56 Guns per 100 People. Switzerland has 46 Guns per 100 People. Iraq has 39 Guns per 100 People. Serbia has 38 Guns per 100 People. France has 36 Guns per 100 People. Canada has 31Guns per 100 People. Sweden has 31 Guns per 100 People. Austria has 31 Guns per 100 People. Germany has 30 Guns per 100 People. Saudi Arabia has 26 Guns per 100 People.Grece has 23 Guns per 100 People. Angola has 21Guns per 100 People. Thailand has 19 Guns per 100 People. Australia has 15 Guns per 100 People. Mexico has 15 Guns per 100 People. Pakistan has 12 Guns per 100 People.
USA Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton admitted publicly that an insatiable demand by Americans for illegal drugs in the U.S., along with easy and cheap access to powerful hand guns and assault rifles are fueling the drug cartel violence at the U.S. Mexican border. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border [to Mexico, from the U.S.] to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, and innocent people who trapped between law enforcement agencies and these cartels.
Domestic drug consumption is increasing in Mexico.
It is estimated that 3.5 million Mexicans have used narcotics and that nearly 600,000 have become dependent drug consumers. Some observers argue that the adoption of the narcomenudeo law could result in higher levels of recreational use.
Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Michoacan and Baja California were the five most violent states in Mexico the worst-hit regions were in northern areas near the 3,200-kilometre US border. The government report said Chihuahua State was Mexico's hardest-hit state, with 6,757 people killed. According to a government report, Nearly 24,700 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since the launch of a government crackdown on drug gangs at the end of 2006.
Drug violence has spilled into the city's schools, playgrounds and streets and hard hits are a child in thats violence. Since 2006 more than 1,300 children have died in drug-related violence, according to the Mexican secretary of defence.Meanwhile Mexico's National Institute of Criminal Science says the fastest growing rates of drug addiction are among children from 12 to 17 years old.
After children the 2nd most hard hit are Ambulance workers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, are under constant threat as drug gangs battle each other for territory. The situation has grown so dangerous that paramedics have been ordered to wait for police to arrive at a crime scene before attending a call. Gunmen have even been known to follow wounded patients from ambulances to emergency rooms to finish them off. More than 300 hundred Paramedics staff has been dead since 2006.
According to officials from the Mexican police and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), said in April 2010 that Three Mexican drug cartels have joined forces to take on a rival gang in move that has fuelled bloody battles along the Texas border, the Gulf and La Familia cartels - formerly bitter rivals - had formed an alliance to fight the Zetas in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organization, is also believed to have joined the alliance against the Zetas, whose rise to power has come to threaten all three of the cartels. The pact is believed to have followed a break between the Gulf cartel and the Zetas gang, which was first, set up in the 1990s as a group of Special Forces hit men for the Gulf but quickly began to rival its creator. The Tijuana cartel formed an alliance with The Gulf cartel as a result of prison negotiations by their leaders. Several cartels havealso formed an alliance known as "The Federation." The Federation is led by representatives of the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Valencia cartels.
Every year, the United States illegally imports more than 200 metric tons of cocaine, 1,500 metric tons of marijuana, 15 metric tons of heroin, and 20 metric tons of methamphetamines. The more than $50 billion it has spent on interdiction efforts over the past quarter-century have barely made a dent in this demand. Up to 80 percent of US Street meth now originates in Mexico. It was in 2003 that Mexican drug lords in the border town of Tijuana moved their meth factories north to start churning out cheap supplies to California, funneling it throughout America along established drug routes like Interstate 5, the main motorway north to the Canadian border. Imports of the substance in cold medicines have jumped from 66 to 224 tons in the past five years - roughly double what Mexico needs to meet the legitimate demands of cold and allergy sufferers.
The total number of users in the Americas far outweighs other substances, with users estimated at 190 million. Mexico is responsible for producing 15,800 metric tons of Cannabis, being topped only by Paraguay, (16,500 metric tons).
The traffickers who move drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border keep nearly a quarter of the retail price of each kilo of cocaine, which can be bought in Colombia for $1,700 and sold to a wholesaler in the United States for $25,000. Over the past 25 years, the total earnings of the drug trade in Mexico have probably increased tenfold, while the number of organizations reaping the profits has remained small -- as of 2006, six Mexican cartels controlled 90 percent of the United States' illicit drug imports.
According to the Mexican daily La Voz de la Frontera, the INCBs annual report states that Mexico produced over 10,000 tons of marijuana in 2005, in contrast to the 4,500 tons produced in the United States, making the former the regions largest supplier of marijuana. Other reports indicate that the combined worth of the marijuana and cocaine being transported from Mexico into the U.S. each year has reached an estimated $50 billion. Major crossing points for these drugs are to be found in Arizona, California and Texas.
In 2001 Mexican authority eradicated 19,115 ha Opium ,2002-19,115,2003-20,034,2004-15,925,2005-21,609,2006-16,889,2007-11,102,2008- 12,035 hacter,2009-11,235 ha,total production in MTwas,2001-71MT,2002-58,2003-101,2004-73,2005-71,2006-110,2007,145,2008-149 MT,2009-170MT.Total heroin produced in Mexico from 2001-2009.
In2001-7MT,2002-5,2003-12,2004-9,2005-8,2006-13,2007-15,2008-18,2009-20MT Heroin produced. Opium poppy cultivation more than doubled to 15,000 hectares (ha) as of September 2009 from 6,900 in 2008the highest level of production ever estimated in Mexico and all of Latin America combined.
In 2009-14,220 ha ,2008, the Mexican military eradicated 15,756 hectares of cannabis, as compared to 22,348 hectares eradicated in calendar year 2007,2006-.30,162,2005-30,842,2004-30,845,2003-36,585,2002-30775,2001-28690 ha .total production of Cannabis was 2001-7400 MT,2002-7,900,2003-13,500,2004-10,440,2005-10,100,2006-15-500,2007,15600,2008-15800,2009-16700MT. Cannabis production increased 35 percent to 12,000 ha from 8,900 in 2008.
highest level since 1992.Total Cocaine seized in Mexico from 2001-2009 in MT.2001-30 MT,2002-12,2003-21,2004-27,2005-30,200621,2007-48,2008-19,2009-22 MT Cocaine HCL is seized in Mexico. Total Cannabis seized in MT DURING 2000-2009. 2000-1,839 .2002-1,633,2003-2,248,2004-2,208,2005-1748,2006-1902,2007-2,194,2008,1,650,2009-1,550 MT.Total Opium GUM seized in Mexico during 2001-2009 periods. In 2001-516 KG ,2002-310kg,2003-198,2004-464,2005275,2006-75,2007-292,2008-168,2009,310kg.
Total Heroines Seized in Mexico during 2001-2009 periods in KG.2001-269,2002-282,2003-306,2004-302,2005-459,2006-351,2007-298,2008-197,2009-207KG Heroin is seized by military of Mexico. Total Methamphetamine (kg) Seized in Mexico during 2001-2009 Periods.2001-400 kg,2002-457,2003-751,2004-951,2005979,2006-753,2007-932-2008-341,2009,275kg.Total Labs Destroyed in Mexico DURING 2001-2009 Periods Total Labs Destroyed by law enforcement agencies in Mexico during 2001-2009 .2001-28,2002-13,2003-22,2004-23,2005-39,2006-31,2007-32,2008-19,2009-17.
More than 125,000 drug suspects have been detained since 2006 according to Fernando Gomez Montt, the interior minister, confirmed in a news conference in April 2010.In Mexico Arrests/Detentions Total from 2001-2009,2001-9,973,2002-7,055,2003-8,85,2004-18,943,2005-19,222,2006-11,579,2007-19384,2008-26,947,2009-36,200. Foreigners arrested during 2001-2009,2001-189,2002-125,2003-163,2004-180,2005-146,2006-207,2007295,2008-376,2009-420 .
U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico's cartels, and at least 19 Americans were killed in 2008.Also, more than 200 Americans have been killed in Mexico since 2004. The number of U.S. citizens killed in Mexico has more than doubled to 79 in 2009 from 35 in 2007
The United States provides counter narcotics assistance to Mexico through the International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) account. Annual figures on INCLE assistance to Mexico. In FY 2002-$37.0 Million,2003-12.0 M,2004-$37.0M,2005-$39.7M,2006-$39.6M,2007-$36.7M,2008-427.8Million dollars.
When the Mérida Initiative was drafted in 2008, two years after President Calderón declared the countrys war on drugs, the U.S. government spent some $400 million in Mexico to combat criminal groups linked to the drug trade. Most of those early funds went to providing the Mexican government with military supplies that would help undermine cartel-related activities. From 2008 to 2010, the U.S. spent around $1.3 billion providing equipment and training to Mexican and Central American forces in an effort to interdict the drug traffickers activities. The Merida initiative, which provides $1.4 billion over three years for the US to assist the Mexican government with training, equipment and intelligence, has so far failed to make a difference. Here are a few of the latest developments in Mexico's drug war.
In 2009, Mexico probably made more money in the drug trade than it did in its single largest export industry: oil. One study, noted by Global Envision, reported that the loss of the drug business would shrink Mexicos economy by 63 percent. Others attribute as much as 20% of Mexicos GDP to this industry. Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola claims that cartels make three times as many profits as Mexicos 500 largest companies combined. As of the late 1990s, roughly 300,000 peasants were employed in drug production. The National Farm Workers Union (UNTA) estimates a number around 600,000 to one Million in 2010.
In the last ten years, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statistics indicate that the percentage of Latin American non-U.S. citizens that were federally arrested in the U.S. for illegal drug offenses has increased from the low 20 percentile to over 30 percent as of 2003. For example, in 1999, regarding all federal drug arrests, 26.8% were non-U.S. citizens and 45.5% were Hispanic. Other DOJ BJS statistics showed that "in addition to immigration offenses, U.S. attorneys prosecuted an increased number of non-citizens for other crimes, especially for drug trafficking, which increased from 1,799 cases in 1985 to 7,803 in 2000."
In the 1980s, the entire Federal Security Directorate was disbanded because it had been completely taken over by the drug cartels. The U.S. ambassador at the time, John Gavin, specifically accused several state governors and cabinet members of drug trafficking in private conversations with President Miguel de la Madrid.
In 1998, President Ernesto Zedillo's newly appointed drug czar, Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, was arrested barely two months after being appointed, when U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey, after first applauding Gutiérrez Rebollo, discovered that his Mexican counterpart worked for the cartels.
In October 2008, an elite unit within the federal Attorney Generals office for Special Investigations of Organized Crime (SIEDO) was implicated in a scandal involving payoffs for sensitive information about antidrug activities, with at least 35 officials fired or arrested. In November 2008, the former head of SIEDO was arrested and accused of accepting bribes from a drug cartel. The former investigative agency within the PGR, the Federal Agency of Investigations (AFI), which was created in 2001, was also widely criticized for corruption by 2005 and partially disbanded in June 2009. police corruption has been a major problem at all levels of the Mexican policing system, including the state and federal police.
In 2007, Mexico extradited eighty-three alleged criminals to the United States, included the head of the Gulf Cartel. This marks a significant increase over the sixty-three extraditions in 2006, according to the Congressional Research Service. Over 107 people were extradited from Mexico to the U.S. in 2009, breaking 2008s record of 95. Notable cases from the past year include Mexican nationals Miguel Caro Quintero, wanted for drug trafficking in Colorado and Arizona, and Oscar Escajeda Candelaria, wanted for cocaine and marijuana trafficking in Texas, Ever Villafane Martinez, a Colombian National wanted on federal narcotics trafficking and money laundering charges.
Most Important do not compare Pakistan situation with Mexico. We need policies that support Mexican Institutions not encourages more violence and corruption. There is no doubt that Mexican organized crime would not be as successful in moving drugs into the United States without distribution networks, safe houses, and ways to launder money in the United States. In other words, the problem is already in the interior of the United States it is not simply a border issue.
Part 2nd about Mexicans cartel relation with Latin American group and American groups
Usman Karim Based in Lahore Pakistan lmno25@hotmail.com
No my friend, Mexicanos are actually REGAINING THEIR STOLEN LAND, slowly but surely. 
