Online Published on 03 August, 2022.
Much of the traffic in narcotics in the United States originates in Mexico where drug cartels have proliferated and benefitted from the collapse of the Colombian ones at the end of the last century. The article traces the history of these Mexican criminal organizations and analyses their conflicts and their complex and ambivalent connections with Mexican state institutions and officials and with the US arms business. The article points out that there is no easy all round solution to this disease which affects all areas of the Mexican state and economy.
