How did Mexico get this bad
?
Trump and his "conservative" friends might not like it..but WE (USA) are to blame
we "helped" turn Mexico into a Narco state, once we got rid of Escobar and the Colombian cartels...
along with the NAFTA agreement creating an unfair trade balance with Mexico and the creation of cheap labor and the irradication of farm revenue for mexico...
Borderland Beat: 40 years ago the US sent Mexico into a financial crisis — and it transformed the narcotics industry
Farmers, unable to sustain themselves due to the removal of subsidies and the arrival of competition from US agri-corporations, found the burgeoning market for marijuana and poppies their only avenue to surviving on the land. The army of the urban unemployed gave the cartels a deep pool from which to recruit foot soldiers, and the miserably paid (and eminently corruptible) police and military provided the muscle with which to protect their interests.
The spread of everyday crime — aided by the rapid declension and corruption of local police forces — demoralized civil society, and provided a climate within which grander forms of criminality would flourish.