Lucas Pomerleau

Mr. Fronk
World Regional Geography 9
3/30/16
1. Most Mexicans believe that the responsibility for the drug traffic between the two
countries falls squarely on the existence of a multibillion dollar market in the United
States. Given the acknowledged unpopularity of the Mexican government today and the
traditional tendency of many Mexicans to blame their own authorities for every calamity
under the sun, the number of people faulting the United States is quite high.
2. In theory at least, there are only two relatively short-term policies for dealing with drug
abuse: draconian, widespread repression or legalization. But white middle-class
Americans would never accept the costly, repressive, and intrusive operations that a truly
drastic crackdown on drug consumption and addiction would entail if it meant testing and
patrolling suburban neighborhoods and schools as well as Wall Street firms. Conversely,
legalization, in addition to being politically unthinkably in the present state of American
public opinion would undoubtedly meet stiff resistance from black leaders.
3. Yes, Mexico has tried in many way to stop the drug trafficking. Mexico has had an
eradication campaign, that concentrated in the states of Sinaloa, Durango, and
Chihuahua, proved particularly effective in the 1970s. First, traditionally insufficient
Colombian efforts to redicate marijuana finally began to work, diminishing the supply of
Colombian grass to the United States.
4. The real problem was cocaine. Although the statistical evidence is murky and
inconclusive, a rise in cocaine addiction did take place in the United States as of the
middle of the 1970s. The addiction of cocaine was primarily a problem that faced the

United States. But people convicted Mexico as part of the problem. This was true to an
extent. Mexico does not produce cocaine and is not generally used by cocaine traffickers.
American-shipped cocaine came through Mexico and they were being blamed as owning
the cocaine.
5. Now it had to prevent the entry of goods into Mexico from abroad and their continuing
journey to the United States. It had also found itself in a paradoxical bind. The national
authorities were probably better equipped to interdict the flow of cocaine from Mexico
into the United States than from Latin America into Mexico.
6. The longer the drug stayed in Mexico, the greater the possibilities that the local addiction
would begin to spread and that the corrupting influence of the trade would extend to
those sectors of the Mexican security machinery and society previously untouched by
drug-related corruption.
7. The local drug lords are viewed as modern-day Robin Hoods who bring prosperity to
their communities while getting back at the gringos all place the United States in a
situation common for Mexico but totally unprecedented for American authorities.
8. Perhaps the only way to bring about a substantial drop in drug exports from Mexico in
the United States is by committing the armed forces to drug enforcement on much wider
scale.
9. The only increase in American aid which could make a major difference to the United
States would have to come in the field of cocaine interdiction. But such assistance would
probably entail the U.S. participation in patrolling the Mexican side of the border and
Mexican airspace and coastlines.
10. The United States has the drug problem.
11. One hundred percent of the procedures output is exported, and all of Mexicos drug
exports go to the United States.
12. It is $175 billion GNP.