Around 100,000 people have died in Mexico's drug wars since 2006. Every week there are bodies dumped somewhere. In some cases there have been large massacres of civilians, in 2010 Los Zetas shot 72 immigrants. In 2011 they repeated it, except it was 193 people that time, and they forced them to fight each other to death. Another time they went to a casino in Monterrey, locked the doors, shot people and set it on fire, killing 52...

Unfortunately Mexico has not been able to stop this, according to Wikipedia it is still a third-world (or nowadays what we call "a developing") country. In the first week of 2012 criminals stole 1.8 million barrels of oil from state company Pemex...

So here is my 3-step plan that would help Mexico.



1. American Military Intervention

Why is America fighting in Afghanistan? There are larger problems close to home. America should be helping Mexican forces.

Believe it or not, Mexico has no dedicated bomber aircraft or attack helicopters. Their air force mostly consists of transport planes, and propellor driven planes...

America could help by bombing suspected cartel operations and locations. In addition American satellites could pinpoint these targets. America has many bombers which aren't even being used right now.






Also America could send in many tanks, they have over 9000 Abrams.




Also troops could be deployed in cities across Mexico to search for cartel members and keep the peace.






With 100,000 dead I'm surprised Mexico hasn't asked the US to intervene already.




2. Bring back the death penalty

Mexico apparently does not have a death penalty. This is a problem, because there are apparently at least 100,000 cartel foot soldiers.

That is too many people to jail for life and they could escape anyways. So the only practical way to deal with them is to hang them or shoot them, so Mexico needs to reinstate the capital punishment.



3. Stop the problem at the source

The cartels can only operate when people buy their drugs... so people purchasing narcotics should be dealt with very seriously.

In my opinion, either death or life imprisonment for those caught with "hard drugs" - for small amounts of marijuana, maybe 15 years without parole.





In return for helping, maybe the Americans could have half the profits from the Pemex oil company.


What are your thoughts on this problem?

Sis you think the US is gonna step in without it having some kind of monetary benefit for itself

Wasting jail space and efforts and money while they're our murderers and rapists out there like REAL crime. 15 years for some WEED? This is America, not some third world twisted country.

Mexican law doesn't allow any type of military intervention though
And besides most of the drugs are consumed by americans and almost every gun in Mexico is imported from the US

That is why at the bottom I added "in return for helping maybe the US could have half the profits from the Pemex oil company"

It's just "getting some weed" to American kids, but they are directly supporting cartels killing people. So yes, 15 years is appropriate in my opinion.


They could easily change the laws if they wanted to!

And also most guns aren't from the US, lots of guns are from the US - but most guns are from South America or Mexican armories

This.
And do you really think american troops will end this? lol I'm pretty sure you don't know how big this is. I really want it to end tho, I love my country and I wish it were safer

death for hard drugs? everyone I know would be dead

maybe they should just make them legal, that would solve everything. The government has no right to tell people what they can and can't put in their bodies

Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' teas, with less baby-eating. I think. It was too long to read and I got lost in the pictures.

Wtf

Honestly the biggest problem is the ignorance here
I've met tons of people who praise these people or they aspire to be like them

Just no.

Just look at our president

How many times was the word "apparently" used in these quick, easy steps?