Why Is Mexico So Violent?
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The land of spicy food, Frida Kahlo and great musical performers such as Chavela and Juan Gabriel... but also organized crime. We all already know from several Netflix series the story of the great capos of the Mexican cartels, but rarely do they explain where the narco-violence came from and how successive Mexican governments have tried to deal with it.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Mexican State has been waging a relentless war against drug trafficking and organized crime. Homicide has become part of the daily life of many Mexicans and the situation seems to be getting even worse. The captain at the helm of the Mexican State, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, proposes to solve it by giving more hugs than bullets, which has brought him a lot of criticism.
Why is there still so much violence in Mexico? Are Mexican cartels still so powerful? How much success is AMLO really having on security? In this video we tell you.
The problem isn't the supply, it's the demand.
It's hard to win a war when you're literally funding the adversary.
So legalise and control.
fixing the demand is the best strategy IF were done 20 years ago, right now, its way too late,... all this armed gangster, whom already enjoying dirty money, power n violence. wont suddenly drop their weapon n focuses on avocadoes. they will simply switched to other drugs or other means, kidnaping, extortion, murder for hire, human trafficking's and so on.. any n every path taken, is not going to be simply hard, it would be very bloodyy and very2 hard.
only way to reduce drug use is to address the trauma and social problems that make people want to do drugs in the first place - and even then you will never eliminate drug use so as long as drugs are illegal violence will continue.
Also the celebration of "liberty" expressed through the consumption of drugs, and by extension supplements and other substances where the "safety" and "benefits" are based merely on the word of its advertisers without independent scientific criticism.
American Gun Stores have also sold most of the Weapons the Cartels use.
You're not just Funding them, you're Arming them.
Mexico is my favourite country and I just want to see Mexico prosper, but it seems like they are hampered by their own problems.
What is it about Mexico that makes them your favourite country?
And what about Somalia?
No USA is what keeps Mexico the way it is😊
@@GregMoress
Gotta get dat fentnyl!!
@@cashewnuttel9054 food, culture, landscapes, woman, and history. If Mexico didn't have this cartel problem, it would be beautiful with real freedom!
@@mr.poon.tang.92 If USA is the reason why Mexico is poor, then why doesn't Mexico build a giant wall or dig up an artificial river to keep the USA out?
Stationed in El Paso for nearly four years. The reason the crime rates are so low is cops straight up don’t show for hours when called, the murder rate is low because people disappear all the time and they never find the body out in the dunes.
lmao, no body, no crime.
Do many women go missing? So many women go missing in El Ciudad de Juarez.
Yes they do in el Paso too little buddy@@PG-wz7by
@PG-wz7by to be fair many people go missing in mexico both sexes itd jsut the media for understable reasons wants to focus on womens rights but thry fail to realize everyone is victim to go missing
Agree
i drove my bike 10,000km from coast to coast and back in MX a couple of years ago and never felt like i was in any danger at all, even in Sinaloa. but clearly, there are many problems which is a huge shame since Mexico could easily take over China as the manufacturing hub for the US if it go its shit together.
Yeah. This would be a great boon for both the us and Mexico. Us gets to further reduce its dependence on China and Mexico gets a massive new market to strengthen their economy.
Sad indian noises.
CIA controls drug trafficking
Cartels get richer and usa has the highest rate of Incarceration in the world
Did you visit Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo ,Monterey, Jalisco State, Michoacan state??
@@tholomewplague125 he clearly said "Coast to coast" idiot.
I'm of Mexican heritage and I'm still surprised how many Americans wander around cluelessly through the Mexican country. It's risky, but to each their own. I wouldn't do it.
When I moved to NYC the first thing they taught me was where, when & how to walk. Always alert, and more.
Mario Puzo also wrote a book called “Fools Die”.
He was right.
-Matt’s dad
@@mattgoodmangoodmanlawnmowi2454 I thought Spider-Man protected that city?
@@cashewnuttel9054
No Spiderman is racing Pro Street bike drag racing under the name of Jim McBride.
You have to protect your own *** in NYC.
-Matt’s dad
Been there…
You never been to Mexico so your opinion doesn’t matter and is invalid.
Maybe because there are people who don’t want to live scared of life? I was just in Tijuana this morning- I cut my hair, bought groceries, got gas and went to a book fair. It was very scary (sarcasm). 🤣
I’m a petite female and have been traveling all over Mexico for 30 years, many times alone. Stop being a wimp and don’t worry about those Americans, they are enjoying life and will be fine.
Ultimately the issue boils down to the fact that the Mexican government doesn’t have a way to enforce a monopoly on the use of force.
Been like that since the Independence. Who to say the next Santa Anna is not among the Cartel already?
El Salvador's president is setting a good example now. THOUSANDS of cartel members arrested within weeks. Crime plumets to almost zero. A heavy hand is needed sometimes when the problem is so deeply embedded in the society/culture
united states is way more violent and violent across the world
@@DaggerSecurity meme gangs aren't the same as Mafias
@@DaggerSecurity in 2006 felipe calderón "put " a heavy hand against the cartels, but in reality he was supporting one cartel to and fighting the others , a few weeks ago his public safety secretary Genaro García Luna was found guilty of 5 charges one of them was collusion with cartels.
I lived in Mexico all my life and if you don't get involved in drugs or gangs you don't have to worry too much. I would be more scared about people shooting in schools like in the USA.
Well, Mexico’s murder rate is higher than the USA despite all the mass shootings in the USA, so…
If they can’t find someone, a close relative would do and that’s not just mexico
both are awful incidents
43 students in Iguala, Mexico kidnapped and some of them were tortured alive by skinning them. That does not happen in the US.
Oh yeah make sure to not get involved and you'll be fine. But lets not talk about those innocent Americans who got gunned down in Mexico..
A complex problem has no simple solutions
WOWWWW SO WELL SAID
Right!
This video is oversimplified and wrong.
You cannot correlate "homocides" as only Government vs. Narcos; forgetting Narcos vs. Narcos, neighbors killing neighbors, and men killing women in a culture that routinely says "mothers worthless" (vale madre), a county superficially Catholic and amoral (you can pay the church to erase sins), a country where Narcos ally with the Governments of cities + states + federal law enforcements + National Military + church, yup even the Catholic Church, because Narcos have the money, so much so that small town "Social Services" infomal help to the needy comes from the local well-off Narco family, and Mexican families are HUGE, averaging 70 members.
Mexico, like most Latin American countries, have no real education system. Search for Hispanic or Portuguese Nobel Laureates in the Sciences - almost none, I think due to the illogic of the mandatory use of double negatives which cripples brains trying to understand Math and Logic.
So they think everything is just opinion, and love to bat around Magic Thinking about crystals, undergound rivers, power centers, government-designated Magic Communities ("Pueblos Magicos") and other delusions about how incredibly advanced ancient and Prehispanic MesoAmerican cultures were, but the Spaniards burnt their libraries. OK, so the Mayans did define the number Zero about the same time as Persia...
In the 1990s, VCR movies from Mexico were almost 100% fantasies of narco-violence, so they also glamorized violence into a reality they easily accepted!
Then there's ancient Mexico's fascination with death and skulks mixed with the weird Spanish grammar of a "temporary death" in "está muerto" instead of Es muerto, which would be permanent, but hey, who cares, Narcos have the money to pay off their sins, crimes, and violence against women and swoop up to heaven to drink Tequila with Jesus, listening to Vicente Fernandez, perhaps historiy's most virtuoso male vocalist.
I lived a year 1998 in Cancún and everything was peaceful BECAUSE the governor of Quinana Roo aligned with one narco group. Today, tourists duck for cover as rival groups machine gun each other.
Enjoyable presentation, but you make a simple cartoon out of a deep ongoing social tragedy of ignorance caused by their language and Catholicism, funded by USA's recreational drug users BECAUSE drugs are illegal.
The Starbucks and Marlboro model works, the gateway drugs!
The USA armed the cartels, and its society enjoys the product, and México put the death bodies, so close your mouth about it.
Mexico needs to liberalize its gun laws, there is only one Gun Store in the whole country. Why is El Paso one of the most peaceful cities in the United States and next door Ciudad Juarez in Mexico one of the most violent cities in the world?
Its no problem get a gun in Mexico, cartels much more organised than state institution, like police or judges. Superarmed citizens can't doing nothing without government.
As a Mexican living and working here in my country, the reason why Mexico is violent is not new. Mexico, was the new Spain in the year 1600 until our ancestors decided to became independent in 1810 by 1820 we were free from the Spaniards. Mexico didn't have a Constitución or anything cause it was a brand new country. 25 years later in 1845 from just gaining our independence the United States declared war against Mexico for no reason. Our country didn't have a lot of people neither enough soldiers cause many die in the independence war. against spain. The United States invaded Mexico, took advantage and steal half of our land. Then it was the war against France from 1861- 1867 Napoleon and Maximilian wanted to establish a new government here in Mexico, plus they wanted to destroy the United States but Benito Juárez and the Republican army defeated the French army on 5 de Mayo. In 1910 -1925 was the Mexican revolution, in 1945 Mexico participated in WW2. In the 1980s it was war against the zapatistas. Now days is more like a chess war against the cartels. Is very difficult cause is not like fighting another army, these is a more advance and sophisticated type of war. Cartels are like rattlesnakes, they hide, observed you, camouflage, follow and attack from any angle. If it was a frontal battle of all the Cartels vs Mexican army in a deserted area it would be a different story but the cartels are cowards cause they kill or kidnap unarmed people for profit or cause they belong to a different cartel.
For the U.S, the reason why it invaded was to expand their slave empire which Mexico was in the way of, the U.S invaded through Texas by going against the rules placed by Mexico when they were ALLOWED to enter the territory and help colonize it since Mexico thought they would make a great ally since they too became free from their own imperial rulers. The main rule they had to follow besides being catholic and a few others were NO SLAVES. Mexico abolished slavery at least 4 decades prior before the U.S even decided to toy with thinking about the idea, Mexico assisted many slaves who flee from the U.S which angered them greatly. The U.S refused and flooded the state with slavery and staged fake attacks to provoke the American colonies into illegally invade Mexico and steal land in order to expand slavery and their own power. Both armies clashed and seemed to be at a stalemate for a while but the Mexican empire had the upper hand despite many decided to abandon their posts because of constant wars, the U.S now losing the war, they realized that they cant beat Mexico at a head-on confrontation so they used their navy to go around the entire Mexican armada, Mexico did not have a navy because they did not want to conquer others for they believed in freedom for all. With the Mexican armies focusing their efforts at the front, very few were left to defend the coasts so the U.S were able to easily land and take the capital since there was almost no resistance at all. Taking General Santa Anna (the current leader of Mexico at the time) prisoner, forcing him at gunpoint to surrender the territories of Mexico enriching the Americans and setting Mexico back at least 100 years. Almost immediately after that Americans began to move west to colonize and any Mexican they found they would beat, lynch(their favorite choice), rape, murder, and sometimes enslave them when the opportunity came. The violence and corruption in Mexico today is the result of what they learned from the Americans in the past. The cartels were originally also created by American intelligence operations which then ended up spiraling out of control to what we see now today.
Excellent history!
You should include the factoid that Texas' ear cry "remember the Alamo" makes heroes out of martyrs that SUPPORTED SLAVERY.
What do you think about this?
I first got to know Mexico in 1975, Guatemala too, and USA hegemony helped create class war mentality, as in "Mexico (or Guatemala) is a free county... If you have money.".
And "USA victimizes (insert your country here) so we victimize (indigenous, mixed blood, lower classes, etc)."
America sneezes, we get the flu.
"Those without shoes must watch where they walk" as they throw beer bottles into the jungle and listen for the tinkle of breaking glass.
Heard of Mexico's 43 missing rural student protesters who commandeered some school buses on an annual pilgrimage to Mexico City in 2014? Still a mystery about their bodies, but after several lying official stories and a couple international investigations, the complicity of a small town mayor and wife, all local and federal law enforcement and military, and the church, revealed the cause - heroin hidden in the floor of one of the buses.
But the amorality!
Imagine trying to keep a secret amongst so many participants, the destinies of 43 missing children, presumed dead since 2014?
On the news yesterday, the guy in a local convenience store explained, they keep catching Narco criminals only to immediately let them go.
Things do improve. They stopped torturing street dogs, and radio ads encourage people to report animal cruelty..
Mexico beats USA in education of Human Rights but the entire LatinAm world produces almost no important science (in spite of Cuba's bragging about cures for erectile dysfunction made from sugarcane) probably due to the mandatory use of double negatives by Spanish's ruling agency, the Academia Real de Español, who argue every year about the historical stupidity of making CH and LL separate letters in dictionaries, yet change nothing!
Latin Americans do not suffer the sexual repression of N. America's English speaking WASPs, except the discomfort of nudity, but it's fake - in Mexico anyway, they put nude female statues all over the Malecons. Mazatlán's malecón (seawall) has a nude couple, penis on display, charioteering dolphins. The story of trying to clothe Mexico City's statue of Diana the Hunter (picture a nude atop the Washington Monument in the middle of a main downtown artery) aired yesterday on the radio, pretty funny.
Check out "Global Index on Morality" Madrid, from 2018, 2018, 2020 etc. to see USA's very low rank in "sexuality indicators." This helps explain why USA prefers violence as the go-to choice for solving problems, even in Movies (BBC study days it's getting worse in Hollywood).
I got in LOTS if trouble in USA for a philosophy of "Hope you have lots of sex and nothing if violence," specifically by writing "Dr. Brinkley, A Man and His Calling" at the local Del Rio Texas' RETIRING Head Librarian's urging, about a Quack doctor creating the World's Most Powerful radio station in history to sell his Goat Gland transplant rejuvenations - Probably the planet's greatest serial killer.
The problem? His alcoholic son married into local "World Capital if Wool and Mohair" landed gentry FOR THREE DAYS but sired a daughter. So the community decides to hide grandpa, in spite of him introducing The Carter Family (Johnny Cash wife) and amassing wealth like sixteen gold-monographed Rolls Royces, three yachts (brought Galapagos tortoise back), stocking 1500 drug store with colored water medicines prescribed on air, member of the Kansas Navy (can't make this stuff up!), and a $250,000,000 mail fraud suit from the US government that uncovered just a wee bit of his operation in 1943.
Imagine that number in today's dollars (multiply by 16.4 = $4,100,000,000, $4 billion and just his mail income!)
He scrambled to hide assets, 3 hospitals, orange groves, etc..
For example, in recent decades, a San Antonio thrift store sold a fur coat with a $250,000 brooch sewed into the seam.
He lived in Del Rio, but built the transmitter in Mexico.
Zz Top's song "Heard it on the X" is about the station, and Wolfman Jack owned it after Brinkley, helping to move USA pop music toward black skinned people's Rhythm and Blues.
Countries got together in Havana to control these "border blaster" broadcasters, creating USA's first attempt at the regulator FCC.
So to hear Pete Buttigiege (or anyone) talk about helping Mexico with Military Aid strikes me as a REALLY bad ignorant idea.
Mexico authorities keep catching a Narco's son drug boss, and letting him go within two days, to stop the wave of violence, burning trucks on highways, etc from his young, armed, male employees.
Just legalize drugs stateside, and hope Mexico figures out how to tax the Narco's uneducated legions of well armed violent young men.
There's an amusing movie in Spanish, and a Netflix documentary, that displays the destruction of homes in Allende, Coahuila by Narco-boys playing with heavy machinery in revenge for the chaos sown by DEA agents demanding Blackberry cellphone PINs from an informant whose family stateside they threatened....
Best for USA military to stay out of Mexico.
Everyone will try to whip their ass.
Everyone.
Los Cabos' San Jose del Cabo has two lines of iron busts in the main square, where rich tourists flock to the Art Market on Thursdays from nearby Cabo San Lucas.
If they could read Spanish, they would discover Baja California Sur's heroes against the USA's military invasion!
"American" United Statesians created their own under-education by allowing religious nitwit local control of public school districts, and look where we are now, number one country believing in Angels, and Donald Trump is one if them?
Doom.
There is also Felix Rodriguez and "alleged" murder of Kiki Camarena to consider. Its not just an internal problem. The descendants of Knights of the Golden Circle are still trying to find excuses to take over.
It goes back to our encestors Aztecs and Mayans it’s in our blood to be violent lol
@@markplimsoll I am not sexually repressed as I don't like sex but I do not like nudity, everyone including statues and art looks better fully clothed.
From warring Mayans and Aztecs to brutal Spanish colonialism it just seems like brutality is uniquely woven into the history of the Mexico and it remains uniquely brutal in Latin America to this day as a result.
How big of a roll does racism play
@@sheldonhollis5258what do you mean, how would racism affect violence in Mexico? Targeting certain people, races communities?
Aztecs? 😅 European myth, Mexicas is the real name.
@@fer100881 Well, am African, Kenyan to be specific, so am I racist against indigenous Mexicans, I don't think so. Imagine this was my exact theory on this issue. We've all seen organised crime everywhere throughout the world but the kind of violence that Mexican cartels display has not been seen anywhere throughout the world. I watched a video yesterday, the kind that would make Alkaid@ and I$IL cringe. Am for the theory that this thing has to be genealogical somehow. As a student of knowledge, I just want to understand how a certain population of human beings can be that 'gore.'
@@chriswamahiu8751 Cartel copy torture technics from Mogadishu, more specific from Somalia. Actually brought people from there to teaching here to cartel members. But I don’t know the connection between racism and from where the cartel learn technics to torture. 🤷🏻♂️
People from Mexico always get pissed off at this comment. Carlos Slim, who was worth $90 Billion, left Mexico and said he would never return to his home country because it's too dangerous. Carlos Slim had a private Army protecting himself and his family, and said that he was under constant threat of having someone in his family kidnapped. So he moved them all to the United States.
Anyone in the public light is vulnerable to those issues. That’s why you see famous people with body guards. Have you ever been to Mexico?
He is not the only wealthy Mexican to leave Mexico with their family or at least send their kids to school in the USA. I am a local El Pasoan and I grew up with many children of wealthy Mexicans who sent their kids to the private school I went to. They crossed the bridge every morning and they were often late to class as the bridge often got held up for various reasons. I do not blame them one bit for doing this.
Strange, because according to Wikipedia he lives in CDMX and according to various news articles he has been living there for 40 years. Although I don't know anything about his family
@@Brian_Duke right. CDMX is home to approximately 100,000 millionaires. pandakicker obviously knows all of them and apparently they all escaped to El Paso TX…
He is not even Mexican but a Lebanese good he doesn't lives here anymore
When talking about the state and narcotraffic, Genaro García Luna must be mentioned, he represents one of the most if not the biggest problem in the fail war on drugs. Corruption.
And General Cienfuegos too
It should also be mentioned The United States and it’s failed attempt at stopping the drugs from entering their territory. The vast amount of junkies in USA, and the easiness of which Americans sale weapons to the cartels. That should be mentioned too.
You can't be blame the rottenness and moral decay and of a whole nation to just one man, don't be naïve. Start thinking for yourself
@@vonsopas I agree, Luna is not the cause, he is the symptom. The political system is broken, he is just an example out of many, that is what I meant by "represents ".
@@astikviento9564 How was General Cienfuegos supposed to do anything when the president didn't let him
That awkward moment when I click on this video out of curiosity and I happen to be an El Pasoan. I grew up here and so we know all about this stuff. It is fun to listen to you all across the pond talk about the issues of our border town in relation to Mexico.
I can confirm that the violence in Juarez is pretty bad right now. I live close enough to it to hear the occasional gunfight with those high powered weapons while sitting outside in my yard in the middle of the night. It can be pretty freaky especially since stray bullets sometimes hit buildings here.
@@pandakicker1 You mean the occasional fire cracker?
The kids school district nation, in many more the states towns cities are everywhere a shooter at america way worsened in generation a population in the world than the mexican others countries
Never seen any cartels in Mexico, not to say they don't exist, nor a cartel war, been all over Mexico, been in Tijuana for 45 years, your opening icon for "why is Mexico so violent'? has a good artist designer, would make a great Halloween costume
There are many reasons Mexico is the way it is. From corruption to severely underpaid police officers, and citizens having no rights to self defense it's a veritable nightmare of mass proportions. They did have an auto defense force that really worked for a long while but the corrupt politicians and police disasarmed the good people fighting the cartels.
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Cops are paid $600 a month. 12,000 pesos
The Catholic Factor. Corruption, self preservation also look at Italy, France in WW2, Latin America is predominantly Catholic. Also has anybody ever asked themselves why there are 20 countries that speak the same language (Spanish ) and is that a good thing ?
@@richardalvarado-ik9br
I don't know...English is the official language of 67 different countries. Apparently it's also the official language for 27 non-soverign places as well.
@@richardalvarado-ik9br what does spanish and catholicism have anything to do with it?
I lived in Michoacán (Mex) for 18yrs. I can assure after mid 90’s things started to gradually get worse, unimaginable crimes started to happen. I call it “the roach effect” when you spray insecticide. Before was so beautiful and safe, now I don’t recognize it anymore.
La Cucaracha
Michoacan is like one of the main sources of gore videos now
It’s so sad
The War on Drugs has NEVER been worth the cost !:-(
Sadly the politicians who advocated it are not around long enough to be held accountable.
You cant just call a solution dumb without proposing a better one. Various methods have been tried over the year and none seems to work.
War what war
They are so violent because they play too many video games.
Ah yes the video games
bingo
That's it you solved it.
It's quite sad that despite all the effort put in by the various regimes the situation still seems bleak.
Mexicans are cowards
And yet governments killed way more people..
Check the statics of murder rates in New Orleans you will be surprised how dangerous the US is.
I think at this point they should declare Marshall law and go full 🦅 on these cartels
Effort? You mean pretending
Much of the violence is because the growth of cartels has resulted in the growth of generalized crime such as extortion, robberies, kidnappings, rapes, etc.
There are no guns allowed in Mexico yet armed thugs abound.
I live in El Paso, one of the safest cities in the US… because we have liberal firearms laws in Texas and many in El Paso go about well armed. By the way, El Paso is a modern democratic city of over a million population.
From the era of the Aztecs to the time of the Cartels, savagery and violence is as ingrained in Mexican culture as war is ingrained in US culture 😅
War wouldn’t be ingrained in our culture if our corrupt government didn’t answer to the state of Israel. They are completely in their pockets
I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can't beat them like this. Its been shown again and again. Where there is demand, supply will follow. The only way is to legalize and regulate drugs. In the US, and Mexico.
Mexico don't have a drug problem, nowhere near what the drug problem is, in the U.S. there drug is alcohol
@@geraldarnoult Okay, sure, whatever. Mexico has a... getting americans drugs... problem.
@@jessefisher1809 Most Mexicans are not selling or trying to sell drugs to Americans, most Mexicans are not into drugs, not even pot
this is a US problem
@@jessefisher1809 America needs to stop taken drugs, answers to the problem
When the US ended prohibition of alcohol, all the alcohol supply chain related crime disappeared. It's so frustrating that no one accepts that we need to legalize drugs to end the drug war.
you are aware that they already legalize cannabis in multiple states, yet, some cartels continued to sell the product illegally, and now the cannabis businesses cannot compete, because they sell it cheaper, and without paying taxes, yet the government does not do anything about it, unless they are getting their cut.
There are many states that still have full on cannabis prohibition,, that is where most of the Mexican cannabis goes. The answer is treat cannabis like coffee, eliminate taxes, eliminate regulations, keep government out of it.
@@juanvaldes1837 drugs are not the problem. It is called organized crime. They will just move on to other illegal businesses, they are criminals, crime, not drugs, is their business.
@@alexalex-uq4cm Yeah, but it would be a massive blow for their economy if suddenly they can't do the business that allows them so supply for the American demand. I can't think of any illegal business that would be as profitable as selling something of high demand to the US. Maybe they could traffic with exotic animals or something (gun traffic is already the others way around), but non of that is gonna have as high of a demand as an addictive substance. Maybe they can try to ship it to other countries, but not only is that gonna be way more expensive and difficult, but most countries that have a big market with considerable purchasing power will probably just follow the example of the US and legalize it as well, and suddenly the cartels have to compete with either local or multinational American companies.
@@alexalex-uq4cm what other crime would make them as much money as the drugs?
If you really want to understand violence in Latin America and Mexico special it takes a lot more thatn looking at the current politics. The roots of these realtions which bound in so much violence are in the history of all of Latin America and can NOT be explained through analysis of some politics and policies.
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Mexico is violent due to the USA. Reagan and its administration finance the Sandinistas with drug money. Let's not forget US citizens'insane appetite for illicit drugs. Now let's not forget the illegal guns going into Mexico.
@@marco477utep I was talking about a much larger context. The violence can be traced back since the independence war and is not an easy topic to get near to. But it necesaary if you want to understand the violence in Mexico and other latin american countries. It cannot be explained through current events only.
By that logic Europe would be even more violent. Its not. The US makes sure to topple democratically elected governments for brutal, corrupt dictators.
The war on drugs funds criminals and easily accessible guns in the US flows down to fuel the violence creating a refugee crisis. The US is completely to blame for the tragedy that is south america.
Going back further,it had already started at the time of aztec civilization.
It’s the bad apples that are allowed to run rampant, most Mexicans are peaceful and hardworking people that are god fearing and family oriented.
So, the whole video says "Mexico is violent". The question in the title remains unanswered.
No mention of the fact that the US loves drugs, has a huge purchasing power and is an inexhaustible source of firearms that are readily available. And that Mexico has a long history of extreme violence inflicted by Spanish colonizers on the natives, who were themselves engaged in permanent tribal warfare and human sacrifices before the Spaniard conquistadores appeared.
Violence in Mexico, and in other ex Spanish colonies, has deep roots in history.
Most of us mis s the violence topic and jump on the Narco connection!
Right!
This video is oversimplified and wrong.
You cannot correlate "homocides" as only Government vs. Narcos; forgetting Narcos vs. Narcos, neighbors killing neighbors, and men killing women in a culture that routinely says "mothers worthless" (vale madre), a county superficially Catholic and amoral (you can pay the church to erase sins), a country where Narcos ally with the Governments of cities + states + federal law enforcements + National Military + church, yup even the Catholic Church, because Narcos have the money, so much so that small town "Social Services" infomal help to the needy comes from the local well-off Narco family, and Mexican families are HUGE, averaging 70 members.
Mexico, like most Latin American countries, have no real education system. Search for Hispanic or Portuguese Nobel Laureates in the Sciences - almost none, I think due to the illogic of the mandatory use of double negatives which cripples brains trying to understand Math and Logic.
So they think everything is just opinion, and love to bat around Magic Thinking about crystals, undergound rivers, power centers, government-designated Magic Communities ("Pueblos Magicos") and other delusions about how incredibly advanced ancient and Prehispanic MesoAmerican cultures were, but the Spaniards burnt their libraries. OK, so the Mayans did define the number Zero about the same time as Persia...
In the 1990s, VCR movies from Mexico were almost 100% fantasies of narco-violence, so they also glamorized violence into a reality they easily accepted!
Then there's ancient Mexico's fascination with death and skulks mixed with the weird Spanish grammar of a "temporary death" in "está muerto" instead of Es muerto, which would be permanent, but hey, who cares, Narcos have the money to pay off their sins, crimes, and violence against women and swoop up to heaven to drink Tequila with Jesus, listening to Vicente Fernandez, perhaps historiy's most virtuoso male vocalist.
I lived a year 1998 in Cancún and everything was peaceful BECAUSE the governor of Quinana Roo aligned with one narco group. Today, tourists duck for cover as rival groups machine gun each other.
Enjoyable presentation, but you make a simple cartoon out of a deep ongoing social tragedy of ignorance caused by their language and Catholicism, funded by USA's recreational drug users BECAUSE drugs are illegal.
The Starbucks and Marlboro model works, the gateway drugs!
Of course they won’t, they are liberal aligned to the US world hegemony, they can’t admit much of the reasons are directly caused by the US because it goes against their pro imperialism narrative. Most of the problem simply lies on US drug demand and guns. Most LatAm countries have corruption, most countries generally have a degree of corruption but they are not next to the US and Canada has an insignificant amount of population which is essentially a parasite of the US making another USA state.
Mexico's violence also comes from their sensationalist media in print and broadcast TV, and a superstitious ejido indian class, educated to the third grade, seeing yellow journalism blood and gore and accepting that a a part of reality, in their life too then! This also aligns with Aztec roots, and the contemporary fascination with skulls death and human sacrifice, and those cute Katrina dolls.
In the Tijuana airport in 1996 a big screen TV carried maybe hours of footage of rodeo and bullfight fails, lots of hoof-stomped and kicked craniums.
Why not in USA?
From The Alantic magazine:
"A number of studies suggest that the (USA) media have grown less likely to publish explicitly violent images in recent decades, even as fictional portrayals of violence in film and video games have intensified. The retreat from graphic photography seems partly the result of increased timidity about offending the audience"
@@ericktellez7632 Overly simplistic Rightwing nonsense. You want to understand World Class corruption, look at the 2010 United States Supreme Court Case "Citizen's United" and consider it a model of how USA controls democracies and "helps" elections around the world.
How's that USA "Guido as Venezuelan President" campaign going?
Lmfao.
Then why isn’t the US as violent as Mexico.
It’s a lack of law and order; plain and simple as that. It’s lawlessness. Law and order is was differentiates us. Mexico also has a larger indigenous population. Those people are less civilized. Plus Mexico is poor. Poverty breeds violence. Of course a lot of that could be overcome with law and order. Corruption is probably partly to blame for that. However, I think most of it is simply less civilized people living in Mexico.
South America in general is a dangerous place..
Mexico is in North America …
Do you mean Latin America? Hate to break it to you, but Uruguay, Argentina, chile, Costa Rica, peru, and El Salvador are all safer or much safer than the USA (usa isn't nearly as safe like usa ppl thinks).
In fact, El Salvador is now ranked as the most safest country in the whole America continent (surpassing Canada).
@@centuryfiles9558
Guess person meant Latin America. You can tell the person is clueless since Latin America has like 5 or 6 way safer countries than the USA (heck, one of their countries ranks as the safest country in the whole America continent).
@@AngelloDelNorte 😂😂😂 what complete and utter nonsense. El Salvador is one of the most dangerous places in South America .. this year alone 64,000 gang members have been arrested, there were 62 gang killings in one day last year and had a state of emergency . There has been many tourists killed there . Many MS13 members which have flooded the USA come from there too.
@@AngelloDelNorte I’m clueless hahahah oh, the irony .
They just sentenced the guy that was in charge of the public safety from 2006 to 2012 for been colluded with the sinaloa cartel
Sooo yeaaa i think that contributed a little bit to the violence
LAMO... Gee I dont know? Maybe because of the great teacher for violence north of Mexico...
Everyone here talking about how Mexico is so violent as Country…
Me as Mexican living in my own country, resting peacefully in my couch after coming back home from really nice vacation days on the beach, watching news videos about shootings where innocent people died in USA, violent protest in France and war in Ukraine and my kids asking “why all those countries are so dangerous? Here is so nice”. And then boom, this vid on my feed and my big laugh!
Perspective, is everything.
Other people in other parts of Mexico are not as luck as you. My Cousin is from Michoacan and told me the story of how he got pulled over because he drives a F250 pick up truck. The CJNG was conducting checkpoints and pulled him out at gun point. They asked where he was from and assumed he was from a rival group because of the area he told them. They had to go through his cellphone and basically make sure he was not a rival. He said he was terrified because all of them had AK47s pointed at him, guns that are illegal in Mexico yet they still have them. He also showed them a flight ticket that he had since he was traveling to the US the next day and then they finally let him go. As far as I am aware, there are no armed convoys conducting checkpoints and basically assuming the position of law enforcement in many other countries. That only happens when there is a war going on which is exactly what is happening in Mexico. There are shootings in the US, yes, but there are no armed convoys of 30 armored pick up trucks with M2 Browning machine guns mounted in the back and full of armed men with AK47s and grenade launchers parading around town. That does not happen anywhere in the US. And when they get into gun battles, the gun battles are on a much larger scale, so much larger that the Military is needed to be called in. Perfect example, Culiacan.
Fyi the guy making the video isnt even american....😂😂 Also just because you're not experiencing the violence doesnt mean its not there. Under the aame logic i could say the Egyptians never existed. Ive never seen them or been to Egypt to see the pyramids so it isnt real...
@@westcoastplinkin6559 Yup armed convoys equipped by USA.
@@mikeyrose4183 Oh really? I didn't know you could get RPGs in the US.
Mexico has the world’s 13th highest homicide rate per capita in the world. What perspective should we use?
If you go to Mexico for medical reasons and stay with your plan you will be fine. Ive been many times. I never drive my vehicle over. Park at pay lot and walk across. You immediately get a taxi to where your going. The worst that could happen is youll be approached by beggars or the lines are over crowded. Never go on a Friday. Truth is, the dental savings are tremendous and the treatment is fantastic.
I think the best way to stop the Narcos is to cut their funding. The US Gov needs to manufacture their own drugs at a scale and cost of production that makes illegal operations unprofitable. Make it so that the money made has to be used for rehabilitation and drug education programs.
You’re never going to stop everybody from doing drugs but you can get rid of the violence, crime and simultaneously gather funding for world class rehab programs
Great video !!
My dad was involved in politics in the 70s he ended up with schizophrenia it was and still is wild
This is all a violent business for all parties involved here, of course.
The biggest problem I see is the widespread corruption that entangles practically everybody. I know that, because I live in Mexico. It is part of the culture - and there is a very thin line between "doing a favor" and corruption. I would love to know how to solve this mess. Certainly not with "war" (look how that played out in Afghanistan), but "hugs" surely neither.
Mexico is violent due to the USA. Reagan and its administration finance the Sandinistas with drug money. Let's not forget US citizens'insane appetite for illicit drugs. Now let's not forget the illegal guns going into Mexico.
What Mexico needs is a Strong Military Dictatorship or a Strongman or CAUDILLO like Castro of Cuba who can ruthlessly crush these Cartels .
Western Style Soft Liberal Democracy will never work in South America and Central American countries .
Central American countries and South American countries were always Safe and Prosperous under a CAUDILLO or a Strongman like Pinochet of Chile or Castro of Cuba or Trujillo of Dominican Republic .
@@bobfaam5215 I can see you went to trump university to learn about dictatorships in Central and South America.
El Salvador's president is setting a good example now. THOUSANDS of cartel members arrested within weeks. Crime plumets to almost zero. A heavy hand is needed sometimes when the problem is so deeply embedded in the society/culture
@@DaggerSecurity Sure if you consider arresting people with no due process Stalin like government.
You should not hide it don’t just say the most dangerous city in Mexico just say the most dangerous city in the world. Mexico has have the most dangerous city in the world for over 6 years straight now 🇲🇽
If you notice the most violent regions of the world, often have the warmest climates. I wonder if the heat plays a part of humans acting irrationally.
Yes, it is
The issue is the demand chain to the US leads to violence being necessary to control drug routes ots not that ahrd to understand. As ling as US demands drugs as a cutlure this wont end for both nations . Heat has little to do with it
@@learnwithpiper8436Well, look at the most of ASEAN countries, hot and peaceful now. Germany has bad weather, made horrible crimes, Belgium, horrible genocides in Africa, they had zoo's for poor African children. Balkans has beautiful nature, has pretty good climate, beautiful people, and we killed each other like there is no tommorow, and media still talks about past wars without stoping. It's not about heat, it's about evil in the human heart and absence of God.
If the US wants to fix the immigration problem they need to prop up Central America, including Mexico.
Does the US really need to do everything?
@@Pivot35 I can't comment on kk84's solution or the US's interference down south, but many countries (especially the US) help/influence other countries in a way that directly or indirectly benefits them in the long run. It's not a matter of altruism, but of mutual benefit.
Helping solve a poblem you're a part of is not "doing everything" and im not saying México is a poor lamb of a country that must wait iddly by for the US to fix its shitt show wich it probably couldn't do without México's cooperation on the matter wich it currently does not have
NO. The US just needs to stop waging coup d'etats in Latin America and stop supporting corrupt presidents too.
El salvador proved that you don't need USA to help to make a central america country safe and secure. It's just that corrupt politicians and greedy innigrants for why they go to the USA.
The US should pivot to a strategy of treatment and harm reduction.
It’s pointless to measure success by the amount of drugs taken off the street. If anything it just makes the fewer remaining drugs sell for a higher price.
The solution lies in addressing the demand side.
the solution is to legalize all drugs
Wrong, the solution is to legalize all drugs and have the US Government and the Mexican government to turn into benevolent Capos, so that they may provide to us safe drugs and remove the opportunity for the criminals to exploit an unused industry.
Have y’all looked at Portland?
Honestly you aren't wrong. I think the best solution is a mix. Focus on the demand by treating those who are addicted and use force only against the traffickers themselves. Then again I'm not sure this would work so I guess we will have to see.
My opinion is we ought to decide what’s legal and what’s not drug wise and open our minds a little maybe weed shrooms legalization but then clamp down on all other stuff maybe we add some stuff I’m unaware of to our cool with it list. But start really hammering drug traffickers and maybe even users if repeat offenders idk I live in Spokane wa our crime is off the charts and the cops will self admit to not doing anything to catch people cause the law will not prosecute so why do paper work and life just gets worse for everyone else. Poor areas don’t got be bad areas
Parts of Canada are allowing for the creation of cocaine and it's legal distribution to make it safer and to remove the criminal element. This is based on the experience of legalized marijuana. It used to be that marijuana distribution led to illegal grow ops and crime, all of which has disappeared in Canada. I think that the cartels would disappear overnight if regular farmers were allowed to legally grow crops themselves. Any form of control the cartels have now, would be impossible.
A recent DOD Report Stated the Major, older Cartels now make as much money from Mining and Oil Refining as they do from Crime. They're unbelievably integrated into the System now.
@@tsubadaikhan6332 Thanks for you comment, I was not aware. From an economics point of view, any business activity deemed illegal could be sanctioned by western states. Shipping would not take the product, insurance would not cover risk, etc, etc. Mexico would have to snuff those businesses out and would probably get help from the internation community.
@@philipberthiaume2314 One of the problems with that is they've been laundering money for forty years. Pablo Escobar had a Billion Dollars and owned 3 Taxis. The new breed are not so obvious. Money from Legitimate Businesses is buying more Legitimate Businesses and the process Repeats. They now own Shares in Fortune 500 Companies, and there's Suspicion, not Proof, this is how they are able to source Precursors for Meth and Fentanyl from American and Euro Manufacturers. That stuff is supposed to be strictly controlled, but you can buy it labelled as Paint Stripper in 5 Gallon cans in Rural Mexican Hardware Stores.
Mexican Campesino's aren't spending $300 a container to repaint their houses.
Their Integration is nearly complete. The only way I see forward is Demand Reduction. Use the Entire Sackler Family fortune to Register those with Opioid Addictions and start treating them.
@@tsubadaikhan6332 Is like any other mafia around the world, their people grow old, accumulated enough money and now they want to settle down, rest, become legal, they realize all the shootings, killings, etc was fine when they starter and were young and hungry but eventually they get tired of living that way.
Yeah...because synthetic drugs simply don't exist, right? 👍👍
The reason for the rise in Homicides isn't a matter of presidents it's a matter of the game changing. Once the Los Zetas Cartel rose to fame around 2010 and came out with extreme violence and military like structure, the other cartels had to adapt to the same methods or they'd lose territory. This made even Cartels like the Sinaloa cartel adopt more violence whereas traditionally they'd only kill if they'd need to, to avoid eyes on them. Whereas Los Zetas and CJNG made violence their branding, and to keep up the other cartels like Sinaloa and the Gulf cartel had to double down and become more violent. Which has been the cause of the increasing death toll. Cartels went from bandits with pistols to militarised units with man made tanks and rpgs after Los Zetas
The first words in the Mexican National Anthem is “Mexicans hear the cry of war” so, kinda in our blood….
That’s depressing.
Mexico is voilent because of its culture.
I have been living in México City. In general is peaceful to live in this great city
You liked?
I know USA lies about Mexico that’s why I don’t believe anything when USA talks about other countries
Looks like hugs are not working.
This whole word's gore video at least half from Mexico.
???
I am Mexican but I want to know why, while I watch this video.
I feel incredibly sorry for certain parts of the world. As I get more awareness.
Mexico is not violent. It is a cultural practice and the way of life over there.
I am from Mexico, ive been in a shooting at least 15 times when i was a baby. One day, the cartels just moved out. There has not been even one shooting since then (that i know of).
De que estado eres ?
Now do “Why Is America So Violent?: School Shooter Edition”
Why are there so many terrorist attacks in Europe and so many mass shootings in the US. But of course these racist and bias misinformation channels won’t say anything about t.
America is far less violent than mostly every country. Both Latin America Africa suffer from high unreported crime and Europe is at perpetual war.
@@anthonyjackson7336 native american reservations and the southside of almost any major city in america have a high unreported crime rate as well. That argument is invalid.
35,000,000 kids in school everyday, only 35 die, on average, per year. The news over reports it.
@@Imtiredofthisgrandpa I live on a native reservation it doesn't really apply here since most reservations have sovereignty meaning our own department has to handle the situation state can't do anything only if it's a federal investigation can the government get involved. I'll admit some of these rez cops aren't very smart sometimes or refuse to look into the situation because of fear alot of them are old school want things more simple and quiet. I feel like in our department some don't even know how to use these new equipment they get at their disposal like the drones they recently got. Plus some people wouldn't want to rat out their families since everyone kinda knows everyone on certain reservations
Edit: it feels like some of these rez cops are very inexperienced I don't even think they actually take the time to train with their sidearms
Legalize and tax in the US then use 2/3 for treatment and rehab and give 1/3 to Mexico to help create infrastructure to connect the country as a whole. It’s in the US’s interest to have a strong government in Mexico
I think that’s a great idea, helping our neighbors would help our own Country
Yeah, you have already helped once. And now California and Texas are no longer belong to Mexico.
Cut manufacturing in China bring to Mexico
Taxation is a theft.
Lol. I would never support the dispensary.
Lived around the border in several towns and most of the border states. Mexican culture would have to drastically change for any hope of improvement. Its really unbelievable how different mexican culture is compared to European culture. Almost every ideal is reversed. Corruption is so embedded in their culture that its normal to them and they make fun of Americans for being so trusting. They have no respect for education, despite the 4x increase in population the universities have seen their enrollment crash. Even as a kid I could see there was something seriously wrong.
Cause the US just won't legalize ...
This guy tells half the story of some of his facts. Especially the military so called 180 moves. He quite literally ignored why he pulled the military off the street not explaining the explicit strategy it was a part of.
This is the first video I’ve seen of this guy. Fully expecting bias and a narrow view.
Bias and a narrow view is exactly what this video is. It was not objective and clearly shows it’s own narrative the longer I watched.
If you’re looking into Mexico’s war on drugs for a school paper or research. This is NOT a reliable source.
Mexico is not violent ; Violence is in Mexico. This title is inappropriate " Why has violence increased in Mexico? or .. Why is violence increasing ? etc. Its not Mexico (the people) that are violent, its a small portion of Mexicans.
A = ah
E = ay
I = ee
O = oh
U = oo
Ñ = enye like Enya but different
Seen-ah-low-ah
Oh! But you put some flavor behind Juarez
I still can’t get over the fact that Brits can’t manage to pronounce taco correctly. “Tack-o” smh
@@michael7191 yeah, but in all fairness they can't understand why we can't pronounce
"Worcestershire" sauce
Mexico is violent due to the USA. Reagan and its administration finance the Sandinistas and dark ops with drug money. Let's not forget US citizens'insane appetite for illicit drugs. Also the USA illegal guns going into Mexico are fueling violence. It's known that the USA trained Mexico's secret police that cracked down on students which is known as the Tlatelolco massacre.
@@marco477utep dont forget the cartel hit squads are trained by the USA before they get some 0s put on the end of their salaries
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was Dany Trejo as Tortuga
Its always here in the border, this is one of the most dangerous borders in the world
Only in the news is dangerous
Where does the money go?
When I visit Mexican beaches, I see thriving tourism. When I visit central Mexico, I see massive factories and highways buzzing with 18-wheel trucks. Mexico looks like it's booming yet it does seem to get ahead.
You did not show some of the big shoot out with the poilce and army.
And the hundreds of Mexican people killed by the gangs
Good video. Covers relevant adjacent information that other videos do not cover. Every other video is full of rudimentary info and sometimes even misinformation.
Although, there at the end, asking if cartels can be eradicated is not a well-informed question because cartels cannot be eradicated. They will exist to some degree or another for as long as drugs are illegal and/or as long as there's a demand for them.
El Salvador's president is setting a good example now. THOUSANDS of cartel members arrested within weeks. Crime plumets to almost zero. A heavy hand is needed sometimes when the problem is so deeply embedded in the society/culture
@DaggerSecurity yeah, it works now but hear me now and quote me later. Within the next 10 years, El Salvador is going to be a military dictatorship. What happens when he gets all the gang members? You think he's going to stop? No. He's going to keep going with his dissidents and political rivals. We've seen throughout history the same story repeating and we never learn
@@coldmexican288 usually the military dictatorships are the ones being supported by the US and CIA because they allow US business interests to dominate their country instead of allowing the local citizens to control their country’s wealth.
@@DaggerSecurity You mean gangs from the MS13, I dont think you even know what does the term cartel members even mean if you are claiming gangsters are one LOL this is not your subject. Also Mexico has never had gang problems and never will. Bukele has yet to tackle the Colombian, Nicaraguan and Mexican cartels that operate in his own country because even he knows not to mess with them, he goes for the smaller ones aka GANGS because thats a "bigger" issue for him.
The psychological momentum from Mexicos Aztec roots, when ripping out the hearts of captured warriors was apart of the cultural history= still haunts this country's pathos.
This is historically not accurate. Cartels started decapitating enemies online after Muslim terrorists started the grisly fad. Soon after, these crime syndicates tried to terrorize each other into submission with increasingly horrific killing and torture. I believe this happened because unlike with U.S. and European mafias, there were no long established codes of honor and rules. It became a greed driven horror show. In contrast, Mexico experienced much violence throughout the Colonial period and even after Independence and the era called El Porfiriato, and throughout the Mexican Revolution that claimed millions of Mexican lives, and there is no record of the extremely sadistic violence we are seeing now.
Well said. I doubt few Americans read much of anything about the conquest of Mexico and what the Spanish found there. Hint: It wasn't guacamole.
The second amendment has bad consequences for MEXICO with so many American guns available....
VisualPolitik, we need a deep investigation of the big bosses of drugs in Usa and how politics and corruption in Usa allow to be the biggest drug market of the world.
Who put mexico filter on his teeth?
Lmao 😂
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Mexico is violent due to the USA. Reagan and its administration finance the Sandinistas and dark ops with drug money. Let's not forget US citizens'insane appetite for illicit drugs. Also the USA illegal guns going into Mexico are fueling violence. It's known that the USA trained Mexico's secret police that cracked down on students which is known as the Tlatelolco massacre.
This needs a multiprong approach. The US needs as Infidel Heretic put it there needs to be a move away from incarcerating people and actual treatment and harm reduction. This would make the market smaller causing the cartels a dilemma. The second point is finding a way to remove the corruption, at all levels of society. The way the West didi that was to increase everybodies pay, and use tax money for social services in a transparent manner. This, I know, is a big ask, I spend a lot of time in Indonesia and corruption is a way of life here, for everybody. To the government's credit they have created a powerful anticorruption body, which has teeth. How Mexico would do that, I am not sure, but if Indonesia can do it then I am sure they could too.
Mexico is violent due to the USA. Reagan and its administration finance the Sandinistas and dark ops with drug money. Let's not forget US citizens'insane appetite for illicit drugs. Also the USA illegal guns going into Mexico are fueling violence. It's known that the USA trained Mexico's secret police that cracked down on students which is known as the Tlatelolco massacre.
@1980sCrackbaby Sorry for the self hatred. Mexico is one of the birth places of civilization and did without any outside interference.
The drug trade has had a significant impact on Mexico's security and has resulted in a large number of deaths over the years. Unfortunately, estimating the exact number of deaths is difficult because the situation is complex and constantly evolving, and reliable data can be hard to come by. However, some sources estimate that tens of thousands of people have died as a result of drug-related violence in Mexico over the past few decades.
According to the Mexican government, there were 34,515 homicides in the country in 2020, although not all of these can be attributed directly to drug-related violence. However, drug-related violence is still a significant problem in Mexico, and it has led to the deaths of many innocent civilians, law enforcement officers, and members of drug cartels.
It is important to note that these numbers are estimates and that the situation in Mexico is complex and constantly evolving. The drug trade has had significant negative impacts on Mexico's social, economic, and political stability, and addressing this problem requires a multifaceted approach that includes efforts to reduce demand for drugs, improve security, and address the underlying social and economic factors that contribute to drug-related violence.
Mexico has been violent long before drug trafficking was a big thing
Chat Gpt ?
Answering the question
Mexico is violent thanks to the great addiction of drugs from our neighbor eeuu, that’s the reason
Thank you.
And as a Mexican, mexico is no violent at all.
It’s a beautiful country full of life
Just don’t be silly and doing stupid things
decriminalise all drugs and will see wonders.
It would be even fucking worse.
Thousands of people will be enslaved to work for major drug companies
The rivalry will increase as well as the pay
The government will be bought off and violence will skyrocket
💰💰💰 is very powerful and speaks loud.
There’s a saying in Mexico that goes like this
“Poor Mexico, so far from God but so close to the U.S”
LOL I hate you, nice qoute from proifito diaz 👌🏾
We Americans actually wish we had a real border between us and Mexico. At least those of us with a brain, do.
Why is the world and human race so violent?
We're animals. Omce you realize the nature of our biology xenophobic tendencies and racism and violence and so on is actually quite natural in all animals. Its not unique to humans these traits sadly we inherited many nasty things as an animal
@@ishrendon6435 Racism and xenophobia aren't inherited they're taught.
@@views-kb6sv They are felt, not taught.
@@martinusv7433 No they aren't. Unless you are an isolated group in the middle of no where, people get along fine until they learn about radical ideas.
@@views-kb6sv That's just called being a part of the human society. People learn through OBSERVATION.
Because it has been conquered by Spanish. And south Spanish people are genetically Arabic. Think about that.
You say mexico is violent but as far as I know, the statistic of mass shooting on public spaces happens to have usa as the number 1
And where are those statics … show us comparing with Mexico
@@ksrawat88 look for them i aint gonna do your homework
The only answer is Death.
When civilians and criminals know that any connection with drugs and cartel's means a certain Death penalty when caught should deter the majority.
Imprisonment has become a "badge of honor" and in most case's are treated as training ground for criminals.
And to criminals, "honor among thieves"
The government want helping these small towns out and when the cartel invests in the community and the government doesn’t, what do you think happens ?
Es muy curioso que dediquen una sección entera del video en llamarle populista a AMLO y curiosamente omitieron el sexenio de Felipe Calderón, presidente que desató la violencia y corrupción sistemática en torno a la "guerra frontal contra el narco". O son muy malos analistas o tienen una agenda política marcada.
De acuerdo, quiero creer que son mediocres compilando información de algo que no intentan entender, porque es muy obvio para quien quiere entender donde esta el punto de inflexión cuando se habla de la violencia en México, ni una palabra de la CIA, y la DEA, ni una palabra de García Luna...
As a Mexican I find this very offensive.... (while pointing assault rifle to the monitor screen)
The beginning of the U.S. Movie industry coincided with Mexico's ten year ultra violent civil War, 1911- early 1920s.
That's random, LOL. Here's another one: during world war II when Hollywood suffered, Mexico had a Renaissance in cinema. This time is known as the Golden age of Mexican Cinema. With actors like Pedro Infante. We're neighbors, we just piggyback off each other I guess LOL
@@manichispanic5234 "The Three Amigos", that Chevy Chase comedy from c1990 was about Americans getting caught up in that war. They were silent movie stars with only a vague approximation of Mexican reality, being thrown into the c1916 reality. Germany made an ill-timed reconquista proposal that Mexico was in no position to take up, and we used that as an excuse to do what the Wilson admin wanted to do. If Roosevelt had won in '12 we might have entered before 1914. Taft?
Another interesting factoid: Mexico's Civil War over a century ago killed more people (upwards of a million out of 15 million residents back then) than the ongoing Cartel Wars (which began in 2006)...
Communities are not under the thumb of violence gangs, they are communities of violent gangs. It’s not some disconnected problem, it’s their society.
makes no sense there are three states in the US where Mexicans constitute the largest group, coming at 60million in the US alone that would have to be the largest gang in history enough to take continents. this isn't including the rest of Latin america
Yes, all children in Mexico are born violent gangsters from infancy. It's got to do with certain chemicals in the water, which also make frogs gay.
calling them all gangsters isn't fair or useful. little villages are out-gunned and out-spent, but they still fight back with citizen militias and local alliances. It is poverty, and it's changing.
Governments are the most violent gangs.
You been to Mexico?
It seems, intuitively, that if the US legalized ALL drugs and made them available over the counter in standardized dosages, the cartels would go out of business, but unfortunately the cartels have diversified their business operations into human trafficking and avocados (!) so although legalizing drugs might make a large dent in cartel profits, they seem powerful enough to just start making money in other ways. Once a group has power and money, it is difficult to root out. (look at our own (US) government).
You are very correct.
The Cartels have become too powerful. All because of negligent by the U.S Gov.
Just like CHINA!
Or Communists!
Or anything start with the C.
Legalizing will never work, how naive you have to be? Like legalizing marijuana went well...
If you legalize it, then the cartels will just under cut the US government by selling it for cheaper. Just like they did with pot.
They did so with oxycontin/oxycodon which triggered heroinwave 2.0 after the first one after 70/80's.
Organized crime syndicates are obsessed with making money and exercising control, and they're gonna do that whichever way possible (and will always choose the options that are the most lucrative).
American drug money. Pretty easy actually. I have no idea if further industry would cut back the violence, with good access to good jobs, but we will see. As industry leaves China for Mexico, I expect life will get a little better.
Yes and no, drug cartels and violence can’t occur without the the support or blind eye of politicians and police officer. A good example of this, Is 80% of crime in Mexico doesn’t get solved.
American drug addiction and money really just pours motor oil on that.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 and the easy access to guns in the USA that are sent to Mexico, (sometimes even backed by the us government), remember fast and furious?
@@yaddar Yes, let’s quote the Fast and the Furious as reality, lol. But yes we all know American guns end up in Mexico.
American high demand for drugs.
American high supply of assault weapons.
America’s blind eye at the corruption going on in Mexico and continuing to do business with these same corrupt politicians. Obama & the CIA/DEA knew about the Calderon Presidency being heavily involved in protecting the Sinaloa Cartel.
@@darthjarjar5309 America really can’t do anything about Mexico’s corrupt politicians.
Do another one of why the US is so violent.
The macho "chingon" or "my way or the highway" attitude was glorified and encouraged on and to young men in the country, just listen to old folk Mexican songs all the way up to today's music. When generations are raised with these attitudes, only bad things are bound to happen.
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Lies
Yeah a lot of my tios are arrogant and ignorant I feel like it keeps people dumb asf
Nixon was a great president who abolished the draft, ended LBJ's Vietnam War, and opened relations with China. The host is jealous of Nixon's hair. 👴
Ez answer: THE US
The host needs to use the proceeds from this video to whiten his teeth😂😂😂😂😂
ya bro shits more scary then the cartels
At least people are not afraid of going to school or to a supermarket and being shot by a psycho😮 Most of Mexico is peaceful, but US media prefer to focus on the border and other areas with strong narco activities.
An American citizen would have to be crazy to disregard the numerous warnings from the US state department and venture into Mexico.
American Govt. should send all its drug addicts in rehabilitation center . No buyer , no seller .
They won't because they gonna lose big money they are the big mafia
AMLO will make some improvements to the drug cartel issue in Mexico, but not decrease their acvity, it is going to take longer
Even at 1X normal speed, it sounds like he's going 4X.
I wonder if the effectiveness of El Salvador, in this problem can work in Mexico. Sacrifice some liberties to have a peaceful, prosperous nation. El Salvador criminalized EVERYTHING Gang/Narco. Zero glorification, no gang/narco-music, no gang/narco-tattoos, no gang/narco-cemeteries, no gang hand gestures, or else. Germany had to do the same in their Denazification.
The problem is Mexico is infinitely larger than El Salvador, also the gangs are infinitely more powerful than those in El Salvador. The only way this could work out well for the Mexican government is if they were to launch a huge non stop coalition against the Cartels nd give them extreme and severe punishments. Nd as u said, prohibit any symbol used by the Cartels as well as any propaganda spread by them.
I appreciate the video. This sheds light on the problems our neighbor to the south has.
You speak like if the the US were any less violent or had any less problems.
@@Bootes_Void Its true. The earth is a rough planet to live on. Even the USA has its problems & its dangers. We have serious issues to deal with. Having said that I would rather live in the USA than any other.
I think the USA is the world's prettiest country, but that is a matter of opinion
What's not a matter of opinion is facts I am going to share with you.
We have a constitution that guarantees more individual freedoms than any country in the world.
In America I have squeaky clean police record. I think in any other country I could be imprisoned because I say what I think on controversial issues. I own a lot of different weapons in America. {all of which are legal} In any other country {including Mexico} I could be imprisoned for that.
America is a much less violent country than Mexico.
While our cities with populations of 200k or more have a lot of violent crime, most small rural & suburban communities have low rates of violent crime. The rural violence in California & the southern border are an exception to the rule. Mexico on the other hand has a terrible situation with both urban & rural violence.
I will share what I Googled with you about current crime statistics. My sources of information are World Population Review & Wise Voter.
Out of the top 136 countries on World Population Reviews charts, United States ranks 56 in crime with an index of 47.81 & a population of 339996563. Mexico ranks 39 with an index of 54.19 & a population of 128455517.
Wise Voter had a chart of top 96 countries for murder. The USA ranked 28. Female murder rate .85 per 100k, Male murder rate 10.51 per 100k, overall murder rate 6.52 per 100k. Mexico ranked 4. Female murder rate 6.01 per 100k, Male murder rate 51.27 per 100k, overall murder rate 28.37.
No he wont improve anything. But he can always blame Spain for it.
Ok quispe
My parents used to take us to Mexico in our summer breaks, I took my kids in their summer breaks. But it came to a point that I was not able to do these fun trips anymore. Too bad, the locals are nice, most were wonderful and even helpful. But you know, the bad people have ruin things.
It’s in their Aztec DNA
The north region is violent and the Aztecs were from central Mexico it doesn’t make sense?
Probably the same reason it was violent, when the Conquistadors came along and put an end to the brutal human sacrifice that was wiping out entire villages
Conquistadors came wielding swords, then you add pre-Columbian sacrifice, it's a culture born from violence.
Awesome is what Mexico is!
Why is Mexico so violent ?
Simply because of the abnormally high demand for narcotics in the USA.
Mexico is violent due to the USA. Reagan and its administration finance the Sandinistas and dark ops with drug money. Let's not forget US citizens'insane appetite for illicit drugs. Also the USA illegal guns going into Mexico are fueling violence. It's known that the USA trained Mexico's secret police that cracked down on students which is known as the Tlatelolco massacre.
Viva México 🇲🇽💪🏽