Dana Armstrong Professor Tony Russell Writing 1218 April 2014 Copy-and-Paste Plagiarism Since 2006, more than 60,000 people have been killed in DTO-related violence and more than 26,000 have disappeared. Violence has spread from rural Mexico to big cities like Guadalajara and Mexico City, where, last May, gunmen kidnapped 12 young people from a nightclub. A first step towards controlling cartels would be to better understand how they work. Mexican drug trafficking organizations are a collection of criminal enterprises. Some, like the Gulf Cartel, have existed for decades; others, like Los Gueros, are relatively new. Without a clearer idea of ​​what the DTOs are doing, the violence will only continue. Paraphrase Plagiarism Since 2006, approximately 60,000 people have died due to DTO violence and approximately 26,000 have disappeared. Drug cartel violence has spread throughout Mexico in cities like Mexico City. Last May the Mexican army kidnapped 10 young people from a club. One step officials could take to control the cartels would be to understand how they work. Drug trafficking organizations are made up of criminals of people who have been part of the cartel for decades such as the Gulf Cartel; others are a bit new like Los Gueros. The violence will only continue without a better idea of ​​what the cartels are doing. Summary In Evelyn Krache Morris's newspaper article titled "Think Again: Mexican Drug Cartels," she highlights the influence that Mexican drug cartels have on violence in large cities in Mexico and the United States. Drug trafficking organizations are on the rise and approximately 80,000 people have been killed or fatally injured as a result of the violence. Big cities like Guadalajara and Mexi... center of paper... smuggling of drugs like cocaine, heroin and ecstasy will remain illegal, leaving crime for those drugs to be as high as marijuana. If legalization of all drugs were considered, cartels would continue to have human and weapons trafficking to make their profits. Evelyn Krache Morris makes the point by comparing the U.S. legalization of the painkiller known as oxycodone to the legalization of other drugs. Although oxycodone is legal in the United States, it is firmly controlled by law. Drug restrictions through the law allow for greater demand for drugs, so people pay higher amounts per pill. This will speak in favor of legal drugs in the cartel. (p 32) Works Cited Morris, Evelyn Krache. “Think Again: Mexican Drug Cartels.” Foreign Policy 203 (2013): 30-33. Premier of academic research. Network. April 8. 2014.