1. Mexico Drug War
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2. Presentation of the theme
• Monitoring of « Mexico Drug War » deals about problems of
drug trafficking in Mexico, by explaining the violence of
cartels, drug market in United-States, and dispositions made
by the mexican and American autorities.
• Drug Cartel: Criminal organizations, organised in order to
control drug trafficking operations and territories. Mexican
drug cartels now dominate the entiry drug market in United-
States and we can see an important accroissement of violence
to control territories.
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3. Drug Cartel Areas in Mexico
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4. Drug Cartel Area in Mexico
• Los Zetas: One of the most important cartel in Mexico and
probably the most violent, because of members issue of the army
special forces. Blamed for the largest acts of drug violence, also
against civilians.
• Sinaloa: Mexico’s most Powerful and richest cartel by building
tunnels under the border of United-States, and known because of
the « most-wanted » drug leader : Joaquin GUZMAN, « El Chapo ».
• Juarez: City in Border to the United-States; and once of
the most dangerous city in the world because of the
perpetual battle between Sinaloa and Los Zetas.
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5. Violence and conflicts because of the
Drug trafficking, in Mexico
In Red: The most dangerous states in Mexico because of conflicts of drug trafficking,
battle between cartels, kidnapping, civilians killed…
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6. Target Audience
• I choose this subject because of the
importance of drug traffickingin Mexican lifes,
and the internationalisation of drug markets
by mexican cartels.
• To demonstrate the importance of violence in
mexican cities.
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7. Watch Strategy
• Feed RSS:
 Tim Johnson: Journalist, investigator, blogger:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/tim-johnson/index.atom
 Los Angeles Times : The drug war at our doorstep:
http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/feeds/archive/
 Huffingtonpost : actualities, news about a special subject, here :Mexico’s drug war
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/mexico-drug-wars/feed/
• Newsletter:
 Stop the Drug War : http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle
• Blog
 Professional Blog, written by a professional woman about the question of drug
trafficking and conflict between United States and Mexico:
http://borderviolenceanalysis.typepad.com/
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