Border

As the border situation has deteriorated over the past four years the news has focused on the negative effects in the United States but there is another side to the story and that is the problems in Mexico. Mexico is slowly becoming a narco-state. (A situation where a country's leadership is involved in drug trafficking and production, and top-down policies are implemented to support these activities. According to the Washington Post the cartels made $500 billion in 2023. That represents one third of the Mexican GDP.