DHS is a cabinet unit of the U.S. federal government (Mark 278
The arrest of a FARC figure in Mexico convinced American and Mexican authorities of a Colombian link to the Arellano-Felix-run Tijuana cartel. The states department trusted that FARC supplied cocaine to the Tijuana cartel in order to receive weapons and cash (McCollum 31)
Drug cartels are using illicit weapons Imported from America to control major sections of Mexico. This trend raises fears of terrorists' mafias controlling Northern Mexico parts and this not only threatens the country, its citizens and properties, it also acts as threat to the United States (Morales 141)
The convergence entails a dynamic that allows both entities to benefit financially. This convergence, which entails long-term and short-term agreements, exists along a continuum and its aim is to exchange expertise such as counterfeiting, bomb-making or money laundering, or operational support that enhances access to the smuggling routes (Piazza 299)
Mexico: Terrorism and Organized Crime The convergence in numerous means of organized criminal activities that include terrorism and drug trafficking is a developing concern in the United States and the entire world. Some professionals in this filed imply that the increasing number of cases of terrorism and organized crime groups are jointly coordinated and the trend is increasingly developing into a worldwide phenomenon (Rollins 2)
The government of Mexico, police, judicial infrastructure and politicians face sustained pressure and assault from criminal gangs and drug cartels. International criminal organizations that convergence via drug cartels in Mexico spawn massive amount of corruption, intimidation, violence, and threatens the security of towns and cities across America (Shanty and Mishra 187)
g., unmeasured storm water runoff entering from creeks) not identified in the Treaty, commonly known as "50/50 water" (Vina, 2005) However, eventually, when the usage of the Colorado River became more intense and the U
started to use the saline groundwater from its side of the border, on the other side, there were massive damages in the sense that the saline water was reduced on the Mexican side. A resolution to this matter was found in 1973, which reduced and limited the groundwater withdrawals (Wolf and Newton, n
During the Mexican Revolution, legalized and regulated prostitution was promoted as a panacea for the problems it had been causing until then, such as sexually transmitted disease. As a result, good intentioned policymakers "promoted regulated prostitution as the best way to safeguard the health and moral welfare of all Mexicans," (Bliss, 2002, p
Many others are seduced into selling their children to what they are told will be adoption agencies; unfortunately, the agencies are really prostitution rings. "Entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution," (Brumback & Stevenson, 2010)
This has led to widespread prostitution rings that foment the problem of human trafficking. According to the United Nations, Mexico is the biggest exporter of young children to the United States and Canada (Hughes, Sporcic, Mendelsohn & Chirgwin, n
Just as Mexican prostitution is linked to prostitution rings that are transnational, the problems these organizations spread belong to the entire globe. Prostitution occurs openly in Mexico, although brothels, massage parlors, and sex bars sometimes go in and out of business rapidly due to occasional crackdowns or sudden losses of revenue (Penick, 2009)
Instead of finding themselves on a farm in California, they find themselves in a brothel or in apartments established purposely for the trade. The prostitution "corridor" extends from Mexico all the way to Canada (Ugarte, Zarate & Farley, 2003)
The rugged nature of this range which peaks in the state of Durango with several peaks more than 3,000 meters high is attested to by the fact that currently there are only two means of surface transportation, being a highway from Durango to Mazatlan and a railroad from Chihuahua to Los Mochis, traversing it. This incredibly beautiful region of Mexico "is gouged by a labyrinth of torturous canyons, from the 6,136-foot-deep Barranca de Urique in the north to the 7,500-foot-deep Barranca de Piaxtla in the south" (Annerino 60)
In the southeast, Mexico shares an 871-kilometer border with Guatemala and a 251-kilometer border with Belize. And like the northern border, these "are defined mostly by natural boundaries, such as rivers (the Rio Usumacinta and the Rio Hondo) and partly by artificial boundaries" (Arbingast 32)
The Verde Valley, to the north of Jalisco in the state of Aguascalientes, is also part of this geological formation. The basins to the west of Toluca are interconnected and relatively level and together they form an important sub-region known as El Bajio (flatlands) where "the rich volcanic ash and lacustrine soils from old lakebeds makes this area one of the most productive agricultural zones in the whole of Mexico" (Butland 71)
According to John Annerino, this region forms "a chain of fifty-five islands, islets and pinnacles that teem with myriad species of flora and fauna, often regarded by many naturalists as Mexico's Galapagos" (75). It has been suggested that Hernando Cortez, the famous Spanish conqueror of Mexico, described the topography of Mexico by crumbling up a piece of paper, throwing it down and stating "This is a map of Mexico" (Calvert 67)
Tropical forest covers much of the lowest western slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Cordillera Neo-Volcanica; such luxuriant flora can also be found in the Oaxaca. These forests "loose their leaves during the dry winter but are lush and verdant in the summer rainy season" (Lewis 82)
North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec the term mestizo was used for many years, while south of the isthmus, especially in the state of Chiapas, those of mixed Indian-Hispanic heritage were called Ladinos. However, in the Yucatan peninsula, the concept of metizo had a completely different meaning, for it referred to the indigenous Maya; thus, as anthropologist Julian Pitt-Rivers states "it was virtually impossible to make any statement about Indians or Mestizos that was applicable nationwide, for these concepts referred to highly qualitative and heterogeneous ethnic categories" (Ehrlich 214)
To the northeast, the Chiapas Highlands give way to the lowland tropical rain forest common to the southern Yucatan peninsula and the adjacent region of northern Guatemala known as El Peten. Moving northward up the Yucatan peninsula, "the dense jungle opens up to a tropical savanna and the extreme northern end is quite dry" (Lockwood 145)