In 2000 President Vicente Fox took power in Mexico, vowing to combat the growing levels of crime that had been on the rise since the early ’90’s. With a core population of 8 million citizens–equal to that of New York City–the Distrito Federal (D.F.) is stifled by a widely corrupt police force only two-thirds the size of their American counterparts. Combined with this grossly underpaid and understaffed police force is a massive flow of drugs from Colombia. Everything from cocaine to heroin to marijuana is funneled through the capital on it’s way north. Locally, it is trafficked for the cartels by local gangs. There are international repercussions to drugs in D.F.: the United Nations estimates that 90% of all cocaine used in the United States is smuggled from South America through Mexico City. Violence against journalists has...
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