Claim #2
Greed for money and more power is what got the whole drug war started. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman started the whole drug war when El Padrino initially distributed his empire (Mexico) among his top lieutenants. That’s when El Chapo saw that the other territories were gaining a lot of power and fast so he wanted to outpower the rest of the cartels (Borderland Beat: Mexico's Cartels and How it Got to This). The greed for money and power has also been a root cause for drug cartels and drug trafficking because it brings fast and easy money. This cause goes hand in hand with poverty because once the poor get a taste of money and power they want more of it. They’ll do whatever they can and whatever they have to in order to get their money and to be the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico. They also want to own as much trafficking territory as they can.