Claim #1
One of the root causes of drug cartels is the amount of money that is made and how easily it is made. According to Mexico’s public safety secretary, Mexico makes $64 billion dollars from sales of illegal drugs to the United States mostly coming from marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and methamphetamine. Here is an example of why so much money is made and how it is made in a short period of time. The cartels can buy a kilo of cocaine in Colombia for around $2,000, then the value expands. In Mexico, that kilo is sold for more than $10,000. Jump to the United States, and it could sell for $30,000. Break it down into grams to distribute and that same kilo sells for around $100,000. And that’s just cocaine. Imagine how much money cartel members get when they marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine to. Also Mexico makes $64 billion just from drugs that are sold in the US but drugs get exported to other countries as well. This is an economic issue because drug cartels take advantage of poorer communities and given that cartels make money as fast as they do, anybody that needs money would do anything possible to make that money.