Mexican government failing to provide decent jobs for vulnerable youth – leaving the door open to cartel recruitment

By Raul Zepeda Gil, Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Oxford

Mexico’s “war on drugs” began in 2006, when the newly elected president, Felipe Calderón, ordered thousands of troops onto the streets in an attempt to combat drug violence.

The results have been disastrous. The government’s military operations have forced drug cartels to recruit intensively to protect their trafficking routes, and homicide rates have soared. In 2021, 28 in every 100,000 people were killed in Mexico – around three…

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