Drug Trafficking: The Wrong War - Opinion No Request

For: Carlos E. Ricalde Peniche United States fights drug trafficking looking south and not towards its own territory. In the fight against drug trafficking, it has projected for decades a convenient narrative: the problem is in Mexico, mainly. Drugs come from the south, cartels flourish on Mexican soil and the violence generated by drug trafficking seems to have a unique direction: towards the neighbors of the north. This conventional view of re…