"Rules of Attraction" Number Two

There's no doubt that the amount of drugs in this country is an issue. The homemade drugs, such as methamphetamine, aren't being apprehended at the border between Mexico and the United States as much as cocaine and marijuana are for example. But there's an even deeper problem than just the drugs, but rather the gang wars and other gang related issues that follow these drugs being taken across the border.
In the book "Rules of Attraction", the main character Carlos gets caught up in between the drug gang wars. In Mexico he was apart of the gang, Guerreros del Barrio, and his Mexican connections made him a valuable asset for a drug lord named Wes Devlin in organizing the drug movements across the borders. Drug trafficking is continuing to increase, but that still makes the Mexican drug smugglers still very uncertain about the drug buyers here in the United States in case they're going to sell them out. But one of the reasons that Devlin recruited Carlos, was his boys were about to get in a drug war with another gang called R6. The drug smuggling from Mexico to the United States is a huge business, and its certainly not slowing down at all even with increased drug crackdowns, and border patrol officers.
Since 2006, there has been a Mexican drug war that is active in both Mexico and the United States over who controls the majority of the drug transportation and territory. The drug trafficking industry in Mexico is estimated at fifty billion dollars, and is also thought that if the drug industry was to completely disappear from Mexico, the economy would shrink by over sixty three percent. The six big drug cartels that are centered in Mexico, but also have influence in the United States are; Arellano-Felix Organization or the Tijuana cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, Vicente Carillo Fuentes Organization or the Juárez Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, La Familia Cartel, and the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. Each of these drug cartels are fighting to make the most money, have the most amount of territory, and none of them are afraid to use violence to get what they want.
Many of these drug cartels will force migrants traveling from Central America and Mexico to carry drugs for them across the border, and if they refuse, they will kill them. Many also operate as coyotes as well, demanding high amounts of money, and for assistance in transporting the drugs.
The drug trafficking industry is an extremely profitable but yet very dangerous and often deadly operation to join. And it doesn't look like its slowing down at all, if anything the tensions are continuing to rise.