How did the Mexican drug war get so bad?

I am researching for a history paper about the Mexican drug war and I'm trying to look into how it got so bad, when the drug trade really originated, when it escalated, who was involved, etc.


Does anybody have any primary sources they can suggest? Secondary sources?|||Watch this on you tube, it's in spanish, but it's a very accurate history report on the drug cartles going back to El Rey De Los Cielos who really started it all, he used to rule all the drug cartels in Mexico so everything was calm cause they had 1 leader, but when he was killed the drug cartles broke off and all started to battle each other for power continuing to today. If you want a full translation of this email me.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0msKyfzi鈥?/a>|||In the 1990s Clinton sent US Special Forces to help train Mexican Special Forces. At first it worked out quite well, with the Mexican SF troops putting a dent in the drug trade. Then the drug cartels simply started offering a choice of a suitcase full of money or dead family members to the SF soldiers and they took the money.





So now, you have US trained SF troops working for the drug cartels.|||mexico has always had a greedy government and corruption was an accepted necessity to maintain power,when drug dealers and growers were bribing the officials things were al right every body shared in the loot,also it was not to bad for Mexico because 99% of those drugs were destined for the northern gringos,and most all Mexicans have a hatred that's been going on since we ran them clear down to Mexico city.but when we started pressuring mexico to stop the drug flow and destroy poppy fields they said they couldn't cause they didn't have the money or equipment to do it,so we gave them the stuff needed to do the job,but still they didn't seem to accomplish any good,but when drug addiction in america rose to such great heights we put more and more pressure on them,finally they started doing some real work stopping the drug cartells,that pissed of the cartels and they started fighting the government,also they started shipping guns back to mexico and that is considered a threat to the government so now that they are reaping an unwanted reward from drug trade they want us to stop the guns from getting into mexico,we have also been trying to get mexico to stop illegal entry in to america,but they wont cooperate.they couldn't stop 10,00 illegals per day from crossing but expect us to stop 18,00 guns per year from going in to mexico,finally the drug disputes have spilled over in to our country,drug Lords vieing for top dog and murder and killing is their way of doing things they don't care if you are an innocent bystander or an american citizen|||Because the gringos are the world biggest drugs consumers. The Colombians are the world largest drug producers. Mexico is a country that stand between the suppliers and the consumers of drugs.