The New NAFTA

[Dill]

(10-10-2018, 02:22 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Pretty much that. With the massive increase in free trade, Ive read elsewhere that maybe 10% of imported cargo if that could be thoroughly inspected for illicit drugs, because of the lack of manpower to do so.

Another researched aspect is that as cheap U.S. agriculture goods flooded into Mexico due to NAFTA, it hurt Mexico's farmers big time. And as a result there was an increase of cultivating of drug crops as a way to make money. 

Here is an article about it from COHA's site. Also just do a google search like "nafta drug trade"

http://www.coha.org/nafta-and-drug-trafficking-perpetuating-violence-and-the-illicit-supply-chain/

http://latinamericanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-230   about halfway down briefly talks about NAFTA

Informative. Thanks for the links, Mill.