How NAFTA Facilitates Drug Trafficking

Here is a good analysis of what NAFTA really did to Mexico:

Signed in 1994, NAFTA was sold to the Mexican people as a one-way ticket out of third-world poverty. For the narcos, however, it was a godsend, for the following three reasons:

1) NAFTA lowered the U.S.-Mexico’s border’s drawbridge for all purveyors of goods, whether legal or illegal.

2) NAFTA created a fertile breeding ground for narco foot soldiers.

3) NAFTA made it much easier for drug traffickers to move their money.

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Now ... you could say that all these were unintended consequences of NAFTA, but that would make you an idiot.