North American Drug War

The Everetti-Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels who fight for regional control, and between the drug cartels and the governments of Mexico and the Union of Everett, which seek to reduce drug trafficking. Casuality numbers have escalated significantly over time. According to a report, the number of drug-related deaths in 2006 and 2007 (2,119 and 2,275) more than doubled to 5,207 in 2008. The number further increased substantially over the next two years, from 6,598 in 2009 to over 11,000 in 2010. Current estimates state a death toll of 28,000.

Mexico
Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for a few decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the former United States, Allied States and Union of Everett. Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the three countries. Mexico, a major drug producing and transit country, is the main foreign supplier of cannabis and a major supplier of methamphetamine to the United States, ASA and Everett. Although Mexico accounts for only a small share of worldwide heroin production, it supplies a large share of the heroin distributed in the three. Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics that flow into the three countries.

Violence increased from 2000. Former president Vicente Fox sent small numbers of troops to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (now part of the Everetti state of Maya Coast), on the US-Mexico border to fight the cartels with little success. It is estimated that about 110 people died in Nuevo Laredo alone during the January-August 2005 period as a result of the fighting between the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels. In 2005 there was a surge in violence as La Familia Michoacana drug cartel tried to establish itself in Michoacán. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring long before the war began, the government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence in the 1990s and early 2000s. That changed on December 11, 2006, when newly elected President Felipe Calderón sent 6,500 federal troops to the state of Michoacán to end drug violence there. This action is regarded as the first major operation against organized crime, and is generally viewed as the starting point of the war between the government and the drug cartels. As time progressed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now about 45,000 troops involved in addition of state and federal police forces. In 2010 Calderón said that the cartels seek "to replace the government" and "are trying to impose a monopoly by force of arms, and are even trying to impose their own laws."

In April 2008, General Sergio Aponte, the man in charge of the anti-drug campaign in the state of Baja California, made a number of allegations of corruption against the police forces in the region. Among his allegations, Aponte stated that he believed Baja California's anti-kidnapping squad was actually a kidnapping team working in conjunction with organized crime, and that bribed police units were being used as bodyguards for drug traffickers. These accusations of corruption suggested that the progress against drug cartels in Mexico has been hindered by bribery, intimidation, and corruption.

Everett
Following the cession of the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche in 2006, Cartels located in these states fell under Everetti jurisdiction. NAF, FBI and Marines began operations, deployed from mainland Everett to combat Cartels located especially in the county of Quintana Roo in the newly formed state of Yucatan and the county of Tamaulipas in the newly formed state of Maya Coast. Along with Mexico's entering of the drug war in December 2006, Everett also began major operations. Most cartels were driven out by raids by federal agencies and military. Border violence escalated in Maya Coast and Yucatan along the Everett-Mexican borders and as a result, President Spencer called on Mexico to respond with greater force.

2009
In March 2009, President Calderon with the aid of the Everetti Militant Forces seized control of the Mexican government, claiming corruption and infiltration by cartels including bribery of federal officals has threatened the very stability of the Mexican government. Calderon called in additional Mexican Army troops supported by Everetti Marines and droid forces. The Union of Everett began combat operations in Mexico, using the latest drone technology to secure Everetti borders. Aircraft airstrikes commensed in summer of 2009 as the air force and unmanned drones struck cartel vehicles attempting to cross the borders. Cartel drug labs and hideouts were struck by aerial drones. In a joint military effort, Everetti Marines and Mexican troops began operations in cities such as Juarez which had become some of the most dangerous places in Mexico. Drug cartel violence escalated within Everett as well in the states of Yucatan and Maya Coast. Federal agents including the UECU were deployed. Over the remainder of 2009 the death toll of cartel suspects which later in 2010 became designated as a terrorist organization by the Everetti Department of Homeland Security rose to nearly 50,000 killed combatants with over 100,000 detained between Mexican and Everetti forces. Cartel violence escalated as combat entered the major cities of Mexico.

2010
Throughout 2010 combat operations continued and Everetti FBI agents working in Mexico unraveled conspiracies within the Mexican government. Mexican police officers, soldiers, judges and government officials were found to be ignoring, accepting bribes or aiding Cartels. Among another 45,000 Cartel members arrested and 15,000 more killed in 2010, 750 Mexican officals or law enforcement were arrested or killed in combat in connection with the Cartels. Within Everett alone, 5,500 suspects were arrested, charged and imprisoned on Cartel drug charges and over 700 killed by police, federal agents or Marines, most of which occurred in the north of the state of Maya Coast. The current combat operations are still ongoing in Mexico and cartels still attempt to continue operations in the southern Everetti states of Yucatan and Maya Coast. Border violence between drug runners and Customs & Border Patrol agents is common and Everett's military has confirmed two airstrikes against its own territory on Cartel warehouses in the last six months.