This article talks about the drug cartels that are becoming worse in Mexico. Drug cartels have always been a bad event in Mexico, but now they are involving the witchcraft for protection because the drug lords are becoming so deadly and harmful to families. Children are being abducted daily, along with women. This truly is a terrible occurrence. Naturally people want answers and their answer is witchcraft. Police, family, and drug lords themselves are all paying these witches and warlocks to put a protection spell over them. These spells and charms cost about 100 to 180 US dollars each. It is pretty known that an average Mexican family barely makes that much in one month. This means they are spending this money, and cutting other resources out of their budget. This can only be detrimental the health and infrastructure of town.
People are spending what is an absurd amount of money for their culture for a protection charm, so what are leaving behind? The drug lords and maybe the policemen can afford it, but what about the average Mexican family. They have to not buy something. Generally, if the money is scarce, people tend to leave out health care. This means people are becoming sick and have no care or comfort. Not only is that a burden and risk to their family, but to the neighborhood. They are putting viruses and germs out there that can be easy contained. Another issue this shows is how bad of an infrastructure Mexico has. From lectures and other articles, we all know that corruption leads to a bad healthcare system and people not being able to access it in the first place.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/world/americas/mexicans-turn-to-witchcraft-to-ward-off-drug-cartels.html?_r=1&ref=mexico
Drug cartels have an incredible amount of power over many people in Mexico, unfortunately. The fact that people are pushed to the point where they are willing to spend a month's worth of wages on a protection spell says a lot about the lack of protection they are getting from the police and government. That hundred plus dollars could go to food, medicine, school, and the like. The government of Mexico as well as other countries need to step up and end this cycle.
ReplyDeleteThe drug cartels in Mexico are awful and are tearing people apart. It is sad to see something so horrid like this happen. I cannot believe people are paying money for the witchcraft spell. The fact that people are spending all their money on a spell rather than their health is ridiculous. Something needs to be done in Mexico to end this immediately or worse results will occur.
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