Both articles, “Drug war apparently has Mexican’s president attention” and “Mexican drug cartel activity in U.S. said to be exaggerated in widely cited federal report,” include the Mexican drug cartels as a major issue. The difference is that the issue in the first article stated occurs in Mexico, while the second one occurs in the United States. Damien Cave discusses the Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and how he is trying to put a stop to the drug trafficking. The Mexican government and the United States are working together on this matter in order to defeat the endless and reckless acts of the drug cartels. In the second article, several authors, discuss how the cartels are now operating in the U.S. and there are many criminal cases in the United States concerning the Mexican drug cartels. The article quotes, “The cartels, the Arizona Republican said, now maintain a presence in over 1,000 cities” (Higham, Horwitz & Rich, 2013). In both articles, they maintain the same point of view, which is that the Mexican drug cartels are polluting their cities and are impacting their communities in a negative way. In addition, these articles are prominent. They show a great deal of importance because it is a growing issue that is no longer affecting only Mexico but it is affecting the United States.
References
Cave, D. (2013). Drug war apparently has Mexican’s president attention. NY Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/americas/drug-war-apparently-has-mexican-presidents-attention.html?ref=drugtrafficking&_r=0
Higham, S., Horwitz, S. & Rich, S. (2013). Mexican drug cartel activity in U.S. said to be exaggerated in widely cited federal report. The Washington Post. Received from http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-25/news/41446484_1_cartels-dea-drug-trafficking
Information Literacy: Conflicts 