Oscar Martinez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail is an epic story on how Martinez journey to reach the other side of the border. From interviewing migrants to narcos, discussing the daily routines on how the “system” is organized. Martinez’s fight begins from the southern tip of the Mexican border and he travels his way to the top. Martinez travels to various cities and explains how each of them are invaded by Narcos. How each and everyone are affected by them and how is society shape cause of them. The main issue Martinez repeatedly talks about is drug trafficiking and what consequences migrants/civilians have to face cause of it. It is not problem that has only gangs, mafias and cartels involved. Pretty…show more content… In the first section I discussed about the The Beast, again how repeatedly Martinez writes about how he has to come across cartels and gangs. How government officials are playing along the system and how migrants are put in fear. How changes to stop drug trafficking cause U.S border Patrol to strengthen security which caused “funneling”, putting migrants lives at risk. Second section, I explain based on the article “Who Started the Mexican Drug War?” Cartels fighting over turfs making routes almost impossible to cross. How Mexican government efforts affected drug traffickers. Statistics comparison based on the years and Presidential election. Who is it really to blame on the eruption of crime and unjustice done to migrants. Third parts will be illustrating how U.S and Mexican politics are all involved in helping drug-traffickers accomplish they trafficking. (ex. Governments policies, money laundering, corporations) Finally, the last section demonstrates how innocent lives are lost and is causing unbalance to U.S-Mexican relations. The U.S efforts from stopping drug-traffickers were instead causing disturbance in both countries
