Drugs to Death in a Political Cartoon An Oversimplification

Drugs to Death in a Political Cartoon: An Oversimplification? As the more stable counterpart to an inconsistent southern neighbor, the United States has always had a suspicious outlook towards Mexico. In recent years, the boost in illegal immigration, the unstable economies in both countries and the issues resulting from drug use and trade have added tension to the already strained relationship. Blame flows and lands on various subjects: each government, drug cartels, drug users, and more. In the October 2009 political cartoon posted by David Kurtzman ¹ , various angles are used to portray the cartoonist’s opinion that blame should be limited to one party: the drug cartels. Through the use of color, stereotypes, and†¦show more content†¦In fact, Mexico’s president Felipe Calderà ³n took the first step against the conern of drug violence that no other president has dared to take on in the past. He has cracked down on drug dealers by jailing them and allowing small masses of drugs in an effort to lower profits for the cartels. These efforts, while perhaps are not always effective, are the first attempts to fight back against the power of the cartels and Young 4 the violence that exploded as a result of the drug trade. Their conquest in this cartoon to a donkey with the pressure of being suspended and isolated in the air is a distortion of the truth. Yet, Mexico is blended in by various images in the cartoon. An overused Americanized symbol, the pià ±ata puts down Mexican culture’s diversity and vitality. By depicting an entire diverse country as a helpless object, the cartoonist constructs ethos for himself by apparently being able to make large reflections about multiple issues, implying that he has a sound and depicts the grasp of the subject. Similarly, The lack of resources and, perhaps, their misuse (one tree is used to string up Mexico itself) indicated that the Mexican government is unfit to stand up to the dominant drug cartel figure. The crude luster of the pià ±ata lends further burden to that claim,Show MoreRelatedProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 Pagesto Text Topics Chapter 1 Modern Project Management Chapter 8 Scheduling resources and cost 1.2 Project defined 1.3 Project management defined 1.4 Projects and programs (.2) 2.1 The project life cycle (.2.3) App. G.1 The project manager App. G.7 Political and social environments F.1 Integration of project management processes [3.1] 6.5.2 Setting a schedule baseline [8.1.4] 6.5.3.1 Setting a resource schedule 6.5.2.4 Resource leveling 7.2 Setting a cost and time baseline schedule (1.3.5) [8.1.3] 6