Mexican Drug Cartels Flourish: U.S. Agencies Deliberate On What To Do Next

The Mexican drug cartels aren't being hindered, in fact, they are 'flourishing under Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and presenting a direct threat to the national security of the United States, former and current officials with the DEA, Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

For the DEA it is a battle that has raged since the DEA was founded in 1973. The war was in full swing by 1985 when undercover DEA Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, was brutaly tortured and  murdered by "El Padrino," the co-founder of the of the once powerful Guadalajara drug cartel.