Nowadays Mexico is mostly known as one of the world’s largest consumer economics and moreover, as one of the biggest drug producers and sellers. Rapid growing number of criminal cartels in the country priory benefit from drug trading. Unfortunately, Mexico has a weak judicial system and police institutions. Hereby, the government cannot neither diminish the cartels’ activity, nor control them. Definitely, many actions both inside the country and within the international cooperation were made in order to change the situation. In order to understand the reason of social deviance and inactivity of native civilians in such circumstances a Theory of Relative Deprivation can be used.
Hereby, the paper is organized in the following order: the first part will briefly describe the general situation with criminal cartels in Mexico. The second part is more oriented on the Theory of Relative Deprivation and its relevance in the described situation. The third part of the paper shows the importance of international cooperation in order to resolve the long lasting problem with DTOs in Mexico.
