cartel land relfection

Cartel land entailed many scenes that gave me many mixed emotions. The first scene was about how some of the meth cooks only do what they do to make a living. My response is that there is always another route one can take instead of selling drugs but after listening to them talk and back up there reasoning, one has to realize that drugs are more of a norm in Mexico. At first i was extremly angry because they are part of the reason for the war on drugs in the United States, but i do also feel sad that they are in such poverty that they have to turn to making and distrubing drugs for lifestyle. Not to mention, it helps fund the autodefensas, which is a group that fights against the cartels, so it really makes one question what is the right thing to do in this situation? There was another scene where one of the main characters was talking about how his neighbors were all beheaded by the templars, and he was next. His response was that he had to decide how he wanted to die; to die fighitng or basically be a sitting duck. This really makes you think, because would you go out and get a gun and hunt down those hunting you or would you run and hope to not get caught?
One of the main things that surprised me was the lack of trust in the government and the military. We don't have that problem here so it is a bit suprising to see how a different country operates as opposed to us. The fact that the people in Mexico can't rely on the goverment to protect them makes me suprised as well, as thats something we usually take for granted here in the United States. It was also suprising to me how dangerous the cartels really are. I knew they were always bad news but this documentary illistrated prime examples of how corupt and terrible they are actually capable of being. One scene was about how someone who owned a lime farm owed the templar cartel money, in response the cartel killed all of their lime pickers; children and babies included. Babies were smashed against rocks and thrown down wells. The worst part of it all is that they will never get justice for the innocent lives that were lost.
I really question how things got so bad in Mexico and how did it become so corupt. I think there should be more of an effort to fix the goverment problems rather than using more violence to go after the cartels. However, i do see that as a really hard task when the goverment works with the cartels. Overall, i feel bad for the people of Mexico who have to worry day in and day out if the templars will harm them or their loved ones.
Some problematic concepts that say with me revolve around the cartels and the future of Mexico. The Autodefensas were suppose to be the good guys who stopped the cartels but they ended up turning into a corupt group of their own; How is Mexico going to handle all the cartels arising? and how are they going to put an end to organized crime? I also see a problem with the border patrol. The movie made it seem as if there is not much security with stopping drug smugglers. In this case, i see this feeding into the United States' drug problem, which also brings me to question, what happens if the cartels get just as bad in the United States? The biggest overall problem i see is trying to find the right solution to taking care of the cartels and resticting them from expanding not just in Mexico, but in the United States as well.