The Results of Low Infrastructural Power in Argentina

Argentina used to be a complicit partner in the international drug trade through its participation as a hub and trade route for drug smuggling. But as various narcotics agencies in large drug production nations have constricted and damaged many large-scale drug operations in their own borders, it has bubbled up in other places such as Argentina. Even more discouraging, is that the response from Argentine authorities has been weak and funding to combat an exponentially expanding drug production and distribution network has only been increased by 6% for the coming fiscal year. Keeping in mind that independent economic sources place Argentine inflation at around 25% it becomes clear that this is in fact a worrisome decrease in narcotics enforcement funding that will surely allow the drug empires in Argentina to snowball to ever more power.
     It seems to be the low infrastructural power resulting from weak state institutions and an ineffective bureaucracy that have allowed this ballooning to occur in Argentina. Hopefully, Argentina can reach a critical juncture that causes an institutional development which makes possible the strict and effective enforcement of laws relating to narcotics. Until that happens though, the drug lords will ensure the most negative of persistence by continuing to perpetuate and defend the extractive economic institutions that they have created to extract money from the Argentine people and state through the drug trade and drug related crime will continue to sky-rocket, naturally lowering quality of life for the Argentine people.