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Legalize drugs. It’s the only real way to end the violence.
Legalization is the only way to kneecap drug cartels at this point. You won’t get Justice to these crime families but you can at least regain a semblance of control over your country that way.
It might be too late. It might have worked at some point in the past, but Mexico waited too long. At this point those organizations are engraved in Mexican goods and services
Search for any of these if you want more info, but the variety might give you a clue:
Source: Mexican-American with family living in Mexico. Cartels tend to keep things under control to avoid conflict once they have a territory and tend to only go after people criticizing them, which makes it a slow horrible realization once they move to a town near by.
Edit: to end things on a more positive note, it is worth noting that even with all the above, you still have students, young YouTubers and comedians of high profile (that are internationally well liked) criticizing the status quo from the government (and their involvement with cartels). Organized crime would be dumb to go after some of these people if they want it to remain a Mexican problem.