Mexican Drug War became the starting point of the war between the government and the drug cartels. Calderón escalated his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now about 45,000 troops involved in addition to state and federal police forces. In 2010 Calderón said that the cartels seek "to replace the government" and "are trying to impose a monopoly by force of arms, and are even trying to impose their own laws." As of 2011, Mexico's military captured 11,544 people who were believed to have been involved with the cartels and organized crime. In the year prior, 28,000 individuals were arrested on drug-related charges.
USS Guadalupe (AO-32) sailed along the Korean coast to support the siege of Wonsan harbor. An uneasy peace settled over the war-torn peninsula in August 1953, while "Guadalupe" was undergoing overhaul in California, but she returned to the Pacific to support American forces on the Formosa Patrol and training operations. From that time, the tanker's year settled into a routine of six months deployment with the 7th Fleet and six months operating out of Long Beach. In her Far East operations, "Guadalupe" has visited every major Pacific port – Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo, Ceylon, Formosa – while playing her unsung but vital role