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.
Guadalupe Guerrero Guadalupe Guerrero Guadalupe Guerrero is the Superintendent of Portland Public Schools in Oregon. In 1992, Guerrero earned a BA degree in History at UCLA. He later earned two master's degrees from Harvard University, one in School Leadership and Principal Certification and one in Educational Policy and Management. Guerrero's first position was as a bilingual elementary school teacher in San Francisco. He was principal of Dever Elementary in Dorchester, Boston from 2002 until 2008, a school the Boston Post described as a "school in crisis" in 2002. While principal, he introduced a new math curriculum, and increased outreach to parents. However,