In an attempt to combat the increasing violence resulting from drug trafficking, former Mexican President Vicente Fox has come out in favor of legalizing drugs in both Mexico and the United States. Fox described legalization as a “strategy to strike and break the economic structure that allows the mafias to generate huge profits in their business.” Fox went on to say, “What is happening is that this huge market of the United States in drug consumption, the largest in the world, is generating the weapons that are sold to Mexican cartels, and is generating the money that is laundered in the United States and brought to Mexico.” It is estimated that 28,000 people have been killed in the drug war in Mexico since 2006.