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...... However, Soderbergh does indicate an appreciation for the corruption endemic at the level of government in Mexico. The governments of Mexico and other big suppliers to the United States are frequently as complicit as they are portrayed in Traffic. As Cafferty points out, The Mexican drug cartels now have operations in 230 American cities. Government officials sometimes play both sides of the war. In Traffic, Mexican General Salazar profits directly off of the cartels and hence, off the War on Drugs. The United States may not be as overtly corrupt in its approach to the War on Drugs but it is highly likely that the campaign is not entirely an innocent one. Issues of corruption aside, the War on Drugs is categorically insane, if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time, (Cafferty). Alcohol prohibition failed miserably, and so too is the War on Drugs
Although the audience does not sympathize with Salazar or the Obregn cartel, the Mexican drug runners are not the primary antagonists of the movie. For much of the movie, Robert Wakefield is the main antagonist. Wakefield represents the American governments complicity in perpetuating

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