The American dream is one that does not come true for every man or woman who seeks it. According to Ellies, the American dream represents “each person has the right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambition.” But, would not that same dream be the dream for Germans, French, Spanish, Brazilians and every single country in the world? The truth is that according to the level of access a person has in order to pursue happiness and to strive for a better life has been indisputably the gap among developed and undeveloped countries for decades. However, hard work does not seem to be the key factor to achieve happiness and/or a better life. Then, what does? During the beginning of the 1980’s decade, Mexico among other Latin-American countries started to adopt Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in response to the neo-liberal ideology that was starting to spread around the world as the avenue for global well-being. The World Health Organization states that Structural Adjustment Programs: “were economic policies for developing countries that have been promoted by the WB and IMF since the early 1980s by the provision of loans conditional on the adoption of such policies.” The economic policies promoted by the IMF and WB were meant to encourage the structural adjustment of an economy by, for example, removing excess government controls and promoting market competition as part of the neo-liberal agenda. As a result, the agricultural economic sector in Mexico and Latin-America was the most affected after the implementation of the SAP’s economic policies. This lead to a massive migration of workers from the countryside from different Latin-American countries, which could not compete with the prices set by the global market, to the United States of America in search of the so called “American Dream”. In addition, according to Rodriguez: “as of today 11 million undocumented people are living in the United States of America.” Nonetheless, at the same time the amount of crossing to the U.S increased, also the requirements to cross the border nowadays are much stricter than in the 1980’s. Consequently, not everyone that starts the journey to the U.S accomplish to cross the border for several reasons such getting caught by the U.S border patrol on their attempt to cross illegally and sent back to Mexico deported or because on their way to the U.S they were intercepted by Mexican drug cartels and forced to work for them. This last scenario where people, but specially people from Central and South America as they come to Mexico illegally, are threatened and forced to work for the Mexican cartels. According to journalist Alvaro Cepeda, in Mexico: “at least half million Mexicans are engaged in drug trafficking. This activity produces more than 40 billion dollars annually.” Such activity has become the principal source of recruitment for Mexican Cartels but also of employment for Latin-Americans migrants where the illegal world of drug trafficking offers them better opportunities and better life for their families. Mexico along with many Latin-American countries were experiencing stable economic growth between the decades of 1930’s and 1970’s, however, key factor to this healthy economies was the governmental intervention in the domestic economy. Latin-American governments had control if their economy, tariffs were