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'''INSPIRATION'''

Drug trafficking is a major world problem, one of the main countries involved in this violence and trade is Mexico. A 2015 Congressional Research Service report estimates at least 80,000 people were killed in Mexico due to in organized crime related incidents since 2006. Most of the organized crime relies on drug trafficking.

There are many things involved in drug traffic, even though it is all about money and power, it is also about connections, who works for whom, how many people are involved, what's the amount of land they "own", etc.. In this case power to drug dealers is food for physarum polycephalum.

Narco Cultivos is a metaphor and a way of analyzing how primitive this business can be, compared to physarum polycephalum. I call it primitive for they "think" but they also act as an instinct. Little by little important cities are attacked in a 3D printed version of Mexico where physarum polycephalum lies. The way this organism moves in reaction to more or less food, gives us an insight of what would happened with power, control, drugs movement or even people if drug cartels were to be attacked.

Drug dealing is one of the biggest and most important problems in Mexico. It is all about power and it would be really hard to get rid of the problem as a whole. It is all about power.

~~Many cartels and drug dealing groups have been identified along the whole country.~~

~~[http://www.dailystatistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mexico-drug-cartel-infographics.jpg Drug Cartels in Mexico.]~~

'''IDEA'''

~~My idea is to create a Map~~ of Mexico in ~~which I would identify the~~ most important cartels ~~found~~ in ~~the country~~. ~~I would put oats in the areas where the cartels are and then let~~ physarum ~~find the food and create~~ the connections ~~among them~~.

A 3D printed version of Mexico will be displace in a petri dish. The most important drug cartels or cities involved in drug trade will be identify and an oat will be placed in each one of those cities. A series of time lapses will be recorded to monitor physarum's movement to get the connections between these cities.

Little by little ~~I would remove~~ food from the most powerful cartel ~~and distribute~~ more oats in ~~the~~ other areas with the hypothesis that this would be a way to attack the drug dealing business in Mexico. The way physarum ~~moved~~ or "~~run~~ away" once ~~their~~ food in one area would give us an insight of where the people from the cartels would run to.

Little by little food will be removed from the most powerful cartel while more oats will be distributed in other areas with the hypothesis that this would be a way to attack the drug dealing business in Mexico. The way physarum moves or "runs away" once they run out of food in one area would give us an insight of where the people or the problem (violence and trade) from the cartels would run to.

There are many ~~other~~ things involved in the drug dealing business, ~~even though it is all about money and power, it~~ is ~~also about connections, who works for whom, how many people are involved, what's the amount of land they "own", etc... To me it would be more like an hypothesis~~ and a way of analyzing of how primitive this business can be, compared to physarum, I call it primitive for they "think" but they also act as an instinct.

There are many things involved in the drug dealing business, . Narco cultivos is a metaphor and a way of analyzing of how primitive this business can be, compared to physarum, I call it primitive for they "think" but they also act as an instinct.

'''EXPERIMENTS'''

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 '''INSPIRATION'''
+Drug trafficking is a major world problem, one of the main countries involved in this violence and trade is Mexico. A 2015 Congressional Research Service report estimates at least 80,000 people were killed in Mexico due to in organized crime related incidents since 2006. Most of the organized crime relies on drug trafficking.
+There are many things involved in drug traffic, even though it is all about money and power,  it is also about connections, who works for whom, how many people are involved, what's the amount of land they "own", etc.. In this case power to drug dealers is food for physarum polycephalum.
+Narco Cultivos is a metaphor and a way of analyzing how primitive this business can be, compared to physarum polycephalum. I call it primitive for they "think" but they also act as an instinct. Little by little important cities are attacked in a 3D printed version of Mexico where physarum polycephalum lies. The way this organism moves in reaction to more or less food, gives us an insight of what would happened with power, control, drugs movement or even people if drug cartels were to be attacked.
 Drug dealing is one of the biggest and most important problems in Mexico. It is all about power and it would be really hard to get rid of the problem as a whole. It is all about power.
-Many cartels and drug dealing groups have been identified along the whole country.
-[http://www.dailystatistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mexico-drug-cartel-infographics.jpg Drug Cartels in Mexico.]
 '''IDEA'''
-My idea is to create a Map of Mexico in which I would identify the most important cartels found in the country. I would put oats in the areas where the cartels are and then let physarum find the food and create the connections among them.
+A 3D printed version of Mexico will be displace in a petri dish. The most important drug cartels or cities involved in drug trade will be identify and an oat will be placed in each one of those cities. A series of time lapses will be recorded to monitor physarum's movement to get the connections between these cities.
-Little by little I would remove food from the most powerful cartel and distribute more oats in the other areas with the hypothesis that this would be a way to attack the drug dealing business in Mexico. The way physarum moved  or "run away" once their food in one area would give us an insight of where the people from the cartels would run to.
+Little by little food will be removed from the most powerful cartel while more oats will be distributed in other areas with the hypothesis that this would be a way to attack the drug dealing business in Mexico. The way physarum moves  or "runs away" once they run out of food in one area would give us an insight of where the people or the problem (violence and trade) from the cartels would run to.
-There are many other things involved in the drug dealing business, even though it is all about money and power, it is also about connections, who works for whom, how many people are involved, what's the amount of land they "own", etc... To me it would be more like an hypothesis and a way of analyzing of how primitive this business can be, compared to physarum, I call it primitive for they "think" but they also act as an instinct.
+There are many things involved in the drug dealing business, . Narco cultivos is a metaphor and a way of analyzing of how primitive this business can be, compared to physarum, I call it primitive for they "think" but they also act as an instinct.
 '''EXPERIMENTS'''