The war started (unoffically) in 1999, when a small number of cartel clashed with police. With rising drug sales and a lack of drug farms, the Cartels began to seek new drug plants in order to make more farms. As the cartels grow, they become more powerful in Mexico. By 2004 the cartels have created an Oligarchy that controls most of Mexico. The Cartel Oligarchy has complete control of the Country and the Government and began to pursue policies that weakened the Armed Forces and Police. The cartels then passed a law that abolished the Police.