El estado colombiano y mexicano, se han convertido en dos centros de analisis de un mismo fenomeno: El narcotrafico; estudiar las causas, los contextos que permiten su expansion, las politicas utilizadas por los Estados para combatirlas de manera legal y de manera ilegal, son temas de alta recurrencia academica. El proposito del presente texto sera analizar las estrategias politicas que se han utilizado en Mexico y Colombia para frenar la proliferacion de actividades ilicitas propias del narcotrafico; fenomeno que ambos paises comparten con rasgos distintivos y que han afrontado haciendo uso de todo el andamiaje juridico del que disponen. The Colombian and Mexican state have become two centers of analysis of the same phenomenon: drug trafficking; studying the causes, the contexts that allow their expansion, the policies used by the States to fight them legally and illegally, are subjects of high academic recurrence. The purpose of this text will be to analyze the political strategies that have been used in Mexico and Colombia to stop the proliferation of illicit activities specific to drug trafficking; phenomenon that both countries share with distinctive features and that they have faced making use of all the legal scaffolding they have.