Cali Cartel

“U.S. Anti-trust regulations are a collection of state and federal laws that regulate conduct & organization of corporations to promote fair competition for benefit of consumers.” The US has 3 major laws concerning anti-trust regulations: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, The Clayton Act, and The Federal Trade Commission Act. The US is “…world’s top cops on the antitrust beat.” The US has been a model for other countries to also implement anti-trust laws and they have such laws in place to create a…

The late 19th century is famous for large trusts dominating market power, such as John D Rockefeller’s oil and JPMorgan’s railroads. Even before Teddy Roosevelt could enforce his trust-busting leadership, the courts were determined to limit the power of huge corporations. These events took place just as professional baseball was at its inception. The Sherman Antitrust Act theoretically should have limited MLB as a monopoly. However, through court decisions, MLB was given immunity from antitrust…

Main Concept The Progressive Era saw several acts of legislation that would change the way American society operated. Sherman-Anti Trust Act In 1890 big business controlled much of the American economy. The Sherman Act allowed the United States government for the first time to investigate a business. The government would look for "artificial raising of prices," or, a monopoly. Any company who was hurting the economy by driving up prices would be broken apart. The government would attempt…

Pablo Escobar, born in December of 1949, was the leader Columbian Medellin Cartel, controlling vast empire of drugs and murders internationally. Escobar was accepted into provincial university, but soon dropped out due to finical inability, eventually turning to crimes such as car theft and later marijuana growth. After partnering with Joe Ochoa, their profits from the distribution of marijuana quickly rose, and the duo expanded into the new cocaine business. Escobar soon established himself as…

contraband. His relationship with cocaine first began with him personally smuggling the substance from Colombia to Panama; within seven years he was in control of the world’s largest, wealthiest, and most violent cartel. Its closest rival, the quieter and more sophisticated Cali cartel, run by the Orejuela brothers, paled in comparison—but together, they accounted for eighty percent of the world’s cocaine by the mid 1990s. Despite the success of the booming drug industry itself, the economy of…

otherwise introduced into the body. A cartel is an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition. A drug cartel is any criminal organization developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. There are many different drug cartels in many different places. They’re…

City of God is a thrilling action film set in the oppressive margins of a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Directed by Fernando Meirelles, the film portrays life in the City of God, a favela that began in the 1960s as a new housing project. Its main characters were children and petty thieves who lived a life surrounded by violence and drug turfs. Narrated by Rocket, a boy who dreams of becoming a photographer, the story focuses on the escalating battle between rival gangs led by the murderous…

maybe that life is about “being at the right place at the right time”? Or have you ever heard about the cartels and their crimes down in Mexico? Murders, kidnapping, drug trafficking, and lots of partying goes on every day by every cartel and by every drug lord south of the border. Unfortunately, these two topics have much in common in Mexico. Civilians that do not have anything to do with the cartels get caught up in these kind of events like partying with them, then, unexpectedly local police,…

country and the whole Colombian ethnic group each have a slew of stereotypes to conquer when dealing with other culture groups. One of the more popular and beautiful cities, Medellin, is often portrayed as a dangerous place to visit—full of drug cartels, kidnappings, and homicides. The popularity of cocaine and the illegal drug trade have both left the uninformed public with the opinion that the citizens of Colombia are all drug fanatics and/or murderers. While strong, united family values exist…

Fireworks or gunfire? It may be difficult for some non-gun-wheedling citizens to tell the difference, but every cop knows ringing of gunfire. Miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, well, at least on TV. Several aspects of TV don’t depict real-life scenarios that happen in these job fields, instead they show the exciting, romanticized, alluring and often skewed, concepts of the job. Cops don’t experience shoot outs every day, half their day or sometimes more is spent on…