Cartel

against the drug cartels in Mexico. As a result multiple operations have taken place on behalf of the Mexican government including the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs, launched by former President Felipe Calderon in 2006, was a military initiative against the cartels, according to Reuters. Calderon acted with the nation’s best interest in two ways, in attempting to make his state safe and in keeping peace with the U.S. by demonstrating that action was taking place against the cartels. Since…

In the article “Why Mexico’s Drug War is Unwinnable,” Laura Carlsen asserts that irrespective of the method of evaluation; be it better public safety, stifled supply of illegal drug to the US market or the crippling of drug cartels, the drug war is falling. According to Carlsen, within four years of the militarization of the streets of Mexico by President Felipe Calderon to curb the drug trade, over 37,000 drug-related homicides were recorded in addition to thousands of human rights abuse…

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…

any kind of boundaries. In the Cocaine Cowboys, it started off with two Latina men being shot dead in a liquor store due to cartel activities and everyone knew it was the cocaine boys. Drugs and crime goes hand in hand as explained by John Roberts in the documentary. John Roberts was a coke trafficker and distributed over two billion dollars’ worth of coke for the Medellin Cartel. Roberts explains that he went to Miami when he was 25 years old with only 652 dollars in his pocket. He started…

carried out by his lieutenants, such as Edgar Valdez Villarreal, or "La Barbie," named for his blond hair and blue eyes.Saviano cites that the cartels were spending $5 million a month in 2011 to bribe officials, police, and military personnel to keep quiet and not make any significant arrests while a drug war raged and blood spilled from both civilian and cartel sources.El Chapo is suspected of having his rivals arrested at times, which shows the strength of his influence and his restraint in…

that is built primarily of the drug cartels. There is almost a set code of conduct, or moral code that is associated with the lifestyle of Narcos. Some Mexican laws have forbidden the musical genre of Narcocorridos on the radio. Narcocorridos are songs that detail and glamorize the lifestyle of different Narcos. Furthermore, drug use (specifically marijuana and heroin) has increased. Ironically, the United States gets the majority of their drugs from Mexican cartels (Felbab-Brown), despite there…

The terms “War on drugs” was coined by U.S President Richard Nixon on June 18, 1971 to refer to the campaign for the prohibition of drugs, military intervention and military aid all aimed at not only defining but also reducing the trade of illegal drugs. The initiative has for decades included setting drug policies intended to discourage the production, he distribution as well as the consumption of drugs of what the United Nations and participating government’s term as psychoactive drugs. The…

CIA Drug Controversy 1986 The United States said to been dealing with illegal drugs and selling them as Crack-cocaine and Heroin. The CIA has tried everything to avoid questions, but they’ve gotten answers from Representatives and CIA officers. May 1, 2003 The Heroin Of politics by Alfred W. McCoy gave all evidence that the CIA’s drug trafficking did become a fact. A quote from the book “Over the past thirty years, the U.S. and UN prohibition has simply served to push production and processing…

full immunity, and the exclusive rights to purvey legal marijuana to U.S. legal outlets, in return for dismantling the competing cartels with the Mexican government, and ceasing illegal activities. To ensure financial viability, an additional sum may need to be given to El Chapo in exchange for the cartel border enforcement efforts. Pros: One of the largest Mexican cartels would legalize its trade, and cease smuggling operations El Chapo might go for it as he could stop running, and as states…

had attempted to move his to a more conditional prison facility. With his escape came a 16-month man hunt for the drug lord. As Pablo was in prison and on the run for those short 16 month the Medellin Cartel had started to crumble when other leaders of the cartel were also murdered. That cause the cartel to quickly deteriorate to no longer have any hold anywhere with any drugs. By the time of his death on December 2, 1993 he was known as a very bad man but also a very good man at the same time.…