Cartel

In Colombia, left-wing guerrilla groups, such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), have fought the government for years. These groups claim to be fighting for the rights of the poor and to provide social justice through communism. However, guerilla groups have also been involved in Colombia’s drug trade, offering protection to coca growers and dealers in return for a percentage of the profits. The United States has taken interest in the conflict, creating Plan Colombia in 2000,…

In this term paper, we will be comparing two famous drug lords, Pablo Escobar and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. We will be discussing the backgrounds of these two drug lords and over the certain crimes that they have committed against the law. It’ll include how they start and got involved into the community of crime and how they end. They both increased the distribution of the drug they they distributed after being produced. Escobar started off in a quiet town in north Illinois, right near Lake…

Paraphrase: The opioid epidemic has three very distinct waves of opioid-related deaths. The opioid epidemic can be described in terms of three distinct waves of opioid-related deaths. The first wave of deaths linked to opiates was related to prescription opioids and the overprescription of these opiates. The second wave of opioid-related deaths was caused by the uprising of the heroin market in the United States, attracting those previously addicted to prescription opioids to try heroin. A rise…

Border enforcement and control at the major points of entry and exit on the southern border between the United States and Mexico, had long been largely left alone throughout the decades, aside from a few flare ups, that is until the 1990s. However, it was the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, which would become the fuel waiting to be ignited in the coming decade. While, IRCA was intended to solve illegal immigration issues, along with other associated…

From Colombian cocaine cartels to Chinese triads, virtually all major organized criminal gangs are involves in drug trafficking in one form or another. (Fichtelberg, 2008, p. 207) Development of transportation and communication and flow of people across the borders helps drugs…

allure of high illicit profits. Organized crime still exists in the United States. What the United States could do that would most help Mexico would be to legalize marijuana, which provides 60 percent of the cartel's revenue. That might shrink the cartels to the point that the Mexican government could take them. But there are obviously huge domestic considerations about doing that as well, and it is a policy initiative that remains beyond the foreseeable…

going and the spirit of Locarno was alive. Another example of the illusion of peace being heightened is found with the establishment of the steel cartel. This cartel composed of three central powers, its neighbors, and major continental steel companies set a limit to steel production in order to raise prices and make a bigger profit. The steel cartel considered the formation of a European economic union but barriers between 30 states and customs prevented this from…

not need to resort to violence and murder to resolve a dispute they could be settled in court if drugs were legal (528). This does not mean that drug related crimes would disappear, only that it would be reduced because it gives drug dealers and cartels another option to resolve disputes and with prohibition they only have one which is murder. Additionally, when drugs are legalized it might lower the cost of…

Intro and Thesis: In the Reading of “A Living Call” by Rafael, Luévano he depicted in Mexico the hundreds of women who have gone missing or have been murdered by men. The main cause of this is globalization, which created that NAFTA put our factories in Mexico for cheap labor. This caused women to go to these areas for jobs, but live in slums outside of the factories. Another cause is the lack of law enforcement, because most are dealing with the drug trafficking which causes them to oversee…

Performances and Cultural Heterogeneity In the Illegal Drug Economy” by Heidi Grundetjern, “Black from Crack” by Spirit Quest, and lastly “The Daughters of La Nacha: Profiles of Women Traffickers” by Elaine Carey and Jose Carlos Cisnero Guzman. Drug Cartels have been known as male dominated field but in this case, there have been many females that have been as dominant as or even more powerful than some males. Most of these cases come from Latin America and…