Cartel

American prisons have had many cases of criminal activities and cartels that operate within the system by the inmates themselves. There are many instances of criminal activities that include gun violence happening in the United States prisons (Celinda 21). Research has shown that many inmates in American prisons tend…

The cartoon shows that in Mexico, there can be the constant threat of being killed by a drug cartel, meaning that nowhere is safe. Reyna Grande expands on this one idea and introduces several hardships she, and many other Mexicans, have had to experience, including disease, poverty, and poor sanitation. On the other hand, though, America does offer…

“Money makes the world go round” -Cabaret In my eyes money is the second most powerful thing on earth. People will give their lives trying to make large sums of money. Money is defined differently throughout different cultures and different countries. Some may define money as anything that has value and can be traded through the fingers of people, whether that be the actual green paper itself and coins, materials such as gold or diamonds, sexual intercourse, or any other way you can get out of…

spend one billion dollars a year on incarcerated prisoners who are there on marijuana related charges. Legalization would also crash down on cartel related gangs. One of the biggest money making industries for the Mexican cartels is the selling of marijuana. The legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington has already put a huge blow in the cartels. Better grown, higher quality, legal weed is taking over north America by storm. Legalization would also allow border patrol agents to focus…

Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). During the 1980s, they began to focus on drug trafficking. Despite all their efforts to distinguish themselves from the Crips, they mirrored their rivals during this period of time, forming alliances with Mexican Cartels and spreading throughout the United States. Before long, the Bloods had a significant presence in the east, due mostly to a large population in New York City, where they actually outnumbered Crips. Today, their numbers are very similar to…

The U.S.-Mexican border is the most dangerous area in the U.S. and in order to prevent the leak of drugs and crime we need funding for any form of border control. To prove that the border between Mexico and the U.S. is dangerous and in need of better support, I did some research. Since year 2010, there have been three thousand six hundred twenty-two shootings, stabbings, and deaths by torture. As a journalist in Ciudad Juarez, Julian Cardona has often heard and witnessed beheadings. Julian also…

With a thriving black market in place, billions and billions of dollars are put in the hands of outlaws each year. Organized crime and drug cartels have exploded in the past 45 years due to this enormous illegal drug market. This ridiculous amount of money allows gangs to fund other, more dangerous, illegal activities such as terrorism or human trafficking. These criminals only continue to gain…

Many young people are still affected by the drug and so are most families. Besides the trade in the drug continue to thrive in the black market. The monies realized from such trades are used wrongly to finance and sustain various crime groups and cartels across America and the world at large. Despite the fact that a lot of money is being spent on efforts to curb the spread of use of marijuana, its usage persists. Similarly its being illegal across the world has also done very little to curb its…

the government does not feel the number of security officers should be high. This has enabled thousands of criminals to be a part of drug smuggling events. Profits made from these account for over half of the economy. The government is aware of the cartel, but has not taken any great actions to stop it. However, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, has recently ordered multiple troops for the first time to deploy an ancient area that was believed to be a drug exchange site…

The problem is that marijuana is illegal and isn’t available to the people that need it. Since these people can’t get it they suffer on a daily basis. Making weed legal could do a lot for our country. It would help with many diseases, keep innocent kids out of jail, and it would allow our country to get out of debt. Marijuana would do many things for a lot of people. For a few years now Americans’ have disputed on the legalization of cannabis, also known as marijuana. Recreational cannabis is…