Cartel

Last year nearly 701,000 people were arrested for marijuana related offenses. That equates to roughly one arrest every 45 seconds (Marijuana Legalization 2015…). Too many Americans are behind bars for trivial offences, in this case, possession of marijuana. Marijuana should be decriminalized in Minnesota because it would free up police resources to deal with more serious crimes, fix the problem that more harm is caused by the criminal prohibition of marijuana than by the use of marijuana itself,…

The end of slavery in 1862 was supposed to signify the end of the forced free labor of African American people and their right to live freely as human beings. Unfortunately for African American people, some white Americans could not fathom the idea of black people having equally opportunities. Thus begins the cycle of never ending oppression of black people. Black codes, segregation, the influx of crack in to black communities, and the era of mass incarceration are all tell tale signs of…

This semester we have been talking about many issues in developing countries and ways to fix them. Poverty, Climate change, Deforestation, Child Mortality are just a few of these issues. We learned about Mexico’s huge deforestation problem and that is having an enormous effect on the people living in the area. As well as, how Microcredit is being used in developing countries in the Latin American, sub-Saharan Africa and Asian regions to give people a better chance to improve themselves…

times growing up, I would be asked where I was from. When I would answer I was part Colombian I would get slick comments or gestures insinuating that I was into drugs or my family were drug dealers. This was due to Pablo Escobar and all the drug cartels importing cocaine and marijuana since the 1970’s. Colombia is only associated with drug and crime. Colombia is the connection between Central America and South America. Colombia has access to four businesses routes the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic…

interests over what other people want, and fear that has been enlisted in them, making them believe that something should be done. Take for example the drug cartels in Mexico, people believe that there should be justice brought a upon it all, due to the fear they have of being kidnapped or murdered. Nevertheless, it would be different if the drug cartels were fighting to benefit the people; therefore, the people would not be fearful of them. However, they are fighting on their human weakness, on…

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a story consisting of two main themes. They are violence and greed. The personality of one of the main characters provides an additional grotesque element as well. Each of these three topics are direct results of each other, the physical violence was a result of the greediness of Moss and the personality of Chigurh determined the amount of physical violence that happened in the story. The first theme in the story is greed. Llewellyn Moss came by…

Immigrants have a larger passion for the American Dream, because of their tragic social and economic status that lead them to leave their old life to start a new. Mexico is in deep poverty and their workforce is not trained and treated unfairly. For example, around 25 million Mexican workers make less than fourteen dollars a day, and they believe that if they escape to the US they can start a new life. Furthermore, forty-five percent of the population exists under the poverty line, and ten…

United States has the world largest prison populations Most of the inmates are not rapist murders or robbers but are drug addicts and sellers. Every year thousands of inmates are sentence to long prison terms for a variety of drug crimes. Most of the inmates are getting mandatory sentences because of laws that been put in place to curtail the use of drugs but they are not working and more and more people are going to prison for long term. The sale of illegal drugs in the US is extremely…

opportunity to infiltrate and corrupt the government and their military. If the FARC and Columbian government come to a certain peace agreement, what will this due to Columbian and US relations? The FARC has teamed up with some of the most dangerous drug cartels and are starting to expand their joint operations around the world.…

The border between The United States and Mexico has long been known as one of the most dangerous parts of the country. Dangerous drug cartels pushing people and drugs over the border, constantly are adapting and finding new ways to do so. This would pose a bigger threat if not for the United States border patrol agents who are on guard all hours of the day trying to prevent contraband from entering the country. Terry Kirkpatrick served in Nogales Arizona, and later Mexico. After receiving many…