Drug cartel

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 8 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The U.S. has done quite a lot to stop drug cartels in Latin America. Since the 1970s, the U.S. spent one trillion dollars or more, trying their best to dismantle drug cartels. U.S. troops, pilots, and ships have been constantly deployed to track down drug smugglers. The U.S. has not only trained their units, but militaries and law enforcement agents in Latin American countries as well. The Fourth Fleet is in the Caribbean, the Marines in Guatemala, and the National Guard in Honduras. The U.S.…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Shoot Outs Day At Work

    • 1730 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Shoot outs day and night are common for cops, miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, buzzing courtrooms are part of a lawyer’s lifestyle and office romances are inevitable for receptionists, well, at least on TV. Many aspects of TV don’t depict real- life scenarios that happen in these job fields and many others, 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…

    • 1730 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    funding can come from temporary tax increases or cutting of other funding. This would be a fantastic investment of taxpayer money as well, since it would create more jobs and infrastructure in the southern states as well as reduce the quantity of drugs beings smuggled into America. Eight billion dollars isn’t a ridiculous number for a government project, recently the government created a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security which cost 4.5 billion dollars and it was…

    • 995 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The director Steven Soderbergh goal was to show all sides of the drug trafficking work, from the poor, to the rich, to the king pin drug dealers. He aimed to show what the real root cause of drug trafficking is and what is the evils of drugs can be. This film portrayed all aspects equally and his point was strong and extremely powerful; some of scenes seemed dreadfully stereotypical and not fair to Mexican people, Black people, and even white females. The cinematography use of color in this…

    • 2515 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Drug-Related Crime

    • 964 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The true source of drug-related crime, according to this article, is the corruption amongst the criminal justice system, and the reason the war on drugs is being lost is the fact that more energy is being focused on combatting the drug cartels than strengthening the authorities who are battling. Attempting to wholly eliminate cartels is a fruitless task; as one organization would be eradicated, another would surface in place of it. Instead, intensifying the punishments granted to crimes, through…

    • 964 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Narcos

    • 612 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Narcos is a TV series that tells the story of the notorious drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar. He became a billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine. The main actors of Narcos are, Pablo Escobar, Gustavo Gaviria, Tata Escobar, Hermilda Gaviria, Limon, Steve Murphy, Javier Pena and Horacio Carrillo. The TV series was produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro. Narcos was originally aired on August 28, 2015 and had ratings a six out of six. The introduction of the…

    • 612 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    about the war on drugs the main things that come to your mind are that they are illegal and can cause serious health problems. Colombia is the main contributor to the making and transportation of illegal drugs from Latin America to the Canadian border and beyond. Ever since President Reagan declared a war on drugs in 1971 the use and import of these drugs have skyrocketed. With the demand for drugs increasing and the easy access from south America into central America to transport drugs, it was…

    • 1804 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mexico that cartels are blooming and taking over. Each region has one that is more in power than the rest. The one that makes it to the top of the top is the mostly known to the public. For example, “the Juarez Cartel… has historically controlled the middle area of the Mexican- United States border” and the “Sinaloa Cartel…is based in the Sinaloa state near the city of Culiacan.” Furthermore, the state of Tamaulipas is invaded by the Gulf cartel. Los Zetas have helped the Gulf cartel keep its…

    • 1823 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Drug Trafficking: An Analysis of Drug Trafficking Between the U.S. and Mexico The illegal drug trade is also called the black market where people manufacture, distribute, and the sale of drugs like cocaine, marijuana, and heroine. The trade of illegal drugs happens globally whether it is traveling by a ship, car, or plane. Everyday drug trafficking affects a person's life and the nation's economy by the flow of money to other countries and the increase of violence. Drug trafficking in Mexico is…

    • 1368 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Mexican Drug War

    • 1257 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Mexican Drug War has been an international example of continued policy failure. The complex conflict includes various actors, all of which play a different but important role. There are seven main drug cartels: Beltran-Leyva, Gulf, Juarez, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and Tijuana/Arellano Felix. Each cartel maintains its own territory, and some areas are disputed among cartels. For example, Los Zetas controls the Central North and some of the Southeast coast, and the Gulf Cartel…

    • 1257 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Page 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 50