Gulf Cartel

billion, Escobar was also the richest criminal. On December 1st, 1949, the king of cocaine was born in Rio Negro Colombia. He started his life of crime in his early teenage years and after years of progressing, he ended up joining the notorious Medellin cartel in Colombia. By the early 1970's, he started smuggling huge amounts of cocaine to Mexico, Bahamas, the United States, and many other countries. To begin with, Pablo Escobar was the biggest drug lord in Colombia, if not the world. Escobar…

Pablo Escobar, born in December of 1949, was the leader Columbian Medellin Cartel, controlling vast empire of drugs and murders internationally. Escobar was accepted into provincial university, but soon dropped out due to finical inability, eventually turning to crimes such as car theft and later marijuana growth. After partnering with Joe Ochoa, their profits from the distribution of marijuana quickly rose, and the duo expanded into the new cocaine business. Escobar soon established himself as…

The War on Drugs is One Big Lie In Anabel Hernandez’s, Narcoland, she gives readers a firsthand look at her five years of taxing research which has led to the discovery of numerous misconceptions about the drug war and the American drug trade. This essay exposes and debunks three of many misconceptions. First, it exposed and debunked the well-known escape of Chapo Guzman from prison and government officials letting Chapo walk free. Second, The murder of journalist Manuel Buendia, by the Federal…

quickly. The “narcocorridos” talk about a variety of topics. These are about drug lords, arrests, operations within the mafia, shootouts and betrayals. Corridos have had a negative impact as well in Mexico. The “narcocorridos” talk about different cartels within Mexico. This makes it difficult because it builds controversy with artists and…

Some may call him the Colombian Robin Hood. Others call him El zar de cocaina (The tzar of cocaine). Either way, Pablo Escobar was a wealthy drug lord who affected Colombia in both positive and negative ways. It is undeniable that Pablo for better or worse changed Colombia. It is up to the people to decide whether he is the Colombian Robin Hood or the world's greatest outlaw. Pablo knew what it was like to be poor, unable to buy something as necessary as shoes. This allowed him to be able…

Escobar and his Medellin Cartel. George made millions off these operations being only the middle man. It was not uncommon that he made 15 million dollar a run. George, the former high school football star from Weymouth, Massachusetts, became the Medellin Cartel's U.S. contact. Almost 80% of the cocaine that was smuggled into the U.S. came from George. Escobar sat at the head of the one of the most expansive criminal empires the world has ever seen. At its peak in the 1980s, his cartel…

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.…

But like I said before, the things people do for quick cash. They don’t care about the dangers of what they are putting into their body, they just want money. What I still cannot believe is how drug dealers are always finding new ways to smuggle. Cartels have been using drones for surveillance on the customers and their “delivery men”. Their ultimate goal is to flood the United States with as much drugs a possible and to make enough money to have a wealthy life. The next goal…

Major companies in many different sectors all support, and spend money lobbying for, the continued criminalization of drugs. The continued criminalization of drugs is critical to the drug war, and includes strict punishments and sentences for those convicted of crimes involving drugs. It has been shown that groups such as private prisons, and prison guard unions lobby for strict punishments to increase incarceration, and reap the profits. These company’s contributions promote the war on drugs,…

One of the main contributions to the incarceration rate per capital is the current laws on illegal substance in America. During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, “Federal mandatory minimums were incorporated in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act” (Seigel 162). regarding sentences both for dealers and users. These restrictions and rules are far from perfect; Unreasonable laws only serve as a catalyst to problems worsening. The idea of decriminalizing drugs to most is questionable. Far often people are…