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    Joaquin Guzman and Pablo Escobar are the most popular drug lords in the entire world. Joaquin Guzman is a Mexican drug lord that is the leader of a group known as the Sinaloa Cartel. Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord that was the leader of the Medellin Cartel. These two drug lords have earned billions of dollars from selling drugs all across the world. Joaquin Guzman and Pablo Escobar share similarities and differences in their childhood, prime time, business strategies, and criminal…

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    Cartel Medellin Carttel

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    society because they are street smart and manipulative when it comes to the sale of cocaine and other drugs. Nevertheless, after all, consideration, the Cartel-Medellin Cartel appears to be the most dangerous efficiently this gang was a ruthless, highly organized and much feared Columbian drug cartel that originated in the city of Medellin, Columbia. Never the less, the cartel operated through the 1970’s and 1980’s in Bolivia, Columbia, Central America, and the United States. The cartel found…

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    El Chapo Research Paper

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    Juaquin Guzman Loera, most commonly known as “El Chapo” is one of the world’s most famous drug lords. Many people see him as a man of opportunities because he offers many jobs with his business, but others see him as a man who with his business kills many people. El Chapo is the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel and is currently one of the most wanted criminals in the United States, due to the fact that his drugs have killed many American people. He is a person that many people talk about and know…

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    Narcos Research Paper

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    After moving to Columbia, Cockroach needed to find a good business partner and the only option was Pablo Escobar. He was introduced as the creator of a successful business through smuggling drugs and alcohol as well as “owning half of the police in Medellin, Columbia” (Steven Murphy). Subsequently Pablo Escobar, was stopped by a roadblock in Columbia. To get away from the police, Pablo threatened them by telling them about how much he knew about their families and how they should let him go, or…

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    Griselda Blanco Essay

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    According to "La Viuda Negra" television series that is based on true events from her life shows that both Griselda Blanco and her mother fled their town and moved to Medellin, Colombia for a better life and to escape from her abusive father. Medellin is the town where Blanco's fame all begun. As they both arrived to this town with little money, they both faced many hardships. They found themselves not having any food to eat and not finding a decent place…

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    Due to its status as the focal point of the cocaine trade, Medellin, Colombia, was dubbed the “most dangerous city on Earth” by TIME magazine at the height of the cartel’s power. It bore the highest homicide rate and was plagued by civil conflict, which set the stage for illicit drug trafficking to occur. Presently, it ranks as the 49th most dangerous city, and it is speculated by both the DEA and Colombian National police that more than 300 drug smuggling organizations are active within…

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    People look at heroism in many ways. Some individuals refer to heroes as those who help society during and after hardships. On the other hand, individuals don't consider a hero as a man who may have done bad and great at the same time. Pablo Escobar was a man that was viewed as an awful individual yet in the other nation was a hero to numerous. Pablo Escobar was from a poor background, because of these conditions he never finished his education rather he wandered in business of drugs. He was…

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    Pele Research Paper

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    Pele On October 23, 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil, soccer legend Pelé was born as Edson Arantes Do Nascimento. His parents were João Ramos do Nascimento who was Pelé's father and was also a professional soccer player and Celeste Arantes who was his mother. Maria Lúcia Nascimento and Zeca Nascimento are Pelé's sisters. Pele and his family lived in the city of Bauru. Pele grew up in poverty so it wasn’t such a pleasant childhood. Also Pele’s friends were the ones that first called him Pele. Pele…

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    Jaime Escalante was born December 31, 1930 in La Paz, Bolivia, to Zenobio and Sara Escalante. He was the second child born in his family of eight. When Escalante was fourteen his mother sent him to San Calixto High School. Later on in his teenage year’s Escalante’s father died so his family wasn’t able to afford for him to go to San Calixto anymore. At that time, Escalante hoped that he would be able to go to engineering school but because his family couldn’t afford to go to school, he couldn’t…

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    Research Paper On Narcos

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    has a combination of everything that makes a great show, with violent, dramatic and intimate scenes. It also tells the story of Steve Murphy, an up and coming DEA agent who was assigned to move from Miami to Columbia and take down Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. Murphy also gives a first person narrative of his accounts throughout the show in between scenes. Escobar and most of the other people from Columbia will mostly speak in Spanish, with English sub titles underneath, Murphy and his DEA…

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