Smuggling

The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of a series of events in Latin America; first, the return of democracy after years of military rule; and then, the emergence of new threats to the internal security of countries. Peru is no exception in confronting threats: terrorism, drug trafficking, narcoterrorism, illegal mining, illegal logging, and organized crime, among others. These threats are affecting the internal order, the environment, the economy and the health of the Peruvian population…

Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen, today I am here to speak about the representation and treatment of the issue of Human Trafficking in a variety of different texts. Human Trafficking, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is the act of ‘recruitment, transportation, transfer or harbouring of people’ by abduction or deception for the means of sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or organ removal. The three texts that I will be analysing will be Taken, a film…

Drug smuggling into the United States has been a problem that has plagued our nation for generations. There are so many new innovative ways used by smugglers to transport drugs it makes it near impossible to put a stop to. Whether it’s by land, sea, or air smugglers are still finding a way to slip past our Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines make up the majority of drugs being smuggled into the United States. Many new programs, strategies,…

Is a border wall worth the things migrants go through? Immigration is one of the biggest problems we face in America today. We know why people want to immigrate to America from different parts of the world. The three major factors are political, economic and social. But the things immigrants face in order to get to America is beyond To what extent, having a border wall is worth all the things migrants go through this journey? In this case, having a border wall is not worth the challenges…

governments would ideally defeat drug cartels, the fact reminds that the U.S is fighting the cartels, the fact reminds that the U.S is fighting the cartels unilaterally. (Auerbach) While the government has been working for decades to combat Mexican drug smuggling using local, state, and federal law enforcement, it simply cannot rely on the Mexican government to do the same, in this effort the Mexican government must stand up and combat the drug cartels themselves. However evidence shows that the…

Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, or "El Chapo" as he is better known, is a short, reserved, and on the surface, unremarkable guy, but he became the most powerful drug lord in Mexico.El Chapo was essentially born into the drug trade in Sinaloa, as were countless other families. His entire family worked the fields cultivating poppies to be processed into opium. Growing up, El Chapo was surrounded by a fiction that the illicit drug trade creates to mask its roots.Like many of the children of…

46). With such a large trade in the smuggling of drugs, the yakuza also supplies the United States, as it was estimated that “the yakuza smuggling operations supply an estimated 90 percent of the crystal methamphetamine that is available in Hawaii” (Gragert and Bruce, 2010, p. 177). However, with the drug trade being such an enormous business, the yakuza have been known to work with other groups for smuggling purposes. Gragert and Bruce (2010) contend “the yakuza have formed…

A common misconception of human trafficking is that it is same or very similar to smuggling. Those who are “smuggled” into a country are doing so by their own free will, without coercion. Human trafficking victims don’t have to be shipped anywhere internationally to still be “trafficked”. Since they are being captured or coerced into slavery, it is against their free will, therefore wildly different from smuggling. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Human trafficking…

Mexican immigrants have been partially blamed for it. Which is unfair because the whole population is not smuggling drugs across the border or in underground tunnels, and they’re not all out committing heinous crimes. Yes, there are a few that have criminal backgrounds, have sold and, or smuggled drugs across the border but so have native-born American citizens. U.S. citizens have been smuggling drugs all across the United States even before members of the Mexican community started immigrating…

the right to continue the prevention of production, sale, and use of marijuana under the federal mandate “and to block any state policies to the contrary” (Rauch, 2013). The second disadvantage outlines the fact that there will most likely be more smuggling involved, now that it is easier to obtain marijuana from a legitimate source. The probable case can be related to a similar instances in 2006 where “almost 19% of tobacco sales in California were of smuggled cigarettes, depriving the state of…