One of the major issues facing Latin America is the production and distribution of illegal drugs‚ which include cocaine‚ marijuana‚ heroin and more recently methamphetamine. This geographic area is crucial to the illegal drug industry because it is the world’s only source region for coca‚ which is used to produce cocaine (this is harvested in Colombia‚ Peru and Bolivia). Also‚ Central America‚ Mexico and the Caribbean are the main corridors for transporting drugs to the United States and Europe. The
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Pakistan. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. Collier‚ R. and Collier‚ D. (1991) Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures‚ the Labor Movement‚ and Regime Dynamics in Latin America Das Gupta‚ J. (1989) ‘India: Democratic Becoming and Combined Development’‚ in L. Diamond‚ J. J. Di Palma‚ G. (1990) To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions. Berkeley CA: University of California Press. Fukuyama‚ F. (1993) ‘The Primacy of Culture’‚ in L. Diamond and M. F. Plattner (eds)‚ The Global Resurgence
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Short Thought Essay on Drugs Marijuana is the most commonly abused drug used by teenagers. Adults‚ teens‚ and even children abuse drugs. The war on drugs does not do much to solve the problems of people abusing drugs. The war on drugs has been inefficient to the world. History has proven that the war on drugs has been a defeat. In the last four decades‚ the government has spent over 2.5 trillion dollars to fight the war on drugs. In those years‚ the number of drug abusers has risen to
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declared a “war on drugs” in 1971‚ the war escalated during the Reagan presidency and shifted its focus from treatment toward incarceration and law enforcement. As George Moss and Evan Thomas explain‚ Reagan came to Washington “committed to waging a war on drugs and bringing the international drug trade under control” in 1981. Thanks to the rise of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia and other cartels in Latin America during the 1980s‚ illegal drug trade networks flourished‚ and America became “the
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I have a dream that one day America will be drug free. We lose so many people each year because of drugs. I’m not even fifteen and I have seen many people die and have their kids taken away from them because of drugs. When people hear drugs they think of heroin and cocaine‚ but it can also come from a simple blood pressure pill‚ I know this by seeing it happen.Today two years ago my grandpa died from a simple prescription drug‚ he was depressed therfore he overdosed on blood pressure medicine. The
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The United States of America©s war on drugs today is very similar to America©s Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920©s. These two major issues of their time may not seem like they can be logically compared‚ but statistics for usage and a correlating rise in crime for both eras show a strong relationship. There is also a tendency for an outright defiance of the laws and law makers of the United States government in both cases. Most people today think that the prohibition of the 1920©s and
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billion over the course of the American drug prohibition effort‚ it might be prudent to ask the question‚ "Are we making any progress?" ("Ron"). Amazingly‚ the answer from experts on both sides of the issue is a resounding "no." It is clear at this point that the War on Drugs has ultimately failed‚ while the collateral consequences of pursuing drug prohibition have left America in a disastrous state‚ rife with both economic and social problems. While American drug prohibition was in motion via legislation
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countries in Latin America with Cuba being the largest island in the Caribbean. Found just off the coast of Florida‚ the communist country of Cuba has many crime issues which include a large commercial sex trade and drugs. The age of consent is 16 whereas it is 18 in the United States. Cuba is surrounded by countries used as cartel way stations. Latin American drug flows to the United States are shifting away from Mexico and toward the Caribbean. Fidel Castro ran into a drug smuggling scandal during
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"Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s futile war on drugs in Latin America" Edited by Ted Galen Carpenter Overview Introduction 3 I Modest results after thirty years of war 4 The war on drugs consequences on the drugs crops cultivation 4 The war on drugs consequences on the Latin American opinion 5 II The American strategy on the drug war: definitively a bad strategy? 8 The United States’ strategy on the war on drugs 8 The causes of the American’s strategy
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is drugs‚ around 38‚000 people in just 2010 died of drug overdoses just in America. One very crazy thing is‚ in 2006 there was over 8‚000 people died from cocaine in America. In 2011 over 17‚000 people died of taking to many painkillers. In 2013 over 9‚000 people died from heroin in just America‚ how crazy is it that so many people are dying from this stuff. Over 25‚000 people in America died from the overdose of prescription drugs in just 2014! We need to fix this huge problem facing America. This
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