The two strongest groups called themselves the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the other was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Making things worse‚ in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They were made mainly of drug traffickers and landowners. The main paramilitary group called themselves the United Self Defense
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Mohammad Saadeldin Research paper 4/22/16 Erin Fujinami Drug Cartels in Mexico Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today. Illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production‚ distribution‚ packaging‚ and sale of illegal substances. Although today’s "War on Drugs" is a modern phenomenon‚ drug problems have been a common problem throughout history. Mexico is responsible for 90%
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The Sinaloa Cartel is the largest drug empire in the world responsible for smuggling about a quarter of all illegal drugs in the U.S. from Mexico with an estimated revenue over 3 billion dollars. Forbes Magazine added its leader‚ Juaquin “El Chapo” Guzman‚ to the 2009 billionaires list and in 2013 ranked him as the 67th most powerful person in the world. What truly defines the Sinaloa Cartel as a Hybrid Threat to the U.S. is its widespread network with criminal organizations throughout the world
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Summary This paper summarizes the activity of the drug cartels that is responsible for terrorizing the citizens inside and outside Mexico. They are responsible for ruining young people’s lives by making them addicted to the drugs. These drug cartels are in Mexico and send drugs illegally throughout the world and their goal to make a lot of money by making more people to purchase their drugs. These organizations work like Mafia that no power could stop them from doing so. They have threatened people
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War on Drugs: Mexican Cartels Geography101B Baker College As Americans in the United States face the war on drugs‚ we struggle to get a grip on the killer of a nation. It seems as if illegal narcotics are killing and destroying families at an alarming rate. Since the early eighties‚ children have dropped out of school to make a profit from this dream killer. Many parents were either addicted to these illegal drugs‚ or in denial of their corruption. In many legal cases you hear the convicted
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getting kidnapped or murdered by any cartel affiliated member. Of course‚ the violence between and within the various cartel organizations receives much of the spotlight and therefore frightens the public. Truth is‚ the majority of the Mexican cartels are not out hunting to harm tourists or even the locals; their primary focus is the economics and well-being of their drug business. Even though Mexican cartels are depicted as being violent and prone to crimes‚ their cartel behavior indicates the “business-like”
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Project Final Draft The War between the two major drug cartels in Mexico‚ Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Drug Cartel‚ has exploded to new extremes and is now affecting multiple countries. There are multiple cartels in Mexico who control certain sections of the country‚ but all have aligned with one or the other of the two Goliaths. This war started over the drug routes stemming from southern Mexico to the United States of America. The Sinaloa Cartel has controlled these routes for many decades; however
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organizations. However‚ a close examination of Sinaloa’s evolution demonstrates the group is hardly the hallmark of civility. In fact‚ the history of Mexico’s cartel wars over the past decade reveals that Guzman‚ his Sinaloa Federation and the various cartels with which they partner have been more territorially aggressive than any other Mexican cartel. Expansion and Escalation Sinaloa incursions upset the balance of power that Miguel Angel “El Padrino” Felix Gallardo established in the late 1980s when
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There are a number of factors that sustaining a cartel. Firstly‚ if there are few firms involved‚ it is easy to monitor each other in terms of quantity and price setting. It is easy to detect because it is observable if one firm’s Market share has risen‚ especially where there are a larger number of firms involved. Secondly‚ a cartel is more stable in markets where price and quantity are easy to observe. If a Market has frequent change in demand‚ input costs and other factors‚ then the price
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The international issue of drug cartels and the threats posed by drugs has been approached in many ways and have altered throughout its history. Its deleterious effects on citizens and national governments have been most brutally evident in Latin America. The expansion of drug cartels and their increasing authority and influence in Latin America posses various national and international threats. Additionally‚ the contradicting notions on the root of the conflict in Latin America have stalled and
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