Drug Trafficking In Colombia

Colombia, the country that exports the best coffee is situated in the south side of the American continent. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans surround the occidental coast. The green mountains from the Amazon forest are in the south of the country, and are full of a variety of exotic animals and beautiful flowers that are exported to many places in the world. However, this is not the reason Colombia is so popular. Colombia has the highest rate of drug trafficking in the world. Organizations as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have been trying to stop or reduce the sale of this illegal drug, fighting directly with the criminals and indirectly with the corruption that moves the government in Colombia.
For hundreds of years, South American
As the organization grew in size, power, and wealth, it also grew in ruthlessness and violence. After first establishing their dominance on the South American side of the market, in 1978 and 1979 the Medellín drug bosses turned their attention to control of wholesale distribution in the United States. Thus began a period of violence in South Florida known as "the Cocaine Wars." It peaked in 1981 with a reported 101 drug- related murders in that year” (Drug trafficking in, 2008). “Eight years ago, at the request of the Colombian government, U.S. military forces helped fund and guide a massive manhunt that ended with the killing of Pablo Escobar, the richest cocaine trafficker in the world” (Bowden, 2001). His life was full of luxury residences, automobiles and limitless money hidden in his castles; Medellin, his hometown, always backed up his actions because Escobar helped with the poverty. A complete neighborhood was donated to the poor people near his hometown; essentially he established his own local welfare system. “Pablo Escobar was arguably the richest and most violent criminal in history. Forbes Magazine in 1998 listed him as the seventh-richest man in the world” (Bowden, 2001). His goals never changed and Escobar died trying to enter Colombian
Mexico began to be the new base for Colombian drug dealers. A new battle for power started, and the volume of murders in Mexico has increased very rapidly.” Most of the cocaine leaves the country by sea, on fast boats that transport the drugs up along the Central American coast for their eventual smuggling into the United States overland through Mexico”. (Colombia announces record, 2007) Despite the old economic ties that Colombians and Mexicans had in the past as boarder neighbors, when money and power are in the middle; neighbors are seen as rivals and enemies. The problem is worse when the only victims are the common people, and their only fault is walking in the street near to a criminal. This is why for many years Colombia has had many kinds campaigns to reduce the consumption of drugs, and so eliminate the murders. In Colombia, not only the police work for this goal, but also the people who always say no to the drugs. That is another reason why the traffickers moved to Mexico. Drug trafficking is a problem that effects many countries especially Colombia for the murders criminal rate and the United State of America for the consumption. “Operation Steady State is jointly inaugurated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with local authorities in Peru and