Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman‚ leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. This escape evokes the question of what should be the best approach when pursuing high value wanted criminals‚ and how are we going to train these special forces to do what is best for the people of Mexico. NBC have stated that : “Authorities nearly caught Sinaloa Cartel leader El Chapo during a recent operation on a ranch in Sinaloa state’s rugged Sierra Madre mountains “ I believe that the Mexican community struggles to see if this event was
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come to mind when thinking about Colombian crime are relatively obvious: drug cartels‚ terrorism and corrupt politics. As a non-Colombian looking at these three major areas of crime one could receive a poor view of the nation of Colombia due to some of their flaws. The first thing to consider is the most obvious‚ the Colombian drug cartels. Colombia‚ like most of South America‚ has become synonymous with the drug cartels that operate within the country. However Colombia was definitively the
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money‚ houses‚ cars‚ and even sexual activity from the drug cartels. For example‚ letting cartels smuggle drugs across the border into the United States by allowing them to go through their line with no issues. After allowing this to happen the officers knew a payment would be coming shortly. Just like in the article‚ the nine officers who were charged with bribery or smuggling received sixty-thousand dollars for a single shift. The cartels nowadays are getting smarter by organizing their recruits
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article “La Narcocultura: Simbología de la Transgresión‚ El Poder y la Muerte.‚” Nery Córdova discusses the drug culture by conducting an ethnography. The author writes its research by treating narcoculture as the modern subculture product of the drug trafficking business in Mexico. The author uses interviews and contextual historical factors‚ narcocorridos to understand the normalization of the drug business and the relationship between culture and transgression. The article analyses the topic through
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Abstract: Colombia is internationally notorious for the trafficking of illicit drugs‚ and for the past thirty years. Its impact of politics and society has been immense. This essay will highlight and expand to what extent have Colombia’s socio-politics been affected. It will firstly highlight‚ the damaging effects of the narcotics industry‚ by explaining 1) the economic effects‚ 2) undermining the authority of the Colombian Government through funding Guerrilla and paramilitary groups and social consequences
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INTRODUCTION A cartel is a group of formally independent producers whose goal it is to fix prices‚ to limit supply and to limit competition. Cartels are prohibited by antitrust laws in most countries; however‚ they continue to exist nationally and internationally‚ formally and informally. A single entity that holds a monopoly cannot be a cartel‚ though it may be guilty of abusing said monopoly in other ways. As such‚ it is inaccurate to describe (for example) Microsoft or AT&T as cartels. Cartels usually
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“OPEC As a CARTEL” There are two kinds of extreme market structure and they are perfect competition and imperfect competition. In a perfectly competitive market there are many numbers of sellers and many numbers of buyers selling and buying homogeneous products‚ therefore there is very little impact of a single buyer or seller changing the price of his/her product. In an imperfect competitive market there are few sellers and these sellers have some control over the prices and output of the
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the biggest players in organized crime ever. Pablo Escobar’s savage mind set is what set him different from other drug traffickers in Colombia. If he caught you stealing from him‚ he would have your hands caught off. Because of so many people after him‚ he decided to join forces with other gangs and big dogs in the drug trade. This was the formation of the Medellin Cartel. The cartel had great success. They had cocaine running through Colombia‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Honduras‚ the United States ‚ as well
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------------------------------------------------- The effects of the ‘War on Drugs’ Preface The purpose of this report is to get an insight in the relationship between illegal drugs and violence in Mexico. The rapport focuses on the relationship between Mexico and the United States‚ the effects of the ‘War on Drugs’ and the situation now a day. This report consists of an introduction of the relationship between Mexico and the United States involving Drugs. In the following chapter the current situation will be
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benefits are economy‚ peace‚ and health. But also‚ there exist issues that one needs to think about them carefully before one make a decision. For example‚ marijuana is a drug‚ it affects the brain and then its functions on thinking‚ and the memory. So what I think is that our society is ready to legalize that drug‚ making rules and laws to control the use of it. Because marijuana can be used as medicine but if it is used in excess it becomes dangerous that is exactly the same what happens
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