Pedro Avilés Pérez‚ Joaquin Guzmán’s uncle. Aviles was a key player in the Sinaloa drug business‚ seen as a pioneer for finding new methods of transporting the rural produce to urban areas for shipment by way of airplanes. He is reportedly the first to use airplanes to smuggle cocaine to the United States. By the time Guzmán was in his 20s‚ his connection to Aviles would be his window of opportunity to start in the drug business and make his fortune. In the late 1970s‚ Héctor "El Güero" Luis Palma
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According to the Huffington Post‚ El Salvador‚ Guatemala‚ and Honduras - where most of these immigrants come from - are all in the top five countries with the highest homicide rates‚ so if the United States is a country of diversity‚ liberty‚ and freedom‚ why build a wall to block out those who want a chance of decent life? During our current president Trump’s candidacy‚ he proposed the idea of building a border wall between the United States and Mexico. As a majority of the population has obviously
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roughly $6.2 billion. In fact‚ some studies show that nationwide profits could even climb as high as $40 billion dollars per year (Miron‚ paragraph 4-5). Across the nation our jails are packed with non-violent people who are there for misdemeanor drug convictions. The savings that legalization of marijuana would yield in reduced costs to penal institutions is in fact one of the leading reasons for minimizing penalties required of individuals found guilty of possession of marijuana. The reduction
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but unlike most states Texas is a state that shares a 1‚254-mile long border with Mexico‚ a country that has their massive problems. Geography alone has provided Texas with problems that are difficult in the best of times‚ but in this age of a huge drug problem in the United States along with the rise of international terrorism‚ those problems have grown exponentially. While it is easy to sit back in the United States and spout out rhetoric claiming that all immigrants should be wholly welcomed‚ the
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with immigrant workers who will perform the same job duties for lower wages. Advocates that side with the illegal immigrants say that the immigrants fill jobs that Americans won’t. Another huge issue with illegal immigration is the war on drugs. Mexican drug cartels transport hundreds of kilos of cocaine‚ heroine‚ and marijuana into the Unites States across the border every day. Mexico has been widely unable to
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Thesis Statement: You should not visit Mexico due to the potential risk of your safety from the ongoing violence of the drug cartels in Mexico. 　 I. Introduction A. Did you know over 60‚000 lives have been lost due to conflicts of the cartel over territory in Mexico? That including 5‚000 disappearances going to Mexico since 2006. 1. Knowing this‚ would you want to take a trip to Mexico to be sitting in the middle of a war? a. Even incoming president for Mexico‚ Pena Nieto‚ said
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Decriminalization The argument on the decriminalization of marijuana has been a large public issue for the past couple decades. What would happen if marijuana were to be decriminalized? Many Americans today tend to believe marijuana should stay illegal for numerous reasons‚ but I believe there are far more benefits to decriminalizing marijuana than keeping it illegal. “Government studies conclude that marijuana decriminalization has had virtually no effect on either marijuana use or beliefs and related
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People wonder what the Capital of Honduras is well if people want to know more they will have to keep reading this essay or research for more details about Honduras. Honduras a beautiful country it has beaches‚ it’s the second largest country in Central America and it has a lot of beautiful mountains. During the first millennium was inhabited by the Maya. Columbus explored the country in 1502. Honduras with four other Central American nations‚ declared its independence from Spain in 1821 to form
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the northeast bordering Honduras‚ Belize‚ and Guatemala. El Salvador is a very mountainous country and its capital is under a volcano. This makes the drug trade very easy for the gangs of El Salvador. The gangs of el Salvador are the Mara Salvatrucha and their rivals the calle 18. Both of these gangs are at war with the police and each other over drug routes. These gangs use the mountains for their operations. The gangs are considered some of the world’s worst and most ruthless. They do not see the
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Mexico and Its Political System Mexico’s current President Enrique Pena Nieto has proposed laws to fight crime in Mexico; unfortunately‚ this is not enough for the people. Mexico’s most controversial issues are government corruption‚ the ongoing drug war and the economy. Corruption has been in Mexico for many years‚ this is because Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has ruled for the past 70 years. As stated in Envio magazine‚ “…is loyal to only two concepts: corruption and impunity”
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