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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CASE STUDY: HARD CORE CARTELS Cartel refers to a group of firms producing substitute goods that collude or conspire to increase prices and its own profits‚ by lowering production and/or sharing markets or customers. Figure 1 below shows examples of recent price fixing cases from various countries. (Figure 1) These industries either have a market structure in which a small number of inter-dependent firms dominating the industry‚ that of a oligopoly‚ or are firms
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MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL REPORT CGW4U – MR.LAMBERT JANUARY 20‚ 2014 What’s really amazing about this course is that a lot of variety of topics and issues are discussed that happen around the world. The Mexican Drug Cartel is one of the few topics that haven’t been discussed and that’s what is being written about today. The Mexican Drug Cartel is basically a mini war that goes among rival drug cartels fighting each other for territory and control of traffic. Mexico has a geographically perfect
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control violent attacks was made obvious to the drug cartels‚ who then used this weakness in government to gain political influence with bribery‚ threats‚ and political contributions. Colombia’s isolated landscape abated the ever growing drug production. It’s location in the northwest corner of South America allowed drug shipments to be easily be made to the United States or Europe. From the production and economy of cocaine to the notorious cartels‚ large amounts of drugs imported into the US‚ and
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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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accruing the desired benefits through cartel? Yes. De Beers Succeed in accruing the desired benefits through cartel. De Beers diamond company‚ which controls the market for diamonds around the world‚ causing an artificially inflated price. De Beers has been criticized for its practices‚ and several governments have attempted to undermine the company’s stranglehold on global diamond supplies‚ without success. De Beers was successful in formation of cartel by controling the majority of diamond
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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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“To catch a cartel” Author: Elisabeth Sexton. Date: 21 March 2008 Source: The Sydney Morning Herald The competition watchdog ’s tactic of offering corporate whistleblowers legal immunity to expose cartels is under threat as the government moves to make price-fixing a criminal offence. Elisabeth Sexton reports. Graeme Samuel has a clear recollection of the events of November 22‚ 2004. In the morning‚ the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission received the phone
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Zetas: The World’s Most Dangerous Cartel Juan Carlos Cazares English 111 Mr. Matson Poplar Bluff Abstract This Paper Explores three published articles that report about the famous and notorious Zetas Drug Cartel. They include the Zetas origin. Some of the leaders‚ or drug lords that are involved in the Zetas organization. Some of the crimes they have been rumored to have done. ORIGINS Mexico has been known to transport illegal drugs. There are several drug
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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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