Nowadays‚ the Colombian government is closing the agreements with Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia‚ FARC. These agreements will take Colombia to a different environment where the security institutions will have to focus on problems that have a diverse nature. These challenges are going to be drug trafficking‚ corruption‚ illegal economies‚ criminal gangs‚ and Venezuelan instability‚ among others. The mission command philosophy‚ applied in all levels of planning‚ may have a valuable and
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Smuggling and the Hawkhurst Gang 1. From this source (source A) we can learn why people smuggled at this time (18th century) because in source A it wrote ‘The common people of England in general fancy there is nothing in the crime of smuggling … the poor feel they have a right to shun paying any duty [tax]on their goods’. Smugglers thought that smuggling wasn’t a crime; in fact they thought they were providing a service (1747 – John Taylor‚ the keeper of New Gate Prison). The quote shows the
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Should taxes on alcohol be raised? Consequences of alcohol tax rates on beverages consumption and alcohol-related complications have been widely studied over the past fifty years. Nowadays‚ the challenge for both economists and politicians is to estimate and form a tax level that maximizes social prosperity and most efficiently increases incomes. Alcohol taxation is an essential component of a complete alcohol control strategy. Even if any increase in alcohol tax rates will not cause a significant
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Lukas Overman Bristow/Hoffer English 111 October 8‚ 2015 Dead and Undead Trafficking Human trafficking is very prevalent problem in the United States that still goes on today. It is the obtainment‚ for financial gain‚ of illegal entry into a place of which that person isn’t a citizen nor a resident. The reasons people are smuggled are endless and are even illustrated in books now. Most of the time people are being trafficked is for forced labor. No matter what the reason is‚ it is still
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recovery in the U.S. unemployment situation. With this notion‚ what is the underground market? And what are the entities of this resource? The underground economy is goods or services are traded illegally! It consist of criminal nature‚ such as smuggling‚ counterfeiting‚ prostitution‚ drug dealing‚ and gambling‚ but also includes legitimate lines of work (Heide B. Malhotra‚ 2000-2005). The international countries alone trades an estimated total of $625.63 billion a year all completely under the
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recovery in the U.S. unemployment situation. With this notion‚ what is the underground market? And what are the entities of this resource? The underground economy is goods or services are traded illegally! It consist of criminal nature‚ such as smuggling‚ counterfeiting‚ prostitution‚ drug dealing‚ and gambling‚ but also includes legitimate lines of work (Heide B. Malhotra‚ 2000-2005). The international countries alone trades an estimated total of $625.63 billion a year all completely under the
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In the 1980s Miami Florida was just beginning to rise as the crime capital of the nation‚ but it had been the drug capital for a decade. An estimated 70% of Cocaine imported to the U.S passes through South Florida. When president of Cuba Fidel Castro agreed to allow citizens to leave in response to a tough Cuban economy‚ many of them departed to the United States and landed in South Florida‚ unfortunately many of those allowed to leave were convicted criminals. Adding these dubious characters into
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state department (Florida NOW Trafficking‚ 2016). Human Smuggling is also defined similar to that the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime which states‚ “ the procurement‚ in order to obtain‚ directly or indirectly‚ a financial or other material benefit‚ of the illegal entry of a person into a State of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident”(UNCTOC). Differences between the 2: Illegal smuggling requires illegal crossing of borders of another country. Where
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On February 11‚ 2016‚ more than fifty current and former correctional officers were indicted for accepting bribes to smuggle contraband into correctional facilities across Georgia (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]‚ 2016). Some of the contraband smuggled into the facilities by the correctional officers include: drugs‚ weapons‚ and cell phones (FBI‚ 2016). Contraband is defined as excess personal property or anything that is exported or imported into a correctional facility that is prohibited
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Alien smuggling involves people‚ who knowingly enter a foreign country illegally‚ and who are aided by a person usually from that country for monetary gain. The causes for the increase in human trafficking are due mainly because of poverty‚ oppression and war.
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