Due to systematic racial exclusion from the economy during and immediately after the colonial period in Trinidad and Tobago, the majority of business owners at the formation of the Colombian drug cartels belonged to one of the following ethnicities: Syrian/Lebanese or East Indian. With international business connections and arrangements typically falling along racial, and sometimes familial lines, the primary cartels (Cali and Medellin) employed ethnically homogenous networks of traffickers to transport their product from Colombia to the United States. The Medellin cartel utilized a network of descendents of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who came to the Caribbean at the start of the 20th century, some of whom Figueria alleges in Cocaine and Heroin trafficking in the Caribbean came to Trinidad to expand their heroin trafficking empire. The Cali cartel employed a similar network of Indians, whose ancestors came to the islands during British rule, and enjoyed a privileged position over the Afro-Trinidadian and Tobagonian slaves they replaced as indentured servants. While the bulk of the profits from the cocaine trade ultimately found their way back to Colombia, the networks of Syrian/Lebanese and Indian traffickers grew to great relative wealth for their participation in the market.…
Please read the article by Robert C. Bonner, “The New Cocaine Cowboys: How to Defeat…
It had its origins in the northwest Pacific coast of Mexico, in the state of Sinaloa (Feuer and Goldstein 2). Two of the cartel’s biggest rivals are the Juarez cartel and the Los Zetas cartel. The Sinaloa cartel controls up to forty to sixty percent of all of Mexico’s drug trade (“Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Fast Facts” 2). It stretches all the way from New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is estimated that it operates in fifty countries and in seventeen Mexican states. The cartel earns three billion dollars annually, making it one of the most powerful drug cartels in the…
There are seven drug cartels in Mexico (CRS 1). The most important cartels are Sinaloa and Juarez. The Sinaloa cartel operates in the states of Nayarit, Sinaloa and Mexico State (Reforma 1). The Juarez cartel operates in Sinaloa, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Morelos; and Quintana Roo. Mexican cartels employ individuals and groups of enforcers, known as sicarios. Statistics show that more than twenty people are killed daily in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua in crimes related to drugs. Drug lords send their gunmen to strategic places where innocent people that are in the wrong place at the wrong time are killed. Narco Lords like Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Joaquin el Chapo Guzman, fight among themselves for the territory in Chihuahua and Sinaloa. Every death increases the power that the Cartels have. In order to combat their illicit activity, The Mexican government should not delegate control of the States of Chihuahua and Sinaloa to drug cartels due to the lack of economic resources, lack of armament, and corruption.…
I believe that the Sinaloa Cartel is the most powerful and poses the greatest challenges for the United States. The Sinaloa Cartel is the single largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization, according to the United States. Also, the Gulf Cartel (Los Zetas) is on the rise to be the next powerful group after the Sinaloa Cartel. The Los Zetas is known as the most violent group in Mexico and are being controlled by the deserters of the Mexican military’s Special Air Mobile Force Group.…
The article “A Mexican Drug Cartel Rise to Dominance” by Theunis Bates gives a little background of how the Mexican cartel became so vicious. The drug cartels have been around for many years, and it all started when they would smuggle heroin and marijuana to the United States. Things got really bad when Columbia started using Mexico’s routes to import cocaine the United States. The Columbians ended up hiring Cartels from Mexico to import the drugs, and when one of the leaders got caught they had a lot of power that some hit men took over and the rivalry started. The cartels do not fight just to fight they end up committing violent crime and they do not only hurt each other, but they hurt innocent people that were at the wrong place at the wrong time…
Finally, one of the main reasons Joaquín Guzman is known is because of his extremely long history of drug trafficking. The Sinaloa took control of the cocaine trade extending from South America to the United States, under Guzman’s control. Sinaloa Cartel has also trafficked heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States. Eventually, the cartel’s ghastly behavior touched five continents and grew to be the biggest drug operation in the world. With a net worth of nearly $1 billion dollars and being the 10th richest man in Mexico was all because of his infamous drug…
Mexico’s is at its thinnest line of being uncontrolled. Cartels are a big problem in Mexico and are ruining the country; they are a serious mater in the world we live in today. The cartels are formed in groups and structures to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs. They are criminal groups that develop and control drug trafficking operations. Mexico, the state that is right now is a very heavy situation that is difficult to control. Cartels range from wacky managed agreements and work separately and have rivals they are to dodge. The Country, Mexico is a major supplier of heroin to the U.S. market, and the largest foreign supplier of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. Cartels are not only in Mexico but around the world as well, even some cartels have moved forward in the United States.…
David Mares gives us insight into the political economy of drug trafficking in his book Drug Wars and Coffee Houses. To help us understand how psychoactive substances are organized and distributed, he uses the concept of a commodity chain. A commodity chain is the system that links consumption of psychoactive substances to everything that makes it possible, and proves that if something affects one phase of the system, the other phases are affected as well. Consumers and producers in this system depend on each other, and “neither one could exist without the other” (Mares, p.13). The whole system consists of various pieces that ultimately work towards getting the consumer what they want, and from a producer who actually has what they want. Since consumers and producers are rarely ever in the same place, consumers get their substances from a transportation network. These traffickers get the substances from the producers, and just like any other business, producers need various inputs. This includes “labor, chemicals, and in the case of illegal products, perhaps weapons and corrupt officials, to produce and transport the substance” (Mares, p.13). So then we have the people who provide these inputs. Playing with drug money can get messy, so then money launderers come into the picture. The commodity chain system that Mares presents helps us organize and understand how all these roles connect to get a psychoactive substance produced and distributed to consumers.…
“More than 5,900 pounds of cocaine and more than 2.2 million pounds of marijuana” had been taken into custody by border guards. In the meantime it had become clear that illegal immigration from Mexico is closely linked to the problem of drug trafficking, the so-called Mexican drug war. Hundreds of unauthorized immigrants carrying drugs are attempting to cross the border, every week. Mostly, these immigrants are the owners of forged papers and they are supported by information about the best points of entry by Mexican drug lord. 80 percent of cocaine and 50 percent of heroine of the total amount of drugs reaching the U.S. are smuggled across the U.S.-Mexican border. The crime rate along the border and also inside the country has increased due to the unimaginable extent of poverty. (Border Patrol Overview: Drug…
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Substance abuse and consumption have become an epidemic in America. The use of drugs results in countless drug-related deaths and causes states to spend billions of dollars to combat drug trafficking. Drugs are shipped in by sea, air, automobile, and even smuggled in by person. These drugs are supplied by drug cartels. These criminal organizations where formed to promote, control, produce, and distribute narcotic drugs. While these cartels operate from all parts of the world, some of the most infamous are the Mexican and Columbian Cartels. America has put policies into combating drug trafficking, however these policies are not effective as drug abuse is at a society crippling high.…
As Americans in the United States face the war on drugs, we struggle to get a grip on the killer of a nation. It seems as if illegal narcotics are killing and destroying families at an alarming rate. Since the early eighties, children have dropped out of school to make a profit from this dream killer. Many parents were either addicted to these illegal drugs, or in denial of their corruption. In many legal cases you hear the convicted say, “We don’t have poppy fields in North America,” which leads our government to do critical speculation. Where do these drugs come from? How are they entering our states and destroying families? These are the questions that many have. Upon research, it has become clear that the Mexican Cartels are the main and biggest contributors to the narcotic empire. Pushing illegal drugs from Mexico through the border of Lerado, Mexico and Lerado, Texas has been the success of these cartels in distributing drugs into the United States. Government officials face the horror of senseless deaths as the fight for War on Drugs begins.…
Colombia's government and the rebel group FARC reached an agreement May 17, 2014 on ending the illegal drug trade. The deal called for FARC to cooperate with the government in convincing farmers to grow crops other than coca, which is used to make cocaine. The announcement was made Friday in Havana where the two sides have been negotiating an end to a 50-year-old insurgency. Colombia was the world's leading producer of cocaine until Peru recently overtook it in cultivation of coca. The cocaine industry has been the major source of funds for the Marxist rebel group and a cause of crime and instability in the South American country. With the agreement on ending the drug trade, the two sides have resolved three of the six points on their agenda. Previously FARC and the government had reached deals on agrarian reform and political participation.…
Aside from being among the most undesirable of places that a person could live, the inner cities of the United States are said to be a horrible gangland full of murder, prostitution, and drugs. While this description is overblown in some cases, the inner city definitely resembles the definition given. Inner cities across the country are havens for gangs and the activities that keep them financially viable: prostitution, robbery, and drugs. The focus of this paper will deal with the problem of drugs in the inner city. Rejecting a broad definition of “drugs,” that includes alcohol, cigarettes, and legal prescription drugs, I will be concentrating on the illicit “street drugs” that proliferate in the inner cities of the United States. In particular, this paper will deal with the inner city drug problem in the Chicago area.…