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% of drugs that comes from the southern border of the United States
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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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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 Forces of Colombia (AUC). Since the 1970s‚ Colombia has been home to some of the most violent and sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in the
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The Mexican drug cartels have been a cancer that has grown through out Mexico. Influenced by Colombian cartels‚ such as the Pablo Escobar’s Medellin and the Cali Cartel. In 2008‚ over 5‚600 people were killed in Mexico; many were torture/or beheaded (Hixson‚ 2009). It has stretched from the border town of Tijuana all the way to the beaches of Cancun. Many people have been robbed‚ tortured‚ kidnapped‚ injured‚ and murdered through out the domestic drug war that is going on in Mexico. Police officers
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A widely propagated myth would have us believe that Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera and his Sinaloa Federation are less violent than many of their competitors. Statements from journalists and analysts allege that Sinaloa is more businesslike than Los Zetas‚ whose reputation for brutality is well-documented‚ and that this business savvy somehow renders the group relatively benign. In turn‚ this has led many to believe that the Mexican government could broker a deal with the leader
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Mexico’s War on Drugs Sinaloa is the hometown of the “Sinaloa Cartel” ran by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman it’s labeled as the biggest as well as the most powerfullest cartel. Sinaloa is known as the “The Drug Capital of Mexico.” Not only is it just the Sinaloa Cartel there are other major cartels involved in the War on Drugs. And other trafficking methods are convoluted. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman the head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel was born in Badiraguato Mexico. His life was shaped by his family’s
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Cartel Theory of Oligopoly A cartel is defined as a group of firms that gets together to make output and price decisions. The conditions that give rise to an oligopolistic market are also conducive to the formation of a cartel; in particular‚ cartels tend to arise in markets where there are few firms and each firm has a significant share of the market. In the U.S.‚ cartels are illegal; however‚ internationally‚ there are no restrictions on cartel formation. The organization of petroleum-exporting
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Cartels 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
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A cartel is a formal (explicit) "agreement" among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices‚ marketing‚ and production.[1] Cartels usually occur in an oligopolistic industry‚ where the number of sellers is small (usually because barriers to entry‚ most notably startup costs‚ are high) and the products being traded are usually homogeneous. Cartel members may agree on such matters as price fixing‚ total industry output‚ market shares‚ allocation
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Alan S. Blinder. (2005) Economic Principles and Policy: Thomson South-Western Fiona Carmichael. (2005) A Guide to Game Theory: Pearson Education Andrew F. Daughety. (1988) Cournot Oligopoly: Cambridge University Press Peter Z. Grossman. (2004) How Cartels Endure and How they fail: Edward Elgar Publishing
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