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 “There is
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Human Trafficking Brianna is a waitress in a small town in Washington state. As she takes orders and serves food‚ repeats‚ “Hello‚ my name is Brianna and I will be your waitress today. Can I start you off with a drink?” over and over‚ she thinks of many things. Perhaps she thinks about cheering at the next football game or the fact that she’ll have to clean her room when she gets home. Maybe she wonders if the steak is really as good as everyone says or how she’ll celebrate her birthday in a few
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Mexican Political Culture As once put by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz‚ Mexico is a land of “super-imposed pasts” (McCormick‚ p.326). It continues to be and is seen as a melding pot of its European and Native American ideas about society‚ law and government. Its history has had a major influence on the political culture of Mexico‚ seen through years of revolution‚ violence and corruption. Mexico is a considered a new democracy‚ but there is a tension still seen between democracy and authoritarianism
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minimum): The USA should end the war on drugs by decriminalizing it and regulating it. This is a major issue in my eyes. Billions of dollars are wasted on a war that has lost its effectiveness. Meanwhile instead of spending money to prohibit something‚ you can make money regulating it. Gang activity will for sure decrease as drug money is their main source of income. Also this war exists not only in the USA‚ but it seeps into other countries such as Mexico. The raw violence that occurs internationally
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Drugs Introduction to Drugs: A drug is a substance which may have medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food. What is considered a drug rather than a food varies between cultures‚ and distinctions between drugs and foods and between kinds of drug are enshrined in laws which vary between jurisdictions and aim to restrict or prevent drug use. Even within a jurisdiction
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2004:42) defines human trafficking as the: recruitment‚ transportation‚ transfer‚ harbouring or receipt of persons by means of the threat or coercion or forms of abduction‚ of fraud‚ of deception‚ of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person‚ for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include the exploitation
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Human Trafficking and Slavery Introduction: “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln It was in 1863 that Abraham Lincoln called for the end of slavery in the United States of America‚ a mere two years later the 13th amendment was passed abolishing slavery in most parts of the US. Over the following decades the remainder of the world followed suit outlawing and abolishing slavery in their respective governments. However this was not the end of slavery
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organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice‚ the outrage‚ of human trafficking‚ which must be called by its true name—modern slavery. Human trafficking is the recruitment‚ harboring‚ transportation‚ provision‚ or obtaining of a person for commercial sex or forced labour. If we let them‚ traffickers and predators will continue to take our children. Human trafficking is out of control‚ it has surpassed
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Illicit Drug Trafficking Background Drug trafficking and illicit trade has proven to be a major problem that the international community faces as it enters into the twenty-first century. Currently the illegal drug trade market is one of the largest sectors of the modern global economy. Because of this fact‚ the drug trade is deeply rooted in many nations economic and social cultures‚ which makes it very difficult to control. Drug trafficking also brings with it the problems of organized crime
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Human Trafficking affects billions of women; it may affect their physical and/or cognitive development. How does this trend start? Who are the victims? Can they be freed? What are the end results for them? It is a modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain (“Homeland Security‚” 2015). These people are forced to engage in sex acts or/and labor aids. Many may get the misconception that it only affects females but in reality‚ it happens amongst
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