comprehension of the international drug trade‚ and its relation to these Islands. The Cali and Medellin cartels‚ Colombian cocaine producers had two primary routes for exporting their product to the United States and Europe‚ by land and by sea. The land route entailed travel through central America‚ entering the United States via the border with Mexico. To reach Europe and the Atlantic coastline‚ cartels would bring their product to Trinidad or Tobago‚ either via airdrop or clandestine boat landings leaving
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Analysis of “La Reyna del Inframundo” The notorious drug war and wanton violence is taking over Mexico. The government and police seem to have no control over the situation as the drug cartels have the most power out of anyone in the country. However‚ there are a few who attempt to denounce the violence of the drug cartels that spreads across the country like a bloody wildfire through poetry‚ music‚ and painting. Javier Sicilia‚ a poet‚ denounces the drug violence that killed his son through his last
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The Truce on Drugs‚ a 2012 article in New York Magazine by Benjamin Wallace-Wells‚ seeks to assess some of the history as well as the aftermath of the infamous war on drugs in the United States. He discusses the point that the real issue with the international and domestic drug trade is the violence associated with it‚ not the drugs or drug trade itself. Granted‚ there are other negative effects of drug use on communities‚ but they are not as pressing as the violence that stems from the trade. Wallace-Wells
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government deploy numbers of border security to the border‚ so that there will be no loophole for illegal immigrants and cartel to move guns and drugs. Therefore crossing the country‚ the migrant has to undergo the due process by applying for validated‚ biometric entry keys to cross our border safely and legally. It will free up our border security cadre to focus on preventing cartels‚ traffickers and terrorists from exploiting holes in our current
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analysis of these growing illicit networks involved with narcotrafficking. They cover important topics such as the permeation of the drug trade in countries like Mexico and Brazil‚ the role of intermediaries in narcotrafficking‚ the creation of micro-cartels‚ and the importance of narco/political nexus in the LATAM drug trade. Ultimately‚ the works suggest that counternarco efforts over the past couple of years in Latin America have only challenged the traffickers to seek new channels and form new networks
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the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to protest against some of the American trade practices. As a result of this embargo‚ the price of oil increased by 300%‚ causing widespread oil shortages and in some cases forcing petrol stations to close. Experts have warned that a similar crisis may be imminent‚ with Western countries’ presence in the middle east causing friction with some of the countries who are members of OPEC. Oil prices have been increased in many areas in an
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fully realized. The first situation is that of Narcos. Controlling the laws‚ economy‚ and social structure of not only towns but entire provinces as illustrated by the Medellin Cartel‚ Sinaloa Cartel‚ and Knights Templar Cartel‚ they are absolutely ruthless in maintaining and expanding their power and influence. Cartels have no qualms with taking another human life‚ judge or not‚ as shown by previous judges who have tried to protect justice such as Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. Additionally‚ Narcos often
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She first discusses how the media found the narcoculture profitable to negotiate the news and the extravagance of the drug cartels. Therefore‚ this lead to a sudden increasement in narcocorridos‚ narconovelas‚ narcofashion‚ and more. The media condemns the cartels while at the same time‚ profit accessories and materials that would give earnings to the media. Furthermore‚ she discusses the economic patterns lived in Sinaloa‚ the state from where
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most manufacturing and transportation sectors. The rise in the oil prices occurred in the third and fourth quarter of 1999. Zimbabwe does produce oil‚ so it depended on imports‚ so an increase in the price on the international market as result of OPEC cartel agreements‚ will drastically increase prices of most goods and this is a classic example of imported inflation. Fiscal deficits Budget deficits have been increasing more rapidly since 1997 after payment of the war-veterans gratuities which were
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SOME CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS Oligopoly: An economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market price of a commodity. COLLUSIVE OLIGOPOLY: Cartels: In a Cartel type of collusion‚ firms jointly fix a price and output policy through agreements. Basically‚ the term ‘cartel’ was used for the agreement in which there existed a common agency which alone undertook the selling operations of all
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