Children start out playing games with fake money and little trinkets, as people get older the little trinkets become more valuable and the money becomes more important. Objects like electronics or houses come into play and all of the sudden it is no longer fun and games. That is why crime rates and drug trafficking in Colombia went up in the 1990’s and the U.S. stepped in to aid the country. Plan Colombia was created in 2000 under the Clinton administration as a way to stop drug trafficking and the 40 year old armed conflict between the FARC and the Colombian government. Plan Colombia was a smart plan on behalf of the Clinton administration in light of the fact that it met all of it’s objectives such as ending the civil war that broke lose
In the last decades, narco trafficking and organized crime had emerged as the main security threats in Latin America. Deviant globalization increase their power by establishing connections with similar organizations in other parts of the world, like cocaine distribution networks, for example. This perceived danger increases the pressure on the governments for effective solutions, and some of them consider that these problems had overwhelmed the capabilities of the local police. Consequently, the intervention of military forces would be necessary to secure the stability of the countries. However, the use of force as the only solution is the outcome of a misunderstanding of the root causes that generates them. This paper presents the research for a general pattern in the region that is helpful to understand how the civil society perceives the failures of governance and how the networks of illegal activities exploit this perception.
Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the
Every Year millions of immigrants get deported back to their countries.They try to come to the US to have a better life and have a great job.We can't judge other people.
It all started in the Chicago School. Robert Park and Ernest Burgess came up with the idea of social ecology. In the in class text, Schmalleger (2009)
By the mid-1980’s Colombian drug cartels controlled most of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. More than 15 tons of cocaine smuggled in each day, netting the cartel as much as $420 million a week. The cartels involved saw it as an opportunity to gain status and defeat the American government. What each person in a cartel was most afraid of was being extradited to the United States.
At the fiesta of El Dia De Los Muertos, which was held on November 1st, 2136. On this day the Keepers have been taken into custody by the Aztlan police. Esperanza Mendoza told Opium Times, “The Aztlan police have wondered for a long time how drugs were being distributed in this country.” Now, Esperanza Mendoza has finally caught the Keepers about their drug trafficking.
Drug trafficking is a major problem in the United States. When this trade reaches third world countries, it usually spreads incredibly fast and law enforcement is more easily corrupted. It is the illegal trade involving cultivation, manufacture, distribution, and the sale of substances which are illegal under the law. The drug trade is estimated to bring in more than $100 billion every year from the U.S. The number of global deaths each year due to illegal drugs is over 200,000.
It is clear that there have been increased occurrences of drug trafficking in the United States and the world as a whole. This increase in drug trafficking has resulted to a radical increase in the number of people who are affected by the illegal drugs. In the United States, the number has risen to about 19.9 billions. This paper will therefore discuss drug trafficking, its causes, effects, prevention and war against it. Whoever will read this paper, he or she will be able to take care of themselves from drug selling, consumption and production. The person will also be able to teach and help others on how to leave or protect themselves from drug abuse and trafficking.
The United States has one of the most profitable drug markets in the world. “As such, it attracts the most ruthless, sophisticated, and aggressive drug traffickers” The United States has such a demand for illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, MDMA, and methamphetamine, that traffickers will do about anything to sneak in the drugs into the country. The majority of the drugs are brought into the country from the border between Mexico and the U.S.A. These drugs are supplied mainly from Mexico, and Colombia. According to the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency, the price of a kilogram of cocaine ranges from $13,000 to $25,000. That is about 2.2 pounds of cocaine. With that kind of profit, we can for sure know that as long as there is demand
Cocaine is produced from the Coca plants usually found in the mountain climates of Colombia. The first cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until 1855. The cocaine alkaloid was first isolated by a German Chemist Friedrick Gaedcke. Cocaine was first used in the 1880’s as an anesthetic in eye, nose, and throat surgeries because of its capability to provide anesthesia as well as to constrict blood vessels and limit bleeding. Its therapeutic applications are obsolete in this day and age because of the technological advances to produce safer drugs . Cocaine is the most devastating and potent stimulant of the natural realm. In this paper I will be discussing the history of cocaine, the impact in the world, and lastly the
The 20th Century Fox film Traffic, written by Stephen Gaghan and directed by Steven Soderbergh, was clearly a brilliant piece of work and it received the highest recognition that films can achieve: it earned Oscars for Best Directing (Soderbergh), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Best Film Editing (Stephen Mirrione), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Gaghan). The film was also nominated as Best Picture but lost out to Gladiator (Rotten Tomatoes). Traffic certainly was a realistic film and its release in 2001 presented the public with a fairly un-Hollywood look into the trafficking culture, the users' culture, and law enforcement's sometimes clumsy attempt to put a stop to trafficking.
In this research paper I will discuss one transnational crime, and compare the contrast of two nations for their definition of the crime rate, and tools used to measure the crime. I will give each country’s legal tradition and their major influences on crime definition, rate, and measurement. In this assignment I will analyze the extent to which crime statistics collected in different nations can adequately be compared.
Drug trafficking is a major issue in Colombia, causing many other issues across the country. Many people involved in the drug trade including civilians are being killed, kidnapped, and injured over this problem. Over the years, the government has started cracking down on the growers, producers, and sellers but so far, they have only caught minor criminals. The government is making agreements with neighboring countries and finding alternative uses for the crops to slow down the production of drugs. Despite all of the efforts being made to stop drug trafficking, violence, and production the cartels are still thriving throughout Colombia.
What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear of the region Latin America? Poverty, violence, drugs? Latin America is a major region where drugs are generated, imported, and exported. The general stereotype with regards to Latin America is that the region is drug infested due to the history of use, the problems regarding drug trafficking, and the continued statistics proving the ongoing use of drugs. Despite the fact that not every country in Latin America fits in this mold, history and data supports this impression.
In Bolivia, even though it is known for its wide variety of landscapes and scenery, many cartels freely control the land working to make, and then traffick drugs into various different countries. None of which is getting better. Over the past few years, drug trafficking and trade moving into, out of, or through Bolivia has been getting increasingly worse. Especially when in the fact that all United States help on the issue have been banned from the country, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA.