During the 1970’s through the late 1990’s Colombia was widely known as the birth place for the cocaine drug traffickers. Colombia has produced the two most famous drug traffickers that have produced lots of cocaine and tons of money. Those drug traffickers were Griselda Blanco and Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and his Medellin Cartel. Pablo Escobar and his cartel, The Medellin Cartel did most destruction to the country of Colombia. But poverty in Colombia has been reduced due to Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel. Since the beginning of La Viuda and Escobar, Colombia has grown as a country with its citizen to do better and prevent these drug lords to do damage once more. Griselda Blanco was the first women drug lord that made the country of Colombia lots of chaos.
Griselda Blanco was known as “La Viuda Negra” (the Black Widow), the “Queen of Cocaine”, or also as “La Madrina (the Godmother). Before all the famous men drug lords in the 1980s and 90s, Blanco was the first pioneer woman in the drug business around the 70s and 80s. Born in 1943, Griselda and her mother, Ana Lucia Restrepo moved from Cartagena, Colombia to Medellin when Blanco was three years old. By the time Blanco was just eleven year’s old living in the slums, she began her life time of crime by kidnapping and killing the son of a wealthy Medellin family. By the time she was just eleven years old she was already pick pocketing to survive the violent environment she lived in. At the age of fourteen Griselda
Many nations across time and the world have experienced a revolution. From the American revolution to the French revolution, history has proven conflict can engage a nation at any moment. Tanter explains that two possible scenarios, changes in the economic development and the level of education are likely to cause revolutions (Tanter 264). A revolution can be composed of a group of individuals who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in exchange for change in the existing
The Mexican Revolution is viewed/ considered as the first major political, social, and cultural Revolution of the 20th century. The united states had a lot of positive outcomes from Mexico, since they were the country that was right next to them, this eventually caused for the US to become involved in the Revolution. The Revolution began in 1910, like any other war it was very devastating that resulted in many deaths. The main purpose for the start of the revolution was to remove Porfirio Diaz from presidency because he was a very impulsive and manipulating man who did not care for others but himself. There were several groups from the US that were involved in the Revolution due to their interest in the population of Mexico.
The Mexican Revolution is a complicated part of the Mexico history and it is very hard to pin down when the revolution had ended. It is something that is highly debated about even in today. History of this period of Mexico is every changing as people interpret what the revolution was about. Some Scholars say 1940’s like Mexican historian Daniel Cosio Villegas while other professors would say that it ends later or early then that. It depends on what you think the Revolution was being fought for. I think that is some ways the Villegas is right, but that depend on my definition of the Mexican Revolution, but overall I must disagree with the statement. I think that it had the end of the tail end of the 1910’s into the 1920’s. I believe in some
After the age of enlightenment, colonies and nations around the world began questioning their rulers and ruling nations. Liberal and nationalist ideas spread across Europe and the world, especially after the French Revolution. When these beliefs spread to the colonies of America, independence movements and revolts occurred. The Latin American revolution and Haitian revolution were both significant events during the 19th century that affected both their respective nations and the world. While both revolutions resulted similarly such that a social hierarchy based on race existed after independence, they differ in that while the Latin American revolutions placed an emphasis on ending the Spanish casta system, Haitian revolution was based on freeing slaves.
The Mexican Revolution is one of the most significant historical events in Mexican history. Without the revolution Mexico would not be the democratic country that it is today. “The Mexican Revolution is often seen as a standard bearer through which other subsequent Latin American revolutions are interpreted.”(Darity) There were several significant events spanning several years that led up to the unrest of the Mexican people resulting in a revolution. For example, the Mexican-American War, and The Reform War which was also a civil war really gave way to the people standing up for what they believed in and revolting. More
The book is a non-fiction book written by, Alan Knight and was Published on May 5, 1980.The Mexican Revolution began in 1910, it began as a movement of a middle-class protest against the long standing dictatorship of Porfirio DIaz. In 1876, Diaz, an Indian general in the Mexican Army, took control of the nation and continued to be elected until 1910, he also had held power in 1876-1911. From 1884 to 1911, he was an unofficial ruler from 1880 to 1884, he was a respected political leader. In 1908, DIaz had an interview with an United States journalist James Creelman, and Diaz told James that would be ready for free elections in 1910, so in 1910, Diaz promised the people that he was going to let there be free elections. Porfirio Diaz was born
Throughout its history Mexico has had many revolutions. The most famous perhaps is the Mexican Revolution from 1910-1920. The people of Mexico were getting tired of the dictator rule of President Porfino Diaz. People of all classes were fighting in the revolution. The middle and upper classes were dissatisfied with the President’s ways. The lower and working class people had many factors such as poor working conditions, inflation, inferior housing, low wages, and deficient social services. Within the classes everyone was fighting; men, women, and children all contributed to the fight for freedom from Diaz (Baxman 2). This revolution proved to be the rise and fall of many leaders.
The drug dealers have captured a great deal of power in Colombia, and have adopted the position of the government in many instances. The drug trade has ruined the image of Colombia, and has caused the world to forget about the other goods produced in Colombia, like coffee, flowers, oil and gas for instance. As the website put out by the Colombian Government Trade Bureau entitled “Colombia Trade News” states,
During the early 1990’s Colombia being one of the biggest exporters of narcotics in history, led by Pablo Escobar, who had a wide range of organized crime affiliations throughout Latin America. Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord and he smuggled narcotics all the way to South Florida as when authorities tried to capture him. One of Pablo Escobar’s most important alliances was that of the Mexican-based traffickers. Escobar knew that this was an important trade route because of its geography and how it would be easier to smuggle the narcotics into the United States. This allowed a smuggling partnership between both countries and Mexico was to eventually lead their own drug based trafficking system with the help of Pablo Escobar. From the distributed drugs, cartels would take a certain amount of profit, and would use that money to bribe Mexican officials. By bribing Mexican officials it was insured that if smugglers were to be arrested they would either be let go, the case would be dropped or taking action against a rival smuggling group by giving away information about the rival’s plan to carry
Mexico was building up to its revolution long before activists like Francisco Madero and Emiliano Zapata. From 1840 to 1910; Mexico went from a war-torn and newly freed nation to a nation on the brink of civil war. How did it get there? Through a series of wars, leaders, and policies, which proved causation politically, socially, and economically to the Mexican Revolution.
Violence in modern Colombia takes place in many forms. The three major categories are crime, guerrilla activities, and attacks committed by drug traffickers. Violence has become so widespread and common in Colombia that many people have now become numb to it. The Colombian economy has also benefited from the illicit drug trade; however violent it may be. During the 1970s, Colombia became well known, as one of the world’s most important drug processing, production, and distribution centers for marijuana and cocaine.
Colombia was one of the three original countries along with Ecuador and Venezuela that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830. Over the last 40 years, there has been a campaign to overthrow the government partially because of the drug trades throughout Colombia. The movement does however lack support from military and support from the necessary influences. In recent years, there have been challenges for control of the territories throughout Colombia and also for the drug trade.
Let’s start from the beginning in the story about “El Pablo Escobar”, who became the king of coke. First of all, Pablo Escobar was from Colombia, Antioquia and born in 1949. Before his time as a drug lord and a murderous criminal, who organized one of the biggest drug trades in the world. He was a boy like any other regular child, who would spend his time cutting people grass to make money. Going camping on the weekends with the boy scouts, learning how to live in the wild. But he was raised up in the harsh time of economy, where people protested, and fought with one another. Escobar seen many deaths growing up, people beating each other up, protesting for better future for Colombia, and riots where hundreds of people who would fight. Where it all began to create a person like
Known as the “Godmother of Cocaine,” Griselda Blanco, was a powerful drug trafficker and murder. Anyone who crossed paths with her and did her wrong in any way, would pay with their blood. Blanco was born to a physically abusive mother in Medellin, Colombia, which lead “her criminal career as a pickpocket” (Ovalle, 2012).
A detailed description of my country and where it’s located and the food there,also I’m gonna talk about the famous landmarks,Im also gonna talk about the famous people who were born there.colombia is located in south america.the food there sounds really good maybe I will go there some time and try it.I hope you like this paper about my country.