Ynthesization In Colombia

The drug trade is a very large and complex system. There are many different organizations involved at different levels. There are groups that operate only in growing and selling the product, and only groups that buy and distribute the drugs. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences of two of the largest growers and sellers in the drug trade: The Cali Cartel of Columbia and the Tijuana Cartel of Mexico.

The United States has a long history of intervention in the affairs of one it’s southern neighbor, Latin America. The war on drugs has been no exception. An investigation of US relations with Latin America in the period from 1820 to 1960, reveals the war on drugs to be a convenient extension of an almost 200 year-old policy. This investigation focuses on the commercial and political objectives of the US in fighting a war on drugs in Latin America. These objectives explain why the failing drug policy persisted despite its overwhelming failure to decrease drug production or trafficking. These objectives also explain why the US has recently exchanged a war on drugs for the war on

We know that drugs have been analyzed in the context of popular opinion. Now, let' us analyze its impact on literature. The history of drugs in Colombia since the 19th century has been marked by some changes in so many aspects. We talk about the development in social and political terms, but more importantly how the problem of drugs has been analyzed from a literature perspective. Francisco E. Thoumi, in his book, Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia affirms: "The processes of coca growing and cocaine manufacturing are well known and have been discussed in recent literature frequently” here, he sustains that the impact of drugs in Colombia has been analyzed most in recent literature works than in political

Drug trafficking, a multi-billion dollar global business, is of growing concern to almost all countries around the world. To be specific, it has been a concern to all governments, as part of their job is the protection of the citizens. With the interference of drugs, it is not helping because it leads to many diseases, crimes and the death of many people. Drug trafficking is mainly the global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws; and illegal drug trade which is considered a global black market.

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. The market for illegal drugs is massive, when we consider the estimated global drug trade value is worth $321 billion (Vulliamy). The most drug trafficking happens on the border between Mexico and the United States. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, “Our neighbor is the largest consumer of drugs in the world. And everybody wants to sell him drugs through our door and our window”

Drug trafficking is the worldwide illegitimate trade, which involve the cultivating, producing, distributing and the selling of materials that are subject to the drug proscription laws. There are a number of drugs which are trafficked into the United States. These include, but are not limited to heroin, marijuana and cocaine. The system of drug trafficking in the United States as well as in other countries and continents remains very complex. Although the government and non-government bodies have set important laws to exclude the practice, drug trafficking has been a disturbing problem for many years. Many people who venture into this dangerous and prohibited business do it in search for money. It has been a belief that drug trafficking gives people a

Currently, increasing frequency of incidents related to substance addictions is a worrying issue. It shows that in Colombia there is a wide availability of psychoactive substances reinforced by the inequities of social and economic factors that have precipitated the increased incidence and prevalence of drug use, predominantly in young population groups. (Silva, Simich, Strike, Brands, Giesbrecht & Khenti, 2012). It was determined that incidence of consume of any illegal drugs (marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine or heroin) was 5.9% of population, estimated at over one million one hundred thousand men (11.4% from the consumer percentage) and nearly three hundred thousand women (1.9% from the consumer percentage). There is a steady increase in

Drug trafficking is one of the many evils that plagues the contemporary world. It causes violence, corruption and drug addiction. Brazil, sharing borders with three of the largest producers of cocaine, is a hub for trafficking as drugs are brought into Brazil to be consumed or shipped onwards to the US, Western Europe and even Japan. The frequent drug transfers have created violence and unrest in Brazil, not to mention addiction and drug dependency.

Drug trafficking is an international trade entailing the planting, manufacture, disbursement, as well as sale of substances that are subject to drug ban rules. It is amid the most profitable unlawful businesses, which prevails all over the globe. Currently, there are numerous illicit groups, which every year make profits from drug trade (Lacher, 2013). Fighting drugs is a contemporary issue, challenging crime management. Heroin and cocaine are the main drugs, which has had a long standing in the international scene. Heroin is produced in large scale in Afghan, while cocaine production is widespread in South America. The paper is a comparison and contrast of the Afghan heroin trade and South American cocaine trade.

Over the past three decades, the US has spent more than a trillion dollars to curtail drug industry operations in Latin America. During 1980s, Peru, Bolivia and Columbia used to contribute 65%, 25% and 10% toward the overall coca production globally. Since then, due to many US funded war efforts on drugs in these neighboring Andean countries, drug industry in Columbia got a tremendous boost, increasing its market share to 90% and making it the world’s largest cocaine producer ever by 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, US invested close to $7.3bn on military and economic aid to eradicate coca production and cocaine trafficking. The project

Drug use around the world is very common. According to Drug Trafficking, “The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that 208 million people worldwide use drugs annually on at least one occasion.” Illegal drug trafficking is an increasing issue around the world that many people are not aware of. This issue causes problems to people everywhere, whether they are involved with drugs or not.

Over the course of the last decade, there has been an exponential growth in illicit trafficking of drugs affects all aspects of life. Brazil is a direct victim of this trafficking as its homicide rate of 27.1 per 100,000 inhabitants. This figure is one of the worst in the world, most are largely linked to drug trafficking by organized crime groups. Brazil is conscious of crime groups that control the illegal drug trade are: Primeiro Comando da Capital, Comando Vermelho, and Amigos dos Amigos. Due to the geographic location of Brazil, it is a pinnacle transit zone for drugs to be smuggled into Europe and Africa. The predominant drug trafficking in Brazil is cocaine coming from Bolivia, Peru and Columbia who wish to reach the transit zone in Brazil. This has a direct correlation in trends in drug use, trafficking and illicit markets in the country.

The global policy on drugs has one main concern, as maintained in the first clause of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs: promoting the health and welfare of mankind (United Nations, 1961). The convention and global drug policy actors have asserted through the years that drugs pose a threat to this concern, and so an integrated effort to reduce supply, demand and trafficking of said narcotics is the desired course of action (High Level segment Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 2009). It seems that this course of action became an end of itself instead of a mean to an end of health and welfare, as mounting evidence shows that the actions taken to achieve this have not only been ineffective in reducing supply, demand and trafficking; they have also created severe violations of human rights, alongside criminalization, a hazard to public health, and drug cartels which pose a very real threat to peace and security.

Drug prohibition spawn black market corruption whilst damaging overall public health by exposing them to a variety of drugs. Drug market participants are forced to conduct business illegally, thus resorting to bribery and extortion of various high ranking public officials. According to (Steel, Alan, 2006), a negative spinoff from drug prohibition is the creation of an international black market ‘worth over $100 billion a year’. The black market is aided by ‘corruption of governments such as Columbia’ and Brazil(source) who are dominated by drug gangs and organised crime. However, the biggest effect the black market has on the public is that the government has no control over the purity of drugs and unregulated drugs can have dire effects. Users of low impact drugs like cannabis are forced

The problem of drugs is considered one of the most challenging issues for the American society. It is required from the federal government and law enforcement agencies to take effective measures in order to win in the war on drugs. However, the drug trade is one of the most profitable markets in modern world, and a wide range of stakeholders receives multiple benefits from this business. Moreover, it is a common opinion that many authoritative persons in the USA are also connected in some way with the market of illicit drugs and there is no sense for them to struggle with drug dealers as they have their share in this business. Many movies and books describe the seriousness of the drug problem in the USA. For this reason, it can be useful to analyze one movie (Super Fly) and one book (Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America) dedicated to the topic of the drug trade and discuss the major aspects of these works in order to better understand the problem of drugs and corruption in the USA.