Bolivia: A Hub for Criminal Disaster due to Underdevelopment

Subsequently, all of these factors working together makes Bolivia a hub for criminal disaster. It is evident that in the case of Bolivia, the main reason why it has made such strides in becoming one of the front runners of the drug trade in Latin American is because of how under developed it is. This lack of development in the social and political structures makes it easily susceptible to individuals with low moral compasses, Individuals in positions of power fall victim to corruption and bribery because they have no stander of proper law to look to in terms of moral and strength. Bolivia's current state would prove that it is difficult to establish and maintain a justice system in a state where this sort of government and social structure

Despite the question of which country is doing the producing or distributing, the issues that the respective nations face remains the same. The drug trade turns nations into war battle grounds for opposing cartels and smaller gang factions, it provides no positive and optimistic future for the youth who are plagued by the violence and crime every day of their lives. The drug trade provides yet another issue for governments who are trying to combat issues such as debt and poverty. Here we have a multibillion dollar industry primarily in many countries that could be categorized as being part of the “third world,” the whole notion is a paradox. This leads one to the question of what can and should be done. Do the leaders of Latin American nations continue to combat an industry that arguably hold more power than they do or do these governments use this lucrative industry to their benefit in hopes of regulating it in such a way that it could then support the economy and bring the state out of poverty and debt, raising the GDP in an somewhat unconventional way. Essentially, the drug trade wouldn’t exists nor would it be so successful if there was no need for illegal substances and abuse of them. It’s hard to compare the variations of involvement from country to country because they are all suffering from the same injustice. One might find that if the approach that is currently sprouting in the United States, where the decriminalization of marijuana is becoming more widespread, was used in these in these Latin American counties, if this would still be such an issue, “Some Latin American analysts anticipated that the possible passage of California’s Proposition 19 in November 2010 – which sought to legalize the cultivation, distribution, and possession of marijuana in the state – would signal the