El Narcotráfico
Antes de Pinochet la mayoría de la produción de la cocaína
estaba en los Andes de Chile donde es posible cultivar la coca.
Después de Pinochet decidió no permitir la produción de la droga
en Chile, la industria se mudó al otro lado de la frontera con
Columbia. Con este cambio empezó la transformación de la
industria y de un pais. Hoy, por causa de la Guerra Contra la
Droga, es Columbia uno de los paises más violentos del mundo.
Columbia no era el pais menos violento de Latinoamérica
antes, pero después de la industria llegó la situación há
empeorado cada año con poca fluctuación. Cada año hay más de
77.5 homicidios por cada 100,000 habitantes en Columbia, y en
Medellín, una de las ciudades mas grandes, 249 por cada 100,000.
Solamente pocos paises en guerra son peores.
El narcotráfico no era tan violento en Chile. ¿Entonces,
por qué es como así en Columbia? La respuesta no es que los
chileños son menos violentos. Chile había tenido una historia
mas tranquilla que la mayoria de Latino América, pero la
diferencia mas importante es con los Estados Unidos y su
tratamiento del problema durante las dos epocas, la de los
setenta cuando la industria era en Chile, y la de los ochenta y
los noventa cuando la industria era en Columbia.
Durante los ochenta cocaína era muy popular en los EEUU y el
gobierno decidió combatir el narcotráfico más que antes. (Lo que
no sabía el gobierno era que la CIA ya había tenido un papel en
la industria con otras intenciónes, pero eso es otro trabajo.)
Empezó la Guerra Contra la Droga. “The War on Drugs.” Los
cárteles ya habían asegurado sus posiciónes en la sociedad de
Columbia. El narcotráfico era ilegal, pero aceptado. Los juezes
no aceptaron casos contra los cárteles, y los cárteles no
asesinaron a los juezes.
Con los EEUU llegó tambien dinero. Los EEUU gastaba más
dinero en Columbia para combatir el narcotráfico que gastaba
contra la adicción de sus propios ciudadanos. Este tercer aspeto
de la situación, la influencia de los EEUU, transformó las
relaciones entre la systema de justicia en Columbia y el gobierno
en general, y el narcotráfico, ya una gran parte de la economia.
Una parte de la economia la qué necesitaba la gente.
Las acciones de los EEUU agravó la situación y resultó en
más violencia. La industria de cocaína existe hoy en Bolivia,
Peru, y México tambien, donde los gobiernos prestan menos
Human Trafficking in Mexico Slavery has occurred for the past hundreds of years, it’s still occurring in the 21st century. The name that people have for slavery in modern day is human trafficking; it is one of the top crimes in Mexico. Not only are the people that are being trafficked victims, the families of these people will never see each other again. Trafficking in Mexico has become popular with the drug cartels and they are starting to rely on trafficking as their main source of income, such as the Zetas. These problems have caused pain for many in Mexico and even in the U.S. because of the shared border and some U.S. citizens have lost some of their loved ones because of the trafficking, this is the reason that the U.S. should get involved and help Mexico.
First to start out, we should get some facts straight. A conquistador is basically a Spanish conqueror. Their main goals were to search for gold and other riches from the Caribbean and draw them back to the mainland. The absolute most important conquistador in all of history is Hernan Cortes.
In the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Don Quixote takes on many exploits and is often broken and beaten along the way. Whether he is fighting with imaginary giants or the knight of the White Moon, Don Quixote ends up defeated. In City Lights Chaplin’s tramp endeavors to make money in order to help the blind girl. After being fired from his recent job as a street cleaner, the tramp enters into a boxing contest for 50% of the winnings. However, things do not go as planned and the tramp finds himself in a predicament. Still, and similar to Don Quixote’s boldness, the tramp believes there is an actual chance that he could win the match. Instead, he finds himself knocked out and no closer to his goal of helping the blind girl.
The Canadian Justice system is run like a well-oiled machine. It is based on the fair and humane treatment of suspects who remain innocent until proven guilty. There is one big question that has been debated since July 14th, 1976 - should the death penalty have been abolished in Canada? The new younger generation of Canadians seems to agree with me that the death penalty should be resurrected in Canada.
Ray Bradbury’s love for fantasy encouraged him to become a writer and to publish many books. Fahrenheit 451 is one of the many books that Bradbury published. This distopic, futuristic novel is based when color TV was hot. The Cold War was in play as well so, mix up Cold War with color TV and you get the scenery for Fahrenheit 451. You’ll get the fear that the government will step up and control anybody’s personal things that they do every day. What I’ll be talking about is my perspective of how good or bad this book came out to be.
Mexico has a long history of cartels the deaths, drugs and weapon trafficking is in all time high increasing year by year. “Mexico's gangs have flourished since the late 19th century, mostly in the north due to their proximity to towns along the U.S.-Mexico border. But it was the American appetite for cocaine in the 1970s that gave Mexican drug cartels immense power to manufacture and transport drugs across the border. Early Mexican gangs were primarily situated in border towns where prostitution, drug use, bootlegging and extortion flourished” (Wagner). They keep themselves armed and ready with gun supplies shipped from the U.S, taking control of the drug trades. The violence is spilling so out of control that they overthrew the Mexican government.
In conclusion, I believe that capital punishment should never be reinstated in Canada. It is a cruel and unjust punishment, where it violates the rights of life and makes amend within the world and may lead to an innocent person executed with the suspect untouched. Also, why ruin a good thing where Canada’s murder/violent crime rate is slowly decreasing within the years because of the abolishment of the death sentence? With the reasons stated above, as well with the fact that the cost of capital punishment is higher and that it is rejected and shunned upon within many religions such as Catholic and Protestant, I think that capital punishment is something that should never even be considered to be reinstated as it is unnecessary and unjust.
Since the publication of his first novel, Americana (1971), Don DeLillo (b. 1936) has been recognized as among the most important writers of his generation. Don Delillo demonstrates the theme of a corrupt society through his assessment of isolation, the quest of discovering self- image, and the drive toward creating a sense of doomsday.
Alfredo Corchado — is the author of the book named " Midnight in Mexico:A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness”. We are, probably, all interested in finding out the facts, news, and gossips about Mexico. This country was always associated with something mysterious. For me personally, the title of the book seemed to be very gripping, I was interested in revealing the secrets of life in Mexico, thus I decided to read this book. I was really curious, what can Alfredo Corchado tell me about the life in this country, the country, where the constant massacre is the picture, people used to see. In his book, the author tells the reader about the real situations, which took place in Mexico, reveals the secrets of the people’s lives and tells the story from the “inside”. He describes the way he lives his life, and does his work. The " Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness” is a memoir. Author tries to transform his own experience into the story line. Corchado shows the reader the darkest episodes of Mexican society, while relying on his own experience.
Julio Cortázar is a famous novelist from Argentina. He was born August 26, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium and died February 12, 1984 at the age of 70 years young. Otherness is the foundation of translation in almost every sense of the word. The translator must become the author's other, his Doppelganger, what Julio Cortázar called his paredros, using a Greek term for an old Egyptian concept of otherness. At the same time the translator must turn the author into another possibility of his own existence. The writer stays himself but is now writing in another language and therefore at least partially in another culture. Also, there will be more than one translation of a classic, meaning that even in its otherness the classic has other possibilities. Mandelbaum, Singleton, Sayers, and Ciardi are all partially Dante in that they are his others, yet they are not clones, not even identical twins, and usually not even close enough to be fraternal ones. Theirs is anotherness within the same language, different variations on the same theme as it were.
For example, items on the road, stalled vehicles and unexpected traffic. By not giving driving the full attention that it requires, people often get in accidents or end up dying. Overall, texting and driving should stop.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN REGION LATIN AMERICA In spite of legal abolition, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking have been quite widespread in Latin America. Since the middle of the 1990’s,social activists, policymakers and scholars of Latin America, have begun to establish a body of literature previously unseen on the topic. Even though the study and scholarly interventions have been existing for almost two decades now, the subjects has occupied a very marginal place in North American literature. North America focuses more on slavery and trafficking of undocumented immigrant workers, and sexual exploitation of women and children.
Students who make the transition from high school into college have difficulty adjusting because many are not used to being on their own nor their new environment. Entering college, you come to understand that it is not the same as high school. There are crucial differences like the level of academic responsibilities, time management and scheduling, as well as the method of learning. College and high school are different in many ways but they both ultimately share the same goal in teaching students to learn.
Now that you know how texting and driving is affecting our nation, let’s talk about different ways to prevent it from causing deaths.
As a secondary subject, society often views mathematics a critical subject for students to learn in order to be successful. Often times, mathematics serves as a gatekeeper for higher learning and certain specific careers. Since the times of Plato, “mathematics was virtually the first thing everyone has to learn…common to all arts, science, and forms of thought” (Stinson, 2004). Plato argued that all students should learn arithmetic; the advanced mathematics was reserved for those that would serve as the “philosopher guardians” of the city (Stinson, 2004). By the 1900s in the United States, mathematics found itself as a cornerstone of curriculum for students. National reports throughout the 20th Century solidified the importance of mathematics in the success of our nation and its students (Stinson, 2004). As a mathematics teacher, my role to educate all students in mathematics is an important one. My personal philosophy of mathematics education – including the optimal learning environment and best practices teaching strategies – motivates my teaching strategies in my personal classroom.