Drug trafficking has been a massive concern between the borders of Mexico and the U.S. “since mid 1970s” (Wyler, 1). Drug trafficking is “knowingly being in possession, manufacturing, selling, purchasing, or delivering an illegal, controlled substance” (LaMance, 1). A dynamic relationship exists amongst Columbia, Mexico, and the U.S. the informal drug trafficking economy. This growing informal drug economy leads to many individuals creating a substantial living through this undercover market. These individual drug cartels monopolizing the trafficking market are a growing problem for the U.S economy and need to be located and controlled. If this trafficking continues, the U.S. informal economy will crush the growth of legal industries. The trafficking and abuse of drugs in the U.S. affects nearly all aspects of consumer life. Drug trafficking remains a growing issue and concern to the U.S. government. The U.S. border control must find a way to work with Mexico to overpower the individuals who contribute to the drug trafficking business. This market must be seized and these individuals must be stopped. In Jeanette Schmidt’s article, Transporting Cocaine states, “Colombian cartels would pay the Mexican groups as much as $1,000/kilo to smuggle cocaine into the United States” (Schmidt, 2). The Colombian cartels would then pick up the drugs and resume distribution and sales efforts, making personal profits that are unrecorded. In order to seize these individuals who are growing in power and numbers, the U.S. must control the connections between Mexico and Columbia. Mexico is the biggest transporter amongst Columbia and the U.S. because it shares a border with the U.S. This increasingly poisonous drug trafficking leads to drug dealers... ... middle of paper ... ...demic Search Complete. Web. 29 Apr. 2014. Jenner, Matthew S. "International Drug Trafficking: A Global Problem With A Domestic Solution." Indiana Journal Of Global Legal Studies 18.2 (2011): 901-927. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Apr. 2014. Klenowski, Paul M. "Drug Trafficking." Salem Press Encyclopedia (2013): Research Starters. Web. 26 Apr. 2014. LaMance, Ken. "Drug Trafficking Penalties." Find a Lawyer. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2014. Schmidt, Jeanette. “Drug Trafficking- Transporting Cocaine." Jeanette Schmidt Drug Trafficking- Transporting Cocaine. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2014. Taylor, Jameson. 'Illegal Immigration: Drugs, Gangs And Crime - Civitas Institute'. N. p., 2007. Web. 4 May. 2014. Wyler, Liana, Clare Seelke, and June Beittel. 'Latin America And The Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking And U.S. Counterdrug Programs'. N. p., 2014. Web. 4 May. 2014.
The business process of the Mexican drug cartels is not easy, but is a very simple method. Step one is the drugs are produced in Mexico. Step two is the drugs are smuggled across the boarder. Step three is the drugs are distributed to the drug dealers in the U.S. Step four are the drug dealers sell the drugs and U.S. cash dollars are made. It is a simple four-step method, but the process of the four steps comes with a lot of trouble, risk, and violence.
...ent of all the cocaine consumed in Canada and the United States (Beare 1996: 86). The Colombian cartels control the bulk of the cocaine market through out most of the western world. Enforcement officials are only just begging to understand the extent and the sophistication of the Colombian cartels' criminal activities here in Canada. The links that the Colombians are making with other criminal groups could prove to be very dangerous.
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The crack and cocaine epidemic of the United States has shaped America’s basis on the war against drugs. In the early 1980s, the majority of cocaine began to be shipped to the United States, landing in Miami originally coming through the Bahamas and Dominican Republic (UDOJ)”. The foreign origin from the drug made it easier for dealer to quietly return to the United States with the drug and also its receipt. “Soon there was a huge amount of cocaine powder in these islands, which caused the price to drop by as much as 80 percent (UDJ)”. Thus making it more assessable for shipment to America.
Drug trafficking is a prohibited, global trade that involves the production, the distribution, and the sales of drugs. It is a topic that has become a very large issue all over the world. It also has had a very big effect on many different countries because they often depend on the business that the drug trafficking creates. Since it has become such a problem, there have been many different efforts to put a stop to drug trafficking by different enforcement agencies. A website about drug statistics, drugabuse.net, indicated that the Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA, as it is well known as, makes over thirty thousand arrests each year dealing with the illegal sales or distribution of drugs. It is also believed that Mexico’s economy would shrink by over sixty-three percent if they lost their drug trafficking industry. There are many different tribulations like this that drug trafficking has created. Many people see it as such a vital asset to some countries, so it has emerged as an extremely big business that brings in a boatload of money. Just like any other immense problem, drug trafficking has its causes and effects
a scheme that brought 10 tons of Colombian cocaine into the U.S. via Delta flights from Puerto
The other front of the battle of the “War on Drugs” comes from locating and shutting down the manufacturers of cocaine. Cocaine is manufactured from the coca plant, the drug’s main ingredient. When the government imposes sanctions on different nations for growing the coca plant, careful considerations must be made. Just like any other market, there may be underlying circumstances for growing the plant that are perfectly innocent to the illegal cocaine market.
It’s so Important for Americans to know that the traffic of drugs finances the work of terror, sustaining terrorists, that terrorists use drug profits to fund their cells to commit acts of murder. If you quit drugs you join the fight against terror in America.
Holmes explains that, “The corrosive economic effects of Colombia’s persistently high levels of generalized political violence and the specific consequences of the cocaine trade” (104). The paramilitary seen what kind of money cocaine was bringing in and decided to join the dark side and started using the profit from the drug to run their military forces. Villoria says that, “Over the last twenty-five years this widespread violence has ceased to be a rural phenomenon and has taken on many urban features. This is due to the fact that the war between drug barons, guerrilla, and paramilitary groups and the high levels of unemployment in the countryside have forced people to abandon rural areas in large numbers” (75). Money causes people to become irrational because money buys you another day of life in Colombia. The more money you make means another day you and your family can live. Villoria says, “The culture of drug trafficking has become widely known, both inside and outside of Colombia” (p. 78). Since Colombia is so rich in coca leafs than any other country Colombia is the main supplier to all other countries for cocaine like the United States, Bolivia, and Peru. 90% of the cocaine in America is from Colombia. Colombia has even gone to extremes as building submarines to transport cocaine from one country to another, that being said; Colombia is also a major target for jealousy. Other countries are jealous of Colombia and the drug lords from other countries end up starting a war with each other. To keep the coca leaves in Bogotá safe people in the drug cartel set up land mines all over the mountains to keep others out from taking the coca leafs. Colombia has the most landmine victims in the western hemisphere. The families that lived in Bogata at that time ended up being severely injured by the mines
Since the prohibition of drugs in the early 1900’s, the cartels nearly monopolized the business of smuggling drugs across the border. Unfortunately, drug smuggling is not their only business endeavor. Money laundering, bribery and human trafficking also top the list of involvement. The cartels have quite a bit of control over their own Mexican government. Sadly, they will utilize bribery with police agents in order to cover up a crime. The bribery is not limited to the Mexican government as they often pay a United States guard at checkpoints several thousand dollars just to waive a car through (Couto, 2013). In recent years, the cartels have also added human trafficking and immigrant smuggling to their list of prevailing corruption. The statistics are alarming for kidnappings of young Mexican girls and women being used in sex trafficking rings here in the United States. Sadly, there are currently no laws in Mexico preventing this act; therefore, not much is taking place to prevent this from happening. Immigrant smuggling is also prevalent. Cartels are quite the entrepreneurs when it comes to the different methods of making money. While there are many ways the cartels drive revenue into their pockets, the drug industry is still their strong-hold. Hence, this is likely to remain true without possible solutions from both the Mexican and United
"For the commercial insurgency, border controls are perfunctory in "free trade" areas, and there is still a great demand for goods that are linked to smuggling" (PRISM Issue No 3). President Calderon's term in office has seen numerous arrests and significant cooperation with U.S. law enforcement, and intelligence activities, which has negated the freedom of movement the cartels once enjoyed. It has also prompted them to seek other venues to keep their revenue flowing. The arrests aren't without criticisms. Due to recent arrests of ...
Many people know of cartels and drug trafficking, however, they do not realize how serious of a problem it is becoming. Every day there are hundreds of drugs transported into the United States from Latin America, mostly coming from Mexico and Columbia. These cartels are becoming smarter and more creative with their ways of smuggling drugs. They have become ruthless and will do whatever it takes to get their supplies into the country. To better understand how cartels work, you must understand their ways of transporting drugs and how creative they have become with it. Cartels will go as far as using tunnels, boats, planes, vehicles, donkeys and mules to transport all of their drugs.
The commodity chain for coca/cocaine is vast and complicated. Coca frontiers for illicit export spread massively into the deep jungle of the Huallaga Valley and Bolivia’s Chapare. This is where most coca plants are grown and harvested, and occasionally transformed into coca paste. In the past, most of the raw coca leaves or coca paste was transported to Colombia where well-located entrepreneurs, under a weak state, consolidated as the core middlemen in this trade. Colombians refined coca and marked up the prices of the Bolivian peasant product. In the 1980s, Mexico became a transit point for cocaine heading to the United States and other Western nations for sale by Mexican or Colombian suppliers (Gereffi and Korzeniewicz 1994: 195). However, due to the illicit and clandestine na...
The Columbian cartel was present from 1972-1993. Drugs were smuggled into every country because the cartel paid the Columbian government to be quiet about the drug trade. Coffee is their number one shipment out to other countries. Number 2 is cocaine. The Columbian cartel supplied 84-90% of cocaine to the United States, and 80% globally. There were plenty of drug groups mainly located in America, Canada, and Europe. In 1993 the cartel was investigated and “shut down.”
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