Two hundred and fifty miles south of Medellin, Colombia is where the infamous Cali Cartel derived from. Cali is the third largest city in Colombia, in which compromises 1.5 million people. In the early 1970s, the brothers Gilberto Rodriquez Orejuela and Miguel along with long time associate Jose Santacruz Londono established the Cali Cartel. Prior to becoming one of the prime international cocaine distributors, they started off from a small Cali criminal gang known as the “Los Chemas.” At first, "Los Chemas" limited itself to counterfeiting and kidnapping, but gradually expanded into the smuggling of cocaine base from Peru and Bolivia to Colombia for conversion into cocaine hydrochloride (U.S Department of Justice, 1994).” According to Abadinsky …show more content…
They eventually would form the PEPES, or People Against Pablo Escobar, which specifically targeted Escobar's residences, corporations and lieutenants. The Cali cartel also began covertly supplying the Colombian police and the DEA with information about Pablo Escobar's actions and whereabouts. Escobar was later found and killed in 1993. Therefore, this led the Cali Cartel to distribute more than 80% of cocaine into the United States and Europe without their rivals intervening. Although Medellin was more known for their brutality and violence, the Cali Cartel was known for their bribery and businesslike manner. The brothers owned banks, supermarkets, soccer team and numerous drugstores that would eventually be used to import cocaine precursor chemicals. They also invested most of their profit into politicians who would then provide them protection from the government. Joseph Treaster from the New York Times implied that once Colombia officials finish diminishing the Medellin Cartel, the Cali Cartel will then follow. Due to their business attitude, a lot of the pressure was never upon them and merely on the Medellin Cartel due to their violent acts. This allowed the Cali Cartel to earn more wealth and gain respectable reputations. Many miles away, Elmhurst New York is known as Little Colombia where the Cali Cartel headquarters operated as
In the Ted talk called, The Deadly Genius of Drug Cartels, with the speaker Rodrigo Canales, he talks about the following; the violence of the drug cartels, the financial businesses of the drug cartels, and how they're successful with the U.S is involved. First, in the Ted Talk, Rodrigo Canales speaks about the violence of Mexico from the past six years which is caused by the drug dealers. The violence is caused by the drug dealers because it's key to them to have good brand management and having a strong group organization, therefore causing them to be violent. Also, the amount of violence in Mexico was caused by the drug dealers causing 100,000 innocent casualties, which is more deaths than the Iraq war. Next, in this Ted Talk, the speaker Rodrigo Canales explains the financial businesses of the drug cartels and how they're successful and how the U.S is involved with the drug cartels to make the cartels financially stable.
Recent arrests and the diminished opportunity to forward cocaine to U.S had left them with the necessity to embark in kidnappings, auto thefts, extortion, murders for hire, human smuggling, and other felonies not to mention that local demand for narcotics had increased recently. The Tijuana Cartel operations extents from the U.S Mexico border across Central America through the Pacific Route and receives support of one of most violent criminal organizations: Los
Niche theory is a very important concept in Ecology. However, the exact meaning of the concept has changed throughout the years. Joseph Grinnell introduced the idea of niche theory in his paper “The Niche-Relationships of the California Thrasher”. His idea was that a species is restricted to its niche because of the habitat it lives in and its behavioral patterns. In Grinnell’s paper, the California Thrasher stays within the chaparral habitat of California. He continues to say that the California Thrasher is restricted by humidity and temperature, but that is probably due to the fact that this is the best environment for the chaparral bushes. The California Thrasher is described as a “shy bird” so it uses the cover
The drug dealing process went from distributors, who were the Colombians; the supplier who was Max; and the dealers who were all of the other drug dealers that helped with the cocaine industry. The drug dealers were situated in Washington Heights, which was an area known as the “hot spot” for the war on drugs. The crew learned how to make quick money, and ways to get the most out of their money. This is a reason why the kids went from trying the cocaine out before the purchase to it being prepackaged. The members resorted to this lifestyle hoping to have a better life for themselves and their
Some teenagers are part of drug cartels because of poverty. With this current issue, teenagers are being killed and arrested every day for smuggling drugs and weapons across the border in the United States. Drug cartels started in 1980 led by Federal Police agent Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo also known as “The Godfather”. Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo increased his power by affiliating with the Colombian cartels in the 1980s, he hid out in his hometown with his family as his partners in crime however, his family was arrested for murdering
A drug cartel is a combination of drug manufacturing and drug transportation organizations under one person’s leadership. While there is numerous drug cartels around the world the Mexican cartels have arguably more power than most in regards to territory and membership. This power has allowed them to have main control in not only Mexico but in the United States as well making them a key player in the drug trade. In 2006, the Mexican government challenged multiple drug cartels such as the Sinaloa cartel, The Los Zetas, and the Gulf cartel, beginning the Mexican Drug War. This war has gone on for the past ten years and is still continuing today, causing the death of 10,000 people a year on average. The Mexican Drug War is having a negative impact
It was a time of civil war between the Columbian Conservative Party and the Columbian Liberal Party. However, vast numbers of people were killed on his command. His particular way of handling any authorities questioning his actions was to bribe them or to kill them, or ‘plata o plomo’, Colombian slang for ‘money or bullets’. Escobar was believed to have had Medellin drug lord Fabio Restrepo murdered in 1975, in order to take over full leadership of the Medellin Cartel.
The Influence of the Mexican Cartels in the United States Visiting a tourist attraction in Mexico, tourists do not realize the gruesome reality that Mexican civilians face on an everyday basis. Dead bodies cover the streets, the echo of gun shots ring through the streets daily, and seeing the cartels terrorize businesses. The rise of Mexico’s violence in the past decade has marked the country and made its way to the United States. The United States has ignored the problem for many years, since they always referenced Mexico’s drug crisis as a non-emergent issue. In the past decade the U.S. government has seen an increase in violence and consumption of illegal drugs due to the Mexican cartels.
The cartels are now in control of most of the drug trades and are successful. The Mexican border gives them the power to go everywhere they desire, making them a relentless force. “To date operation Xcellrator has led the arrest of 755 individuals and the seizure of approximately 5 U.S. Currency more than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine, more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana, more than 11,000 of methamphetamine, more than 8 kilograms of heroin, approximately 1.3 million pills of ecstasy”(Doj 2). Mexican cartels extend to central and southern America. Columbia is the supply of much of the cocaine exported to the U.S. Colombia is under control of South American gangs, they do business with the Mexican cartels to transport drugs the north. The Northern Mexican gangs hold the most control because the territory is very important (Wagner1). They are many different types of cartel in Mexico it also signifies that there are killing each other so their cartel can expand an...
The Mexican drug-trafficking cartels are said to have been established in the 1980s by a man named Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. With the help of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel started the Guadalajara Cartel, which is one of the first to have thrived from association with the Colombian cocaine trade. The two men who helped Miguel Gallardo establish the cartel were arrested, so Gallardo, the single leader of the cartel “was smart enough to privatize the Mexican drug trade by having it run by lesser-known bosses” (The Five Most Famous Drug Cartels”), that he often met with in Acapulco. Eventually Miguel was arrested as well which caused the split of the Guadalajara Cartel into the Sinaloa Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel.
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...
In 1993 El Chapo was arrested and was believed to have escaped in a laundry truck in 2001. Sinaloa has become the largest drug trafficking organization in Mexico. El Chapo’s supplies eighty percent of the drugs entering the U.S, mostly from Chicago. People say that El Chapo is controlling Sinaloa’s drug operations from hiding somewhere in the mountains of Durango. He didn’t have much education, he ended school in third grade and worked until the 1980’s when he joined the Guadalajara cartel.... ...
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Colombia has quite a distinct history compared to the rest of the Latin American countries. Colombia has been struck with violence throughout its history. There are many actors playing a part in producing violence, including the government itself. Furthermore, there are several causes of violence in Colombia, it is not only because of drugs Violence rages all the way from President Gaitan’s death to the ongoing war with drug dealers all over Colombia.
Sub Point 1: Tessa Vinson explains the origins of The Cartel in the Spring 2009 issue of The Monitor. Chinese immigrants working on the railroads brought with them the knowledge of how to grow poppy. Poppy is a plant which contains opium which is a source for many other drugs. As the need for poppy grew in demand Sinaloens began to export it through the Pacific Railroad into the United States. The United States and Mexico became increasingly aware of this and launched "Operation Condor" on November 1975, which eliminated most poppy fields aerially. This forced many small cartels to go out of business but also eliminated competition for the more established cartels. With the supply of poppy gone most cartels shifted their attention toward Columbian cocaine. In the mid-1970s Drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo who was in charge of powerful Guadalajara cartel began to export cocaine, he became known as "El Padrino" as he eventually controlled almost all of the drug market. (Vinson, 2009, pp.