La Catedral was nothing compared to a jail, it was more like a luxury mansion, but what less could be expected from the biggest drug lord in history. According to Sean Cunningham Escobar had negotiated with the government, so that he would live as a free man within the jail boundaries, Pablo Escobar prohibited the Colombian National Police to be near his luxury prison within a 12-mile radius. “Indeed, Escobar carefully planned virtually every aspect of the prison…insisting on a lush mountainside location to allow him a great view-particularly of potential attackers. Thanks to the fog surrounding it and the location’s steep topography, it made air assaults difficult if not impossible (Cunningham).” Escobar’s power was off the charts. His …show more content…
16 months after being captured by the government of Colombia, Escobar decided to flee the prison he was in when he found out he was going to be transferred to a more secure prison. Escobar once again led the search bloc on a manhunt to bring him down. The price on his head this time was $11 million dead or alive. Steven Ambrus, who reported Pablo’s death for the LA Times declared, “Hundreds of soldiers and police surrounded Escobar's Medellin hide-out, which they had identified through a traced phone call, and killed the drug lord and a bodyguard in a 20-minute shootout when the two tried to escape via the roof.” Escobar had just turned 44 when he was surprised by the Colombian troops. The Colombian Government declared his death as a triumph for the country (Ambrus). Till this day there is no clear evidence of who killed …show more content…
The first theory assures that the Search Bloc killed the biggest Colombian Narco. According to Christopher Woody a journalist for Business Insider, the Search Bloc tracked down Escobar to his hometown of Medellin and located him while he was talking the phone with his son. They then went on and got a visual of the target, which was Pablo. The search bloc proceeded to surround the house where Pablo had just celebrated his 44th birthday. “Members of the Search Bloc surrounded the home while others stormed through the door… Escobar and a bodyguard stumbled out a back window onto an orange-tiled roof. They were met with a hail of gunfire, and both fell from shots to their heads — Escobar with one that entered his right ear and killed him instantly (Woody).” The shot was fatal and killed Escobar instantly. The second theory blames “Los Pepes” or otherwise known as People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar for Escobar’s death. Los Pepes was a group formed by rival traffickers, and others hated by the Medellin Cartel. The Search Bloc and Los Pepes would unite forces to kill the drug lord, and although there is not a lot of evidence, a member of Los Pepes is blamed for his death, but no names have been revealed. The last person to point fingers at is Pablo himself, his son Juan Pablo Escobar has asserted that took his own life in that Medellin rooftop. According to Woody, “Escobar told his son numerous times that he would shoot himself
The arrest of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was a victorious circumstance for the Mexican government, who have been closing down on his presence for the recent past years. Mexican authorities began taking down high ranked members of the Sinaloa Cartel including two of Guzman’s main associates. On February 22, 2014, the world’s most wanted man had also been captured. Although the biggest drug lord has been captured, the crime and violence left behind cannot be forgotten.
Someone, suspected of a crime, is arrested by police. Later on, the suspect goes to court to face their charges. A classic episode of Law & Order. But, where do these suspects go in between the two events. They are held in their local jail of course. While people are familiar with the arrest and courtroom scenes from TV, many are unfamiliar with the jail scene, which becomes home to the suspects who cannot make bail until a court rules a verdict for their case.
...Morelos seemed at a permanent stalemate. Carranza knew that he could never fully take Mexico while Zapata was still alive and in charge of his army. To rid himself of his enemy, Carranza devised a trap. A letter had been intercepted in which Zapata invited a colonel of the Mexican army who had shown leanings toward his cause to meet and join forces. This colonel, Jesús Guajardo, under the threat of being executed as a traitor, pretended to agree to meet Zapata and defect to his side. On Thursday, April 10, 1919, Zapata walked into Carranza's trap as he met with Guajardo in the town of Chinameca. There, at 2:10 PM, Zapata was shot and killed by federal soldiers, and as the man Zapata hit the ground, dead instantly, the legend of Zapata reached its climax. Carranza did not achieve his goal by killing Zapata. On the contrary, in May of 1920, Álvaro Obregón, one of Zapata's right-hand men, entered the capital with a large fighting force of Zapatistas, and after Carranza had fled, formed the seventy-third government in Mexico's history of independence. In this government, the Zapatistas played an important role, especially in the Department of Agriculture. Mexico was finally at peace.
When envisioning a prison, one often conceptualizes a grisly scene of hardened rapists and murderers wandering aimlessly down the darkened halls of Alcatraz, as opposed to a pleasant facility catering to the needs of troubled souls. Prisons have long been a source of punishment for inmates in America and the debate continues as to whether or not an overhaul of the US prison system should occur. Such an overhaul would readjust the focuses of prison to rehabilitation and incarceration of inmates instead of the current focuses of punishment and incarceration. Altering the goal of the entire state and federal prison system for the purpose of rehabilitation is an unrealistic objective, however. Rehabilitation should not be the main purpose of prison because there are outlying factors that negatively affect the success of rehabilitation programs and such programs would be too costly for prisons currently struggling to accommodate additional inmate needs.
The film makers are trying to depict Colombia as a town rather than a country. Despite the landscape views we get from Colombia’s most famous cities and mountains, in Narcos, the audience sees Colombia as a place that is dangerous, has no progress and it is politically unstable. This bothered me for the most part , because again its misrepresentation. Maybe it has to do with the fact that during this era all you heard from Colombia were Narco stories. According to fusion, “It's a helpless, stubborn nation, unwilling and unable to defend itself. This means basically that Colombia is being represented as a small town in a western movie. This can directly correlate with Native Americans because European Americans back in the day viewed Indian Reservations the same as Americans view Colombia, as shithole. The descriptions by Americans to these 2 places are almost
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...
Alcatraz Imagine yourself living in a dirty, smelly, cold prison cell that has water dripping down the walls from the ceiling and hardly ever seeing daylight. If you were a guest at Alcatraz, that is exactly what you would experience. Alcatraz was a Federal Prison located in the San Francisco Bay. It was built on a twelve acre, solid rock island, one mile from the main land. There were no roads or bridges built to get there.
The Sinaloa Cartel was led by Joaquin Guzman who was a most-wanted Mexican drug trafficker worth a billion dollars. Under control of Joaquin, the Sinaloa Cartel became powerful and won the battle against the Juarez Cartel who was a former partner of the group. The battle, caused by want for more routes into the U.S. resulted in 12,000 deaths and led the group to employ gangs such as the Artist Assassins, Genre Nueva, and Los Mexicles to fight against the Juarez Cartel.
Centra Spike was a top secret group of Delta Force members who flew in a plane full of top secret equipment patrolling the skies. They used equipment that would pick up the signals emitted from telephones and would tap into them. After tapping into them, Centra Spike would then be able to pinpoint the location after flying in a triangular path to narrow down the location to an area of just 100 meters. The reason why Centra Spike was employed was because Pablo liked to communicate using telephones in order to operate his drug business. This would mean that Pablo had to restrict his call times and even use code words in order to communicate. Eventually Pablo would become more and more paranoid as the raids continued and he was being pushed into a corner. Pablo had become desperate and had to do something or he would never be able to stay in Medellin. At first he planned to negotiate with the President of Columbia saying that he would get back into Prison with the conditions being that it was in Medellin and that his men would not be extradited to the U.S. where they would be sentenced fairly without Pablo bailing them out. Fortunately, President Gaviria sternly refused his requests, Pablo had done his
Around the time of 1978, a business was developing that would soon be wealthy enough to profit up to 60 million a month (Kelley). Despite its wealth, the Medellin Cartel was not exactly a legal enterprise. It devoted infinite amounts of time, money, and manpower to produce, sell, and distribute drugs throughout vast areas. At the head was Pablo Escobar, who was admired by many inside and outside of the cartel. Countless people were involved in his business, both voluntarily and involuntarily (Kelley). While countless people looked up to him as a hero, Pablo Escobar took vicious measures while running his business, due to his thirst for power and wealth; however, he did not receive a satisfying punishment for the crimes he committed.
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.... ...
The case was against a 31 year old illegal immigrant, Antonio Martinez-Nunez. Martinez-Nunez was the main suspect in a murder case involving Armando Castaneda. Castaneda was found dead in a parked car in Reynoldsburg, Ohio in August 2009. The cause of death was ruled as asphyxiation. In February of 2010, Martinez-Nunez, was arrested by border patrol, while trying to illegally re-enter the country via Texas. Upon his arrest, border patrol was advised that he was a suspect in the above murder case. Before being sent back to Ohio, Martinez-Nunez was questioned via phone by Reynoldsburg police. The questioning was done with the help of a Spanish interpreter. Martinez-Nunez’s statement led to a nine count
These early narcocorridos, spoke more to the hazards of narcotics smuggling which did not always have an optimistic outcome (Madrid 2013, 99). In the mid-1990s, Mark Edberg states that the popularity of the narcocorrido began to grow (Edburg 2004). Moreover, the themes of the narcocorrido began to change, focusing on deadly crimes, shootouts, warnings, and celebration of the Mexican cartels. In 2010, when acts of extreme violence sky-rocketed, Madrid notations narcocorrido bands began aligning themselves with specific cartels. Moreover, the bands became targets themselves. In 2006, a singer Valentin Elizalde was gunned down for performing a narcocorrido glorifying the Sinaloa Cartel in the Gulf Cartel’s territory (Madrid 2013, 100-101).
We stepped off the large tour boat with a look of fright in both our eyes. Some joy was there, but knowing what went on in this place made us feel the way we did. To me, Alcatraz didn't really look like a shut down prison at that moment. It looked more like an old worn down cemetery. The paint on most of the buildings was chipped off all the way down to the wood. Most of the buildings had collapsed down to some cement foundations and old rusted poles hanging every other way. As we walked to the building where you start your tour, that was probably the only building at this place with cleanliness to it. They gave us our tour headphones, which take you through the whole prison with a audio guide telling you how it was in the prison. Not just how it was for the prisoners, but how it was for the guards too.
A. Attention Getter: A man 's face was found stitched on to a soccer ball, his body was found cut into 7 separate pieces in different locations with a single note that read "Happy new year because this will be your last". Headlines liked these are becoming much more common in Mexico, but who 's responsible for gruesome deaths like these? A drug war heavily lead by the Sinaloa Cartel.