The Dope Game The CIA wanted to use drug trafficking because there was good money in the process, and put an end to it at the same time, when there was lots of cash, the story turned around, the CIA tried to keep it a secret and that it would be a good idea, well they were wrong, the whole conspiracy was dead, the CIA wanted currency by selling drugs, it was an easy way to make some dirty cash, they knew it was a bad decision, this theory that they had done, karma came back and got the CIA, this conspiracy ended up taking lives away from families, the CIA had others distress because there plans weren’t all that. The CIA did not inform congress of all allegations or information it received indicating that contra related organizations or individuals …show more content…
If you get caught with narcotics, your sentencing depends on the amount you are caught with, for example, crack cocaine is five years, for five grams. Powder cocaine is five years for five hundred grams, heroin is five years for one hundred grams, methamphetamine is five years for ten grams, PCP is five years for ten grams, this is not what high level drug traffickers are involved in. most drug cases involve low level offenders. It all depends on the amount you have on you, while you get caught with the controlled substance. There was a mandatory minimum sentences were criticized by the U.S. sentencing commission as early as 1991. In the report they found that all defense lawyers, and nearly half of the prosecutors, they all seemed to have a problem with mandatory minimum sentences. They would try there hardest to get away from the mandatory minimum …show more content…
He was born on December 1, 1949, in Columbia. As a young boy, he told friends and family that he wanted to be the president of Columbia, and take over. Yet as he saw it, his path to wealth and legitimacy lay in crime. He started young as a petty street thief, stealing cars before moving into the drug business. He used to smuggle cigarettes. Escobar moved fast to take control of the cocaine trade. Escobar was deep into the cocaine trade, if someone that was working for Escobar wasn’t doing their job right, he would have orders to kill that person. Well his fame grew Escobar didn’t follow his dream to be seen as a leader. If you messed with Pablo Escobar he was going to kill you, or your family. Then he would blow up your house. Escobar tried to convince the Colombian politics to have a no extradition, so he could run for president. Pablo Escobar wished to be president of Columbia to have even greater influence and power. People called Escobar a Narco, In Spanish, the term "narco" is an abbreviation of the word "narcotraficante" (drug trafficker). Before this usage, in the United States, the term "narc" (or "narco") referred to a specialist officer of a narcotics police force, such as a DEA agent
The book is split up into two parts being the escape of Pablo and his death.The first part starts off with Morris Busby, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, receiving a phone call from President Gaviria of Colombia telling him that Pablo Escobar had escaped his prison at La Catedral. Somehow, Pablo had managed to escape his prison after several Colombian Military platoons had been sent in order to capture him and send him to another prison where he would not be able to live so leisurely. At La Catedral he would enjoy hookers, drugs, and even the most expensive technology money could buy. It was a prison run by guards who he payed and the inmates were Pablo and his most trusted assassins or Sicarios. If Pablo could pay off his prison guards and was at one point on Forbes Top 10 richest men in the world then he could bribe even the army. Pablo was able to escape after one of the military platoons had let him slip away deliberately. He had been able to get his way either through bribing the captain in charge or threatening to kill
This documentary highlighted the devastating consequences that these mandatory minimum sentencing’s can have on people such as in the case of Kemba Smith and Johnny Patillo, two first time offenders who were charged under the mandatory minimum sentencing’s. Johnny Patillo sentenced to serve 10 years and Kemba Smith sentenced to serve 24.5 years, these individuals were no different than your average citizen who got caught in the fire of these barbaric laws and individuals like these two are used as a deterant to send a message to the public in their efforts to take control of the war on drugs..
...f the covert operations at the time, created friction among policymakers and agency representatives that transpire into inefficient oversight mechanisms from the U.S. government specifically the Congress.
The CIA’s 50-year history of smuggling drugs into America is generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Like Pontius Pilate, CIA washes their hands of the human tragedies and the corruption of government offices. They do this by remaining and by refusing to recognize the evidence, supporting corruption. For the past 50 years, the CIA has abused its power by deliberately drugging and corrupting America; and therefore should be prosecuted.
He was a businessman during the 80’s that was born in Medellin, Colombia. By the time he was 30 he would become the richest person in the world for 7 consecutive years, according to Forbes magazine. He would attain his success through the business of smuggling drugs and other merchandises, but mostly drugs which were on high demand at that time in Colombia and in the United States. As agent Murphy narrated in the show Narcos: “Its supply created its own demand”( Narcos). Meaning that Pablo did not settle he was very ambitious, and the money he received from making these deals was put into getting more product and therefore more profit.
Mandatory minimums for controlled substances were first implemented in the 1980s as a countermeasure for the hysteria that surrounded drugs in the era (“A Brief History,” 2014). The common belief was that stiff penalties discouraged people from using drugs and enhanced public safety (“A Brief History,” 2014). That theory, however, was proven false and rather than less illegal drug activity, there are simply more people incarcerated. Studies show that over half of federal prisoners currently incarcerated are there on drug charges, a 116 percent percentage rise since 1970 (Miles, 2014). Mass incarceration is an ever growing issue in the United States and is the result of policies that support the large scale use of imprisonment on
The majority of prisoners incarcerated in America are non-violent offenders. This is due mainly to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which is a method of prosecution that gives offenders a set amount of prison time for a crime they commit if it falls under one of these laws, regardless of their individual case analysis. These laws began in the 1980s, when the use of illegal drugs was hitting an all time high (Conyers 379). The United States began enacting legislature that called for minimum sentencing in an effort to combat this “war on drugs.” Many of these laws give long sentences to first time offenders (Conyers). The “three strikes” law states that people convicted of drug crimes on three separate occasions can face life in prison. These laws were passed for political gain, as the American public was swept into the belief that the laws would do nothing other than help end the rampant drug crimes in the country. The laws are still in effect today, and have not succeeded to discourage people from using drugs. Almost fifty percent...
Born on December 17, 1956 in Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico was Carrillo Fuentes. Carrillo was a member of the “Juarez Cartel” Quickly emerging into the head leader of it after killing his boss “Rafael Aguilar” in 1993. this event led him into the throne and he was able to do many things. As one
We once again hear problems with governmental agency overly using their power and taking away rights of citizens unjustly. With these problems comes societies weary eye over the government, should society trust them or fear them. With internal problems also come international problems. Oil runs the world and the United States can’t have small oil producing countries have to much power over them. However if these countries wanted they could slow the world down and create huge problems. This is what happened in the nineteen seventies, when a few of the OPEC countries decided that they wanted more money. This caused many problems in the United States and other countries; here in the US the auto industry had to change their thinking on car and engine size. With the CIA committing illegal acts against the public and OPEC raising the price for oil, the United States had many problems to face at this time. The government caused these to happen, they allowed the CIA to go on unchecked in their performance and activities.
...that had helped the United States to be one of the greatest counties that it is today. Within the agency, there was no communications where they kept information from each other. The CIA agency had no idea what they were doing in regards to central intelligence and they were compromised where the enemies knew about the attack before the attack was fully implemented. These examples prove that some leaders had some positive outcomes for the United States, but the agency from within could not stay united as well as keeping communications about what was going on in the world. I agree with Tim Weiner’s thesis that the United States is one of the greatest countries in the world, but we cannot seem to create a great and efficient spy service to benefit the United States.
To begin, Mandatory minimum sentences result in prison overcrowding, and based on several studies, it does not alleviate crime, for example crimes such as shoplifting or solicitation. These sentencing guidelines do not allow a judge to take into consideration the first time offender, differentiate the deviance level of the offender, and it does not allow for the judge to alter a punishment or judgment to each individual case. When mandatory sentencing came into effect, the drug lords they were trying to stop are not the ones being affected by the sentences. It is the nonviolent, low-level drug users who are overcrowding the prisons as a result of these sentences. Both the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Department of Justice have determined that mandatory sentencing is not an effective way to deter crime. Studies show that mandatory minimums have gone downhill due to racial a...
Mandatory minimum sentencing is the practice of requiring a predetermined prison sentence for certain crimes. The most notable mandatory minimums are the ones implemented in the 70’s and 80’s, hoping to combat the rising drug problem. Mandatory minimum sentencing has existed in the United States nearly since its very birth, with the first mandatory minimums being put into place around 1790. Recently, as the marijuana laws of many states have scaled back in severity, the issue of mandatory minimums has caused controversy in the US. There are two distinct sides to the argument surrounding mandatory minimum sentencing.
The National Security Act of 1947 created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). President Truman’s vision of the CIA was a peacetime intelligence agency that provided early warnings in the event of an attack. After President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, a loophole was found. The National Security Act “instructed the CIA to correlate, evaluate, and disseminate intelligence and to perform ‘other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security’ ” (Weiner 2007). The CIA used this wording of ‘other functions’ to conduct secret operations overseas and to practice cloak and dagger methods in obtaining intelligence. Since its establishment over sixty years ago, the CIA’s implementation of cloak and dagger intelligence gathering has evolved to developing a componen...
The first reason, why the U.S imprisonment rates are too high, because of harsher drug-related crime sentences. In the early 1980's, lots of cocaine was shipped to the U.S. What happened, is that drug dealers extracted a powder from the leaves of the Coca plant, and turned it into a smoke-able powder. This resulted into a massive “Crack Epidemic” which led to the crackdown of drug traffickers. This also led to harsher drug-related crime sentences. What the U.S should do, is to lower the sentencing standards for drug related crimes. Still, drug-related crime offenders still need ti be sentenced. The U.S should lower the maximum sentence for drug-related crimes, because according to www.drugwarfacts.org, “On Dec. 31, 2012, there were 196,574 sentenced prisoners under federal jurisdiction. Of these 99,426 were serving time for drug offenses.” That means that half the people in prison in 2012, were there because of drug offenses, and a good way to make that number lower is to lower the maximum sentence for drug-related crimes. That is the first reason why the U.S imprisonment is too high.
Mandatory minimums, harsh prison sentences imposed on offenders by law, where discretion is limited. Offenders, most of the time nonviolent, are faced with prison terms that are meant for a drug kingpin, not a low level first or second time offender. Mandatory minimums have been proven not to be the answer in our criminal justice system and need to be changed. Mandatory Minimums has created a problem within our society where we send everyone to prison and don 't present offenders with better opportunities. We have turned into a society focused on retribution and deterrence, and have forgotten about rehabilitation.