Colombian Organized Crime

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Colombia has been a supply of illegal for many countries. Mexico and United States being their two most important buyers. With Mexico being their distributor into United States, Colombia supplies the illegal drug use United States demands. In this paper, the treat of Colombian organized crime to United States will be analyzed. Authors Lyman and Potter (2014) mention in the text, during the mid-1970s Colombian drug cartels surfaced. It became apparent that United States had connections with Colombia; Colombia was controlling the actual smuggling of cocaine into the United States. The first cartel identified was the Medellin Cartel, which dominated the cocaine trade in New York and Miami. Making it the largest Colombian trafficking syndicate operating in the United States. Colombia used Mexico as their distributor to United States. Colombia payed Mexican cartels to use their own transportation methods to cross cocaine into United States. After cost …show more content…

The information I provided about the Colombian groups are focused more in the late 70’s. During this era, violence in the U.S. sky rocketed due to drugs arriving into U.S. land and members of Colombian groups coming into U.S. Ultimately, Colombian organized crime groups did pose a threat to U.S. many years ago. Other countries like Peru, Mexico, etc. pose the same threat to U.S. currently because they are supplying our country with illegal drugs. Essentially, traditional organized crime groups pose a greater threat to U.S. today. Because they are the ones who are committing crimes, causing violence, drug sales, robberies, kidnappings, and other jobs street gangs do. Although, drugs are still being supplied by other countries and crossing them through U.S. borders. Traditional organized crime groups are in charge of distribution, which causes violence, increase crime rates, and other criminal

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