It’s a beautiful Colombian morning. What you are witnessing right now is the formation of the Medellin Cartel. There’s Carlos Lehder, the Ochoa brothers, Jose Rodriguez Gacha and last and certainly not least, Pablo Escobar. They wouldn’t know it, but give ‘em a couple of years and they would become the most violent and ruthless drug organization in the world which would hold significance to Colombia’s history.
There were three aspects in Colombian life in which the Medellin Cartel had a major impact on. The first was the economy. The Medellin Cartel were a drug organization involved in the production and exportation of cocaine. As it turned out, cocaine had become an unbelievably lucrative business for anyone involved. One day, Colombia’s most
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Many Colombian laws were changed because of the effect that the Medellin Cartel had on the government and police. As many people would agree, the most crucial law that Colombia introduced was extradition. With America’s aid, Colombia would send anyone caught drug trafficking to their country, where they would remain behind bars. Extradition was the one thing the Medellin Cartel truly feared. They would do anything to avoid this sentence. And this was where it started, one of the darkest times that modern Earth had ever faced. The beginning of the War on Drugs. The hoped result of the War on Drugs was to reduce the illegal drug trade. Even though the War on Drugs had started in the 70s, the term had been reignited thanks to none other than the Medellin Cartel’s cocaine trade hitting home. Speaking of the Cartel, these men had also affected the relations of Colombia and America. Cocaine continued to skyrocket in popularity in America, which gained the attention of none other than Ronald …show more content…
With them, came more advanced technology which would aid the Search Bloc (Colombia’s incorruptible task force) in the war on drugs. During this time relations between Colombia and America grew immensely. The Cartel and cocaine had a major impact on America. They had been largely responsible for (excuse the pun here) an overdose of cocaine users in the 1980s. Around 5.5 million people were using cocaine which the American government definitely did not want. I had mentioned that the cocaine outbreak had managed to kill people. A lot of those deaths were from overdoses, on the other hand, there were a number of people killed basically due to cocaine deals that went south. In the early stages of the entry of cocaine in America, a lot of the dealers were the Cartel’s workers, having come over by flight and selling their product on the street. Of course, America did not want that happening in their star-spangled
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduria General de la Republica, PGR) had issued information related to the conformation of the seven principal drug cartels present at Mexico:
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
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.
The use of cocaine had reached a worrying numbers in contrast to that of the early 1970s.
II. Main Point 1: The Sinaloa Drug Cartel was created when a previous powerful drug cartel failed due to the arrest of its leader
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.
Reagan also showed his strength and courage when he created the war on drugs. Mary Anastasia O'Grady explains how Mexico’s President warned the United States about the rampant drug trafficking problem, and how he urged us to take action: "This problem will spill across. Drug ga...
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...
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The cocaine commodity chains play a big role in the history of illicit commodity chains in North America. The origins of the chain begun in the Andes when the drug was found in coca leaves discovered in the 1800’s. In the first paragraph of my essay I’m going to touch on the history of the commodity chain, however my main focus will be on the growth of the chain in North America between 1950 and 2000, the geographical regions, spatial logistics and organization.
“Mexicans smugglers have long trafficked homegrown heroin and marijuana to the U.S. But in the 1980’s, mexico also became the primary route for colombian cocaine bound for the U.S” (Bates). According to Bates, when Guadalajara’s leader was arrested in 1989, the groups remaining capos, including a young Guzman divided up its trafficking routes, creating the Sinaloa, Juarez, and Tijuana Cartels.
The United States has a long history of intervention in the affairs of one it’s southern neighbor, Latin America. The war on drugs has been no exception. An investigation of US relations with Latin America in the period from 1820 to 1960, reveals the war on drugs to be a convenient extension of an almost 200 year-old policy. This investigation focuses on the commercial and political objectives of the US in fighting a war on drugs in Latin America. These objectives explain why the failing drug policy persisted despite its overwhelming failure to decrease drug production or trafficking. These objectives also explain why the US has recently exchanged a war on drugs for the war on terrorism.
The paper traces Escobar's life from humble peasant beginnings to powerful cocaine drug dealer and kingpin. The paper discusses the sound financial decisions Escobar made as well as the way he invested in legitimate projects using the funds he gained illegally. The paper explores the influence Escobar had and the way he worked, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a no-extradition clause into the Colombian constitution.
"A businessman, and a business woman sit across from each other in negotiations. The man proposes four thousand pesos, and the woman says she can't afford that much. She counter-offers with twenty-five hundred pesos. The man agrees and leaves. This was a weekly payment for the protection of the woman's local business against the Juarez Cartel." (Lacey, M. 2010).
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...