Organized crime in South America has been the top most dangerous organized crime groups in history. South America is made up of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Honduras, Bolivia, Venezuela and more. In my own opinion these countries are beyond dangerous, looking back to 2006-2007, Mexico was a beautiful place for tourists from all around the world that wanted to come and explore there beaches, ruins, culture and more. But nowadays not only Mexico but all of these countries are threats to their own people and even outsiders. South America is primarily known for the Drug trafficking organized crime are then anything else. Some of these countries are worse than others, but they all individually have negative and positive aspect to them. Here in the United States we live among different races, different cultures and even different ways of thinking. Many immigrants came to United States in the hopes of a better future. People from all around the world contribute a little to make USA what it is today. I will explain how all these different cultures/countries from South America are involved with organized crime groups, and how they affect the United States as in a whole. Venezuela is the most dangerous nation in South America, and Caracas is the most dangerous capital (McDermott1). Over the years, Venezuela has been known …show more content…
Authority structure is defined vertical distribution of power and authority. Divisions of labor are all the different tasks assigned to different people. Reward can be money, power and status is determined among one another. Also, size is composed of a limited number of individuals. Internal discipline is the strong system of internal discipline and control. Also, there is code of conduct, internal disputes, public knowledge, group membership and more
Organized crime is an international issue and it exists in several different countries, such as; Italy, China, Japan, Russia and the United States of America. Although all these groups of organized crime have many things in common they tend to have different ways of doing something, or they may not do them at all. Many also commit similar types of crimes, and others commit crimes other groups would not.
Introduction The exponential growth of gangs in the Northern Triangle countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras) has led to an epidemic of violence across the region. The two largest and most formidable gangs in the Northern Triangle, the Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) and the Barrio 18, wage battles against one another to control territory and defend against incursions. In 2011, Honduras led the world in homicides, with 91.6 per 100,000 people; rates were also alarmingly high in El Salvador and Guatemala, at 69.1 and 38.5 per 100,000 people, respectively. In El Salvador, a country with a population of only 6.2 million people, 4,354 were the victims of homicide in 2011 alone, with the Catholic Church estimating that more than 1,300 of these deaths were the direct result of gang violence. To counteract the growth of the gang phenomenon, during the 2000s the Northern Triangle countries favored a mano dura (iron fist) approach to dealing with the increasing belligerence of gangs.
Our team presentation focused on three Latino gangs, MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha), the Mexican Mafia and the Los Surenos gang. My part of the presentation was to provide information on the type of crime these three gangs are known to commit. The crimes committed by the MS-13 gang are varied, violent, and take place all over the country. The FBI even put together a task force called the MS-13 National Gang Task Force in December of 2004 to try to put a stop to this gang’s activities. (www.fbi.gov). Los Surenos or Sur-13, originally based in Los Angeles, has also branched out from turf wars with rival gangs to “for profit”, violent crimes across the country. The Mexican Mafia has a similar story to tell as well in regards to gang crimes, which again range from respect crimes, and retaliatory violence to crimes for profit.
With some street gangs being relatively harmless, there are others such as Mara Salvatrucha that are becoming more fierce and territorial. The beginning of the MS-13 can be traced to Los Angles in the 1980s. * At first, Salvadoran families fled their country to escape the civil war, “that left more than 70,000 people dead and displaced a fifth of the population.” (Abadinsky, 188). “El Salvador is one of the poorest countries in Latin America with almost half of its population living in poverty.” (Abadinsky, 188). With the United States being known as the Land of Opportunity, the war and poverty combination was a good reason for Salvadorans to enter the U.S. and call it “home.”
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...
Over the last several decades, violence has consumed and transformed Mexico. Since the rise of dozens of Mexican cartels, the Mexican government has constantly been fighting an ongoing war with these criminal organizations. The cartel organizations have a primary purpose of managing and controlling illegal drug trafficking operations in Central America and South America to the United States. Violence on a massive and brutal scale has emerged due to the nature of the illegal drug trade. Because the drug trade is vastly widespread, cartels are often fighting one another and competing in business. Mexican authorities count at least 12 major cartels, but also talk of an untold numbers of smaller splinter groups. (Taipei Times). Five cartels from Mexico have risen to become the extremely powerful amongst all the drug organizations operating in Mexico. The Guadalajara Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, and the Gulf Cartel. These organizations, along with other distinguished Mexican cartels, have plagued Mexico with violence, terror, and fear due to the essence and nature of illegal drug trafficking.
The Mexican drug cartel is made up of many different cartels, but the main one is the Sinaloa cartel. The Sinaloa cartel is one of the most dangerous cartels in mexico, it is also the most optimistic cartel in mexico, they will go to high extents into their projects. The leader of the Sinaloa cartel is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, he is believed to be one of the most powerful drug lords in the whole world. There aren’t many organizations trying to stop the cartels besides the DEA which stands for Drug Enforcement Administration. The drug cartel is all about smuggling drugs to many parts of the world but mostly the U.S. since they share borders and is the closest place to take drugs to.
What is the Columbian drug cartel? It is an illegal trade involving criminal groups of producing and distributing illegal drugs. These cartels illegally smuggled in large amounts of cocaine and other drugs. Two men joined together and flew cocaine into the United States by using small airplanes. Since cocaine is shipped to every nation and the profits are high, these cartels have enough money to make bigger and more sophisticated cocaine labs.
Research for this assignment will be done to see if get tough policies have any effect on organized crime. Will organized crime through lucrative deals prevail? Will also be researched and answered within the context of this paper. By analyzing to see why get tough policies being put in place to stop organized crime, doesn’t work, then how organized crime can be stopped, will be explained and researched within this paper. The author of this paper will implement a point of view on how to stop organized crime, within the context of this paper. Lastly answer what effect does the war on crime against organized, will be researched and explained, if it works or not.
Medellin is considered by many outside of South America to be the most dangerous city in the world, Medellin, Colombia is internationally renowned as the home of Colombian icon Pablo Escobar, a drug lord. During the Pablo Escobar time, people were scared to roam the streets in fear for their lives. It was said that Pablo Escobar owned a lot of the government and that because of him the police department was a corrupted one.
The narco-cartels have been trying to imposed social authority to their subjects of terror or blackmail: enemy governments and their society since it represents the key factor to unlock their legal impairment to make their crime related activity a profitable occupation. Mexico’s story of political corruption by drug cartels has been disseminated through many reliable sources of information and has become a latent topic feeding the everyday public communication.
It wasn't just in Miami that the violence had erupted but also in Colombia. The situation in the country was much worse; the Medellin Cartel which was controlled by Pablo Escobar, The Ochoa Brother, Carlos Lehder, and Jose Rodriguez Gacha controlled much of the drug trade in Colombia. The Medellin Cartel would be at war against the Colombian government; as a result police, judges, and government officials were gunned down on the streets of Columbia. The government had evidence to extradite anyone who was caught acting in drug related crimes. As a result the Cartel made one of the most violent act they have ever committed. On November 6, 1985 the guerrilla group, M19, raided the palace of justice. According to Business Insider the raid took course over 2 days.
America has always been a nation of immigrants but up until about 1890 most of those immigrants were from Britain,Germany,Ireland, and Scandinavia. Starting in the waning years of the nineteenth century a "new immigration" started to occur. Italians made up the largest nationality of this new wave. In the first fifteen years of the twentieth century three million Italians emigrated to the United States, most from southern Italy and Sicily. ("History of Italian Immigration," n.d.)Most of these immigrants were poor farmers and tradesmen with very little formal education. They were seen only as fit for the most basic manual labor. Italians were often met with suspicion because they were a close knit community that kept to themselves. Rumors that
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.
Drug cartels have been able to build up their reputation and claim a stake in the country. They are able to put fear into Mexicans because they have turned the country around. They even made it “the kidnapping capital of the world (Cawley).” Many cartels use kidnapping as a way to remind people who they are and also a way to ransom money out of the people and government. This trend spiked around the same time ex-President Felipe Calderon’s assault on organized crime. Many of Mexico’s well-known cartels were significantly affected, causing them to lose revenue from drug trafficking. But it also stimulated newer, smaller criminal organizations to rise, though they found other ways to make an income besides drug trafficking. The problem seems to continue grow and change from drug trade to other criminal activities. This makes it unsafe for the citizens of Mexico, government officials and any organize crime groups because they all get caught up in the killing. The United States is also affected because United States is one of the main places that Mexico’s drug cartels supply and the United States are helping fund the Mexican government in their war against drugs. They have invested, “over 100 million per year in military and police assistance, including world-class weapons, training and intelligence