When we were little kids, we always loved watching movies. Specifically movies where there was either a good guy or hero involved. No matter if it was a Disney classic or an action-packed Marvel series, The ideal perspective was that we always rooted for the good guy or the hero; not me, I always rooted for the bad guy, the criminal. When everyone rooted for Batman, I rooted for the Joker, or when everyone expected Ariel to have a happy ending in the little mermaid, I wanted Ursula to win. That is why when I saw the subject on the drug war, I instantly wanted to focus around the criminals who have caused this war in the first place. I specifically wanted to focus on the criminal Pablo Escobar because of his notorious reputation. Seeing someone …show more content…
Not only has it taken a toll on America, but on other countries as well including Colombia and Mexico. Colombia has become the height of the problem against war on drugs due to one individual, Pablo Escobar. Pablo Escobar, also known as “ The King of Coke”, has become the most notorious drug traffickers in human history. He is one of the most influential drug lord because he is one of the biggest drug traffickers in the drug war, he has gained tremendous amounts of money from drugs, and many lives have been sacrificed because of his …show more content…
Possibly one of the most famous criminals of all time, it is calculated that a little over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the United States from 1970-1980 is solely from Pablo and his Medellin Cartel. Before he found his profession in drug trafficking, Pablo started off stealing tombstones from cemeteries as a young boy, sanding the names of the deceased, and selling them to Panamanian smugglers as a profit. Even though he was not a heavy drinker or a cigarette smoker, he found a liking to cannabis and began selling marijuana to Colombia locals before he found profit in cocaine in 1970. Because of his major influence and huge name from his criminal past, numerous books, articles, and movies have been published and aired to broadcast the notorious criminal. Even though he has passed away, his name still lives on and to this day, is still one of the biggest criminals in the
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
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.
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Narcoterrorism has a long past in the history of Colombia, focusing mainly on the market development of one drug: cocaine. Colombia, with its arid tropical climate and lush land, is an ideal place for the sowing and reaping of the coca plant whose extracts are synthesized into the powder cocaine drug. As Colombian cocaine production skyrocketed in the 1970’s and 1980’s thanks to booming demand for the product in Americas, drug kingpins in Colombia began to wield immense power in the country. ...
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, the man that ruled cocaine distribution around the world, and devastated it in the process. Pablo Escobar’s influence and fame were so vast and reaching he outgrew his britches. Escobar’s vision and narcissistic approach which rose him to become the most intelligent, violent and influential political figure of narcotics and the Medellin cartel; which, led to the fatal bullet ending him on the rooftop of an abandoned house in his home town.
When it comes to the topic of war on drugs,most of us will readily agree that the war on drugs is not about the drugs But about the people. Many Politicians and law enforcement will argue that the war on drugs is about our nation's wealth and safety.however they don't see the destruction the war on drugs has caused; The war on drugs has recreated this new system of discrimination among the minority community, individuals and communities are being profiled,their rights as citizen are being seized ,individuals being stripped away from their families. They’re being locked up with no hope to live the American dream in their our country.
Many people who sell drugs are people whom don’t want to live in poverty and have no other means to get food on the table. Ricky Ross is a great example of this since he himself said that he would have never imagined becoming a drug dealer and actually wanted to be a cop or a firefighter growing up. However, he needed a way to get food on the table without having to steal it from stores and get himself out of poverty. When crack cocaine hit the streets and was being advertised on every new media outlet as being the cheapest and strongest drug out there and people should stay away from it, he got into the drug business and started using marketing tactics and making turning himself into something of a person to look up to on the streets because of his success. Several people throughout the film said that the war on poverty was replaced with the war on drugs and the war on drugs is America’s last hope in combating poverty and those who live in poverty. Drugs come from poverty because it inspires crime and thus reducing confidence and pride in low income areas. It is also known that the war on drugs give people the power to sell drugs in particular neighborhoods, where it is harder for the people in the city to keep drug dealing from being done out in the open and paraphernalia from littering the streets thus making it a norm so drug dealers can go to these areas know they’ll get
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.
America's War on Drugs: Policy and Problems. In this paper I will evaluate America's War on Drugs. More specifically, I will outline our nation's general drug history and look critically at how Congress has influenced our current ineffective drug policy. Through this analysis, I hope to show that drug prohibition policies in the United States, for the most part, have failed.
.... Weak economies and high poverty rates haven’t been much assistance in preventing drug trafficking either. People have become more susceptible to making risks in order to find ways to support their families and drug networks are always looking for more people to distribute their drugs around the world. Because of drug trafficking, there are constant civil wars going on between the drug corporations, law enforcement, and citizens. This has become a common theme all throughout the world. Drug trafficking has only became worse and worse each and every day, and it is going to continue to be a problem for quite some time.
The Mexican drug-trafficking cartels are said to have been established in the 1980s by a man named Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. With the help of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel started the Guadalajara Cartel, which is one of the first to have thrived from association with the Colombian cocaine trade. The two men who helped Miguel Gallardo establish the cartel were arrested, so Gallardo, the single leader of the cartel “was smart enough to privatize the Mexican drug trade by having it run by lesser-known bosses” (The Five Most Famous Drug Cartels”), that he often met with in Acapulco. Eventually Miguel was arrested as well which caused the split of the Guadalajara Cartel into the Sinaloa Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel.
Pablo Escobar dedicated most of his life to being the spearhead of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia. The Medellin Cartel was not just a business, it was an empire. It possessed countless camps as well as laboratories devoted to the production of drugs. As it was mentioned earlier, the profits of the cartel were very high. The immense amount of money was put toward the purchase of new labs, planes, and even an island. The Medellin Cartel focused predominantly on cocaine. Not only did Pablo Escobar run a “criminal enterprise” committed to illegally trafficking drugs, he was also “responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of government officials, police, prosecutors, judges, journalists, and innocent bystanders” (Kelley). By spending large amounts of money on public projects to help others, many saw him as a very generous, caring man. Most people only saw the Pablo Escobar that loved to share his wealth with those who needed it in his hometown. They did not see what he was really capable of, commit...
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.
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...