Smuggling Drugs into the United States
On July 30, Federal agents charged twelve Delta Air Lines employees of smuggling drugs into the
United States. Nine Delta Airlines workers were arrested and three others are sought as suspects in
a scheme that brought 10 tons of Colombian cocaine into the U.S. via Delta flights from Puerto
Rico. Over a three to four year period, employees stashed cocaine in suitcases and packed the drug
into cargo containers which were then transported primarily to New York from San Juan's Munóz
Marin International Airport, agents said (Christopher Wren, "Nine at Delta Are Seized in Smuggling
of Cocaine," New York Times, July 31, 1997, p. A23; "Delta workers indicted on cocaine
smuggling charges," USA Today, July 31, 1997, p. 3A; "Airline Workers Held in Drug Ring,"
Washington Post, July 31, 1997, p. A16).
In a separate investigation, agents in Miami arrested six American Airlines employees on July 31
who allegedly imported heroin and cocaine from Bogota, Colombia. The drugs were stashed behind
walls in the airplane galleys. Since November the employees allegedly smuggled 1,100 pounds of
cocaine and up to 22 pounds of heroin. The drugs were placed on the plane in Bogota, but not
unloaded until after the plane had landed in Miami and then made one domestic round trip flight to
avoid surveillance at Miami International. The scheme required "not only a mechanic's or a cargo
handler's knowledge but an operations man's knowledge of where a flight is coming from, whether
it's going to go and where it's going to go if it is," said Art Kosatka, security specialist for Counter
Technology Inc. (Richard Willing, "Airline drug smugglers getting ever more sophisticated,"
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bill undermines the fundamental U.S. foreign policy goals of supporting democracy and human rights"
(WOLA, "`Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act' Would Further Militarize Andean Region
Drug War," Legislative Alert, September 14, 1998).
According to WOLA, U.S. funding for anti-drug efforts in Latin America has increased more than
150% over the last ten years. Yet, by U.S. State Department estimates, coca cultivation is 11.7%
higher, and opium production has doubled. Over the last decade, total drug production in Colombia
has risen an estimated 260%. Coca production in Colombia has more than tripled, making Colombia
the world's leading coca producer. Twenty years ago almost no coca was grown in Colombia. Only
four years ago, no heroin was produced in Colombia; it now ranks third in the world in poppy
cultivation and fourth in heroin production.
Bob Probert was a 45 year old man with 4 kids and a wife when he passed away from CTE. He drank, did drugs, and was a womanizer but he didn’t want his kids to find out. He knew they eventually would though and he said that when they did find out, he wanted it to be “straight from the source” (1.). He used to snort cocaine. Once when he was caught while smuggling drugs over the Detroit-Windsor border, he dumped it in the toilet. The first time he tried cocaine was in 1983. It was post-game and before long he was buying an ounce a week which was $800 so it was about $42,000 a year. His work permit was revoked by the US government. He met his wife in Relax Plaza in Windsor and even after he was caught on the border she still stayed with him. To pass drug tests, he would microwave his urine so it would come up clean.
In a recorded conversation, Williams told Adams he could protect his drug operation, but he needed to bring his partner in on it. In 1994, Davis and Williams provide Adams police protection. The informant Terry Adams delivered about 7.5 kilograms of cocaine to a FBI undercover agent, each officer was paid $500 per kilo. May 4, 1994 two cops, Adams and undercover FBI agent Juan Jackson posed as a New York drug dealer named ‘JJ” he made everyone strip to show that they were not wired.” The cops agreed to hire a uniformed New Orleans police officer to protect the large quantities of cocaine for three days. Davis recommended
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.
Guy Philippe was not selling cocaine directly, but as the police chief he was charged with the security of the country. He sold his integrity and shirked his responsibilities for millions of dollars. Money he used to purchase houses in Florida, Dominican Republic and Haiti. According to our sources (one of his co-conspirators), and contrary to what the US prosecutor in Miami said, Philippe pocketed more than 10 million dollars in bribes between 1999 and 2005. Saint Surin whose assets were seized by the US government is estimated to have made nearly 50 million dollars
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...
Gootenberg, Paul. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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...
11 Feb 2014. http://www.justthinktwice.com/content/inside_dea.html>. Keefe, Patrick. A. “Cocaine Incorporated.” New York Times.
Concerned authorities have focused essentially on criminalization and punishment, to find remedies to the ever-increasing prevalent drug problem. In the name of drug reducing policies, authorities endorse more corrective and expensive drug control methods and officials approve stricter new drug war policies, violating numerous human rights. Regardless of or perhaps because of these efforts, UN agencies estimate the annual revenue generated by the illegal drug industry at $US400 billion, or the equivalent of roughly eight per cent of total international trade (Riley 1998). This trade has increased organized/unorganized crime, corrupted authorities and police officials, raised violence, disrupted economic markets, increased risk of diseases an...
In 1995, the US began to fund aerial eradication campaigns in Colombia. Military planes dumped pesticides over thousands of acres of coca fields. These campaigns turned out to be counterproductive, leading to an actual increase in the amount of coca acreage. The spraying of coca only led Colombian growers to diversify their techniques, growing coca amongst other crops or in locations that were hard to identify by radar techniques. In 2002, the CI...
President Reagan established the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) following the passage of the Anti-Abuse Act of 1988 amidst mounting risk of drug dependence becoming more pervasive in American workplaces and schools. The legislation established the need for the federal government to make a good-faith effort in maintaining drug-free work places, schools, and drug abuse and rehabilitation programs for many users (Eddy, 2005). The early focus for the ONDCP’s was to curb the rising drug threat emanating from the drug cartels operating throughout South America, in...
.... 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.
Sub Point 1: Tessa Vinson explains the origins of The Cartel in the Spring 2009 issue of The Monitor. Chinese immigrants working on the railroads brought with them the knowledge of how to grow poppy. Poppy is a plant which contains opium which is a source for many other drugs. As the need for poppy grew in demand Sinaloens began to export it through the Pacific Railroad into the United States. The United States and Mexico became increasingly aware of this and launched "Operation Condor" on November 1975, which eliminated most poppy fields aerially. This forced many small cartels to go out of business but also eliminated competition for the more established cartels. With the supply of poppy gone most cartels shifted their attention toward Columbian cocaine. In the mid-1970s Drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo who was in charge of powerful Guadalajara cartel began to export cocaine, he became known as "El Padrino" as he eventually controlled almost all of the drug market. (Vinson, 2009, pp.
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