Afghanistan Drug Trafficking

For decades, drug trafficking has cast its dark shadow over the Americas. In the early 1980’s Columbia was the leader in drug trafficking. They had 2 menacing cartels, the Cali and the Medellin. They owned the show and would eliminate any threats to their business. Though in the early 1990’s when these two cartels were finally taken down, it only gave other cartels the opportunity to rise. This issue has grown rampant and out of control for one country. Mexico has seen a severe increase since the 1990’s in drug trafficking and cartels. The rise in power of Mexico’s Cartels shifted the balance between law and order in this country. Now cartels are killing thousands of citizens and corrupting hundreds of government officials in mexico. Also making

This article talks about how drug trafficking was thriving due to the new and unstable Mexican government, as well as drug lords and traffickers being regarded as heroes. This article touches on the fact that drug trafficking in Mexico is so widespread due to alliances between some drug lords and politicians. Overall, this article explains in detail how and why drug trafficking is so popular in areas across

The Mexican and U.S. government, think tanks, the academia, journalists, etc have studied the recent outburst of criminal violence in Mexico. The two main reasons they found of why this trend has occurred in the last couple of years is the rise of illegal drug groups and the 'war on drug trafficking' declared by the government of Felipe Calderón and the corruption within the Mexican government and its subsidiary public institutions and enforcement forces. In fact, “during the neoliberal era, narcotrafficking has flourished to become one of the country's biggest sources of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone.” Corruption within the public institutions, in the same way, has increased dramatically

The CIA wanted to stop drug trafficking, and out an end to it, when there was money involved it was a different story, the Cia thought to keep this on the low would be a good idea, they ended up thinking wrong, it’s a conspiracy gone wrong, they believed that by selling drugs, they can make a lot more money, they knew it was a bad thing to do, but business is business, they had to do what had to be done, this conspiracy that they did backfired on them dramatically, it cost them innocent lives all because of the CIA’s plan to make money, it eventually hurt them in the long run.

Drug trafficking is a global illicit trade that includes the cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and sale of substances which are under drug laws that prohibit it. Maritime and land routes are used by organised drug trafficking syndicates to transport cocaine, opium and heroin to other parts of the world.

The history of drug trafficking dates back to thousands of years, but one of the earliest operations involving the United States goes back to 1850 when chinese immigrants smuggled opium into California through large cargo ships. This paved the way for the ‘popular’ drugs of today's era, such as: marijuana, cocaine, and meth. Over the past 40 years the US has spent a staggering $2.5 trillion dollars fighting the drug war. Despite these efforts, the U.S. International Narcotics Control Strategy reports that only 10% of cocaine smuggled over the border of Mexico is intercepted (Suddath). US government officials have stated, “The only way to completely stop the drug war, is to help the other countries involved in it.” A prime example of this would

Majority of the people in Afghanistan never thought about the cultivation of poppies (opium) as a method of revenue for welfares until the Soviet Union’s invasion. Therefore, many expert people argue that the result of the war caused cultivation of poppies in the country. A successful eradication of opium in Afghanistan will lead the country towards a stable, prosperous, and secure state in the region thru implementing the three strategic factors. The first factor is: eliminate all the lines of financial funding to the terrorist groups by over watching the markets, banks, and border areas. The second factor is: the society of Afghanistan will be free from the use of drugs, and the trust will be built between the people and the government forces.

Drug trafficking is the illicit production transportation and trade with drugs. These drugs are produced in one country of the world and with strong network communication are traded to different destination of the world. It is clear that the existence of drug trafficking is the international problem, which needs rapid solutions. The harmful impact of drugs is commonly known all over the planet, that is why the majority of the drugs prohibited. Also it has a tremendous social impact that is breaking society slowly. This topic caught my attention and wanted to do a research on this topic because there are numerous issues those conflicts on this topic. Drugs are entering to United States from numerous places and statistics of deaths are

Within a few weeks after 9/11, the CIA gave millions of dollars to the Northern Alliance to help with the fight against the Taliban. Obviously, the intelligence community wasn’t concerned with drug trafficking and in March of 2002 the U.S. State Department reported that the Northern Alliance had done nothing to curb the production of opium. As a result, in 2002, Afghanistan’s opium production had returned to a similar level (3,400 tons) before the ban from the Taliban. Afghanistan quickly regained its monopoly on the world’s opium supply, roughly 90% of the world’s opium.

A woman overdose due to heroin dealt by five other people one being a fifteen-year-old boy who delivered the heroin to the victim. On the day of the death of the victim(sometime within a week), she went to go buy heroin near a living space in Greensburg. After receiving the drugs she went home and later overdosed. The dealers(Brea Sanders, Toni Sanders, Maurice Williams, Tywan David, and the fifteen year old boy) were found with 690 stamp bags in the room as well as themselves, due to a tip that gave local authorities the location of the deal, allowing all five to be arrested on the spot and charged with drug charges as well as murder charges. This problem is not only a local one, yet a national level problem. This happens all over the US, but this one is one of the local reports in Pittsburg. Also, Drug use and dealing have been a problem within the US for years, yet the banning of drugs is helping the business grow and certain city law enforcement rarely does anything about it until someone is found dead. Overall, the article was to prove that anyone could become involved with the trafficking of drugs, and be a “Mule, or the person who delivered the deadly drugs in this case,…(to not being) an adult,”.

Drug trafficking is an illegal drug trading system in which drugs are brought from other countries to the United States. According to the the article, “Crime and Drug Control Policies in the United States” written by Thomas Mieczkowski, illegal drug trafficking from Mexico and Colombia have been hurting the American society for many years. Drugs have been coming into the U.S. in many different forms and routes especially through the border of the United States and Mexico (Mieczkowski 2008). The large amounts of drugs brought into America is for the intend to sell and make immense amounts of profit. Most of the drugs coming in from Mexico and other South American countries are all easily grown or produced from where it comes from. After these drugs enter the U.S. they are given to distributors who supply portions to many different drug dealers and these drug dealers sell the drugs to the citizens of America. In most cases the buyer of the drugs are drug addicts, or someone that 's just trying sell what they got for more profit (Mieczkowski 2008). All these different drugs are causing thousands of American teens to become addicts, which leads them to lose control and do absurd things or die due to overdose on those drugs (The History of Drug Abuse). The DEA and the American government do many things to prevent drugs coming in from Mexico and confiscate anything they find, but the amount confiscated is nowhere near the amount actually entering the U.S. (Mieczkowski 2008). In

Drug trafficking is an illegal drug trading system in which drugs are brought from other countries to the United States. According to the article, “Crime and Drug Control Policies in the United States” written by Thomas Mieczkowski, illegal drug trafficking from Mexico and Colombia have been hurting the American society for many years. Drugs have been coming into the U.S. in many different forms and routes especially through the border of the United States and Mexico (Mieczkowski 2008). The large amounts of drugs brought into America is for intent to sell and make immense amounts of profit. Most of the drugs coming in from Mexico and other South American countries are all easily grown or produced from where it comes from. After these drugs enter the U.S. they are given to distributors who supply portions to many different drug dealers and these drug dealers sell the drugs to the citizens of America. In most cases the buyer of the drugs are drug addicts, or someone that 's just trying sell what they got for more profit (Mieczkowski 2008). All these different drugs are causing thousands of American teens to become addicts, which leads them to lose control and do absurd things or die due to overdose on those drugs (The History of Drug Abuse). The DEA and the American government do many things to prevent drugs coming in from Mexico and confiscate anything they find, but the amount confiscated is nowhere near the amount actually entering the U.S. (Mieczkowski 2008). Drug

Over the past three decades, the US has spent more than a trillion dollars to curtail drug industry operations in Latin America. During 1980s, Peru, Bolivia and Columbia used to contribute 65%, 25% and 10% toward the overall coca production globally. Since then, due to many US funded war efforts on drugs in these neighboring Andean countries, drug industry in Columbia got a tremendous boost, increasing its market share to 90% and making it the world’s largest cocaine producer ever by 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, US invested close to $7.3bn on military and economic aid to eradicate coca production and cocaine trafficking. The project

Afghanistan has been the worst country when it comes to drug production. Afghanistan farmers produce a plant called, “Papaver Somniferum”, but also known as opium poppy which goes into more than 90% of the heroin worldwide. This country has been the world's greatest illegal opium producer, ahead of the "Golden Triangle" (Three of the largest producers in Asia), and Latin America since 1992. Afghanistan is the main producer of opium in the "Golden Crescent".

On the other hand, the authors outline the importance of drug trafficking as the most significant and current source of income for both terrorist and international criminal organizations. Similarly, The Jamestown Foundation cites the example of how profits of narcotrafficking have been used to strengthen international links between terrorist organizations: ‘ETA has been training FARC members in explosives and weapons. In exchange, the FARC compensated the Basque terrorists, using financial revenues obtained through drug trafficking’ . Thus, one could affirm that the market of illegal drugs and narcotics produce enormous revenues which often support criminal organizations, revolutionary groups, and terrorist organizations among many other illegal forms of crime.