America 's Freedom Of Freedom

El Narco, a nonfiction book, describes the drug war in Mexico that has continued and intensified in the past couple of decades. Criminal activities of drug traffickers have resulted in instability of Mexican citizens. Some casualties in the past decade have been more than 34,000 due to the drug war. The drug war is still ongoing between numerous Mexican drug cartels and the Mexican government. Because of Mexican drug war between the Mexican government and drug cartels many

America’s gift to my generation is the gift of freedom and equality. America’s gift of freedom falls under the gift of the freedom to use the internet and the free internet, the gift of racial and sexual equality, and the gift of the maintenance of freedom.

Freedom and liberties are the most popular and significant topic in the United States. However, what’s the freedom and who can enjoy the freedom became the controversial arguments in America during its post-civil war period. Since people with different gender, different race, and even different customs may have their own opinions and prospects of the rights they should have, white Americans, African Americans, immigrants and even women were trying to define and strive for their own freedom. Compared African American and American women, after the reconstruction of the United States, the former one mainly strove for their personal liberty such as free marriage and political rights like voting because of their previous cruel life of slavery, whereas women not only strove for their equal rights but also their social respect due to their low social condition before war.

“For me personally, it’s been a nightmare, because I don’t see any way out now. The men who got inside my house put their guns to my neighbors’ heads—that’s including one six-year-old girl.” This is Mexican investigative journalists Anabel Hernandez’s response when asked about her safety and a recent home invasion directed toward her courtesy of the drug cartels.(Alexandrov) This is what it is like to lead a career as a journalist reporting on drug cartels in many latin American countries. The cartels influence on local and federal government in Mexico gives them the freedom to threaten and actively pursue journalists as targets with no retributions for their actions. This is leaving journalists like Hernandez defenseless and in danger, in the last ten years alone more than 80 journalists have been killed and nothing is being done about it.(Alexandrov)

Mexican organized groups, or “cartels”, produce a quasi-political discourse- a form of narco propaganda. Narco propaganda is not a fully formed political ideology but is an important part of public discourse in Mexico (though data is mysterious and ambiguous). The mysteriousness of narco-propaganda gives it even more power. Narco-propaganda is a discourse directed at

The most defining characteristic of our country is its youth. In the grand scheme of things, the United States of America is still a child.

Brief Summary: Since of the drug war that took place, and a mexican, El Chapo, being the prime leader of the event, individuals all over the world are judging Mexico from what they heard or saw, and overlooking the fact that they have some of the largest companies there. The war took 164,000 lives, nationally. In eight years, forty mayors have been annihilated, and according to InSight Crime, a think tank that records down law and justice in Latin America, 99% of the crimes are uncondemned, which is a high percentage. A german company once said that this must be due to the amount of violence, the corruption of public servants, cultural trend, and drug trafficking. At first, it was approximately 63% of distrust, but in the year of 2014, the percentage spike up to 71%, meaning the percentage enlarged by about 10%. The percentage of individuals who don’t have faith in their president went from 52% to 61%, so an increase of again, about 10%. The lack of faith in their justice system enlarged from a starting point of 58% to 66%, and for the Federal Police and the army, the percentage changed from 52% to 64%. The list goes on, on the percentage of individuals that lack faith in their government. In last April, the worst police attack occurred since a decade. As a result, fifteen officers died right outside Guadalajara. The city holds the name of “Mexico’s money laundering capital.”

With all the efforts made to stop the war and trade of drugs in Mexico, the power of the cartels is still ever-growing. Only rarely is a story heard were someone other than the cartel comes up victorious, such as the case of sister Martinez. But unlike sister Martinez, many other peace activists find themselves out of luck. Violent murders and kidnappings are common, and people live in fear when police officers can no longer be trusted. Despite their best efforts, the Mexican Government has not yet put a stop to all this crime, but has been taking large steps in the recent times.

“Neglect or dismissal of human rights demands can raise the stakes for low-intensity conflict to high-intensity conflict” (Mertus, 5). While the government fights the drug cartels and tries to portray a winning picture to its citizens, and the drug cartels fighting each other while involve in other criminal acts, the Mexican people find itself in the middle of the conflict. While dealing with the cartels, the government should also focus in the security and human rights of its citizens. Division within a county will flare into violence again (Lutz, 36); thus the government must address the conflict with the help of its own people, taking into account their security and human rights before the state’s. To do so, the government must link human rights and conflict resolution; Cultural, social, economic, political, and other structures create an architecture for relationships and help determine whether resources will be shared relatively equally (Schirch, 68). The government success in the Drug War rest in its ability to unite its people, destroy the gaps that divide its citizens and respect the human rights of all of its

Throughout the six cases we have studied, each of them have valuable facts and information that young journalist use to their protection and rights. Journalist need to known what they can and can't do and need to now how to be protected. These topics cover it.

I was wrong. In 2006, when I was seven years old Rafael Correa was elected president of Ecuador. What I first thought to be a charismatic leader shortly turned into a strong authoritarian leader and not a friend of free speech. Correa started a long harassing campaign against the media, and was particularly vicious against my family. This long harassment reached its peak in 2010, when as a result of an unflattering OP-ed Correa, sued the newspaper for slander claiming that his “honor as a common citizen” was tainted. He asked for $80 million dollars (A ridiculous sum that would bankrupt the paper) and jail time for the editors and directors.

“In the Mexico we want; there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.” On December 1 2012, in the country of Mexico, a new president entered the office. Upon being inaugurated, Enrique Peña Nieto vowed to increase welfare in Mexico as well as terminate drug cartels throughout the country. Although well-known for divulging scandalous confessions, the current president of Mexico has had both positive and negative influences on the citizens of the Spanish-speaking country, from his meritorious effort at capturing notorious drug dealer “El Chapo”, to the unmitigated crowds protesting his negligence when 43 students go missing.

But many of these journalists are being denied to go into the country and some of them are allowed into the country but they aren’t allowed to meeting that the dictator will have with other officials. It happened in other countries as well and progressed its way to Panama. “This summer, Bertoni submitted a report to the inter-American Commission on Human Rights documenting a program run by the Colombian government to protect journalists. The report said hundreds of journalists had benefited from the program but that it needed more political support and a larger budget.” (Boustany). Other countries were having the same problem with journalists going into the country when they are allowed to, then they are just denied and left with no information. Other countries such as Argentina and Chile are discussing about making same laws for the journalists and how they can prevent form their human rights being violated. “Civil society is responsible for these new laws. All we did was advocate it and give support while the process was underway.” (Boustany). Society is the cause for this because people such as the dictator, make sure that these things don’t happen and then the government has to try to make laws for the dictator to

He states, “There is no evidence of an increase in crime rates before the launching of the current strategy and in fact, crime rates in Mexico were following a steady decline since the early 1990’s”.1 The strategy followed so far may have led to an increase in violence through many different channels. Esquivel notes that the new strategy should address the source of violence, which may be by region, and focus on detaining those who commit violent acts and also attack the financial resources of DTOs considering there has been no progress there in recent years. However this method requires more intelligence work and a more comprehensive

Being a journalist is one of the most riskiest jobs out there, most of them are under protection, however, some are unguarded. Death threats and harassment are occurring more and more when the years go by. War - torn countries in the middle east are the top of the list for deadliest countries for journalists. However, an archipelago in South Asia began to become one of the most dangerous places to report. In 1992, there was 77 deaths because of their work in the Philippines. Another incident called the ‘Maguindanao Massacre’ happened in early 2009. During that time, men who were armed with dangerous weapons killed 32 journalists along with 25 other innocent individuals. Each year, countries like the Philippines, Iraq, and Syria's number of journalists who die per year had increased due to the recent events and unauthorized government. Laws in different countries have been established to prevent the killings of journalist and give them protection that they need in order to be comfortable. There has been a law called the ‘Shield law” which is created to protect journalists and reporter privileges. The privilege includes the right of news reporters to refuse to testify information. This law gives them protection against being forced to confess confidential information in the state/regions law.