Article Review of RJS Cadena's 'Capturing the Cali Cartel: Selections from Jaque Mate'

It was a time in the city’s history to get the perpetrators of the crime committed and to be recognized as solving the greatest crime of time. Media and public presence played a huge role in pressuring law enforcement to figure out this awful incident. The demand from the public was pushing from all sides of this story to get answers.

In this book, Luis Rodriguez deals with a problem that he is always targeted by the police. The reason why Luis is targeted by the police is because he is in a gang, which makes Luis become a bad influence to others. For example, “It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes on Garvey Boulevard who took our money, all smudged into one.

Everybody has their own methods for writing; however, I believe there is always room for improvement. Chapter 3 in Everyone’s an Author has shown me that writing involves processes that need to be mastered through constant practice. It also revealed helpful tips on how to develop writing processes that can help write effective papers.

In the last decades, narco trafficking and organized crime had emerged as the main security threats in Latin America. Deviant globalization increase their power by establishing connections with similar organizations in other parts of the world, like cocaine distribution networks, for example. This perceived danger increases the pressure on the governments for effective solutions, and some of them consider that these problems had overwhelmed the capabilities of the local police. Consequently, the intervention of military forces would be necessary to secure the stability of the countries. However, the use of force as the only solution is the outcome of a misunderstanding of the root causes that generates them. This paper presents the research for a general pattern in the region that is helpful to understand how the civil society perceives the failures of governance and how the networks of illegal activities exploit this perception.

The article assignment requirements are to help everyone relate what we are learning to what is now happening in the real world.  Reviewing a current article will allow us to learn what we may face in our future jobs once we graduate.  Open ended questions help start discussion between classmates and ongoing participation.  Avoidance of broad topics assists everyone to stay on the same track during the discussion. Using a broad topic, will cause mini discussions on various topics instead of an in-depth discussion.  Opinionated questions should be avoided to ensure the discussion is based on factual details.

This paper seeks to analyze the history of the narcocorrido in Mexico, their growth in popularity, and explore the reach that the ballads may have on the recruitment of individuals into drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations in the regions. Additionally, this paper seeks to discover whether narcocorridos offer any source of intelligence for law enforcement officers and if so, how the officers can use the information to disrupt criminal the

The reader sympathizes with Enrique as he is making his seventh attempt to reach his mother. It is this small glimmer of hope that propels him through his treacherous journey all though he, yet again, fails. The author uses “pathos,” the emotional appeal, heavily throughout this chapter in order to grab the audience’s attention. She wants the reader to empathize with Enrique, an archetypal martyr with heroic behavior. The narrator describes the cruelty and suffering of the gangsters, bandits, “la migra” and others. “Enrique thinks of his mother…she will never know what happened.”(Nazario) Nazario uses stream-of-consciousness reflections such as this to cause the reader to subsequently reflect on their own families, and how one would react to this circumstance. Although Nazario uses pathetic writing, she does not make a fully-pathos driven argument such as that of Leslie Marmon Silko’s “The Border Patrol State.” In fact, Enrique’s Journey is written in exposition mode with anecdotes within narratives, which purports as journalistic rather than objective, or biased, writing. It is through this writing style that Nazario builds her credibility, or “ethos.” The exposition mode lays out the effects throughout Enrique’s path as well as brings extent of the hazards to fruition for the

to test their fate, another quickly emerging option was to join the underground drug trafficking market. The changing climate in the drug trafficking world did not go without having any effect on the corridos, of course.

The Mafia way of life may seem like a romantic updated version of the western movie played out on the streets of the big cities where the good guys and the wise guys who share the same instincts and values do battle before an enthralled public but it is actually very different. The Mafia is really just a group of uneducated thugs making money by victimizing the public. Initially, the Mafia was setup as a prominent supplier of bootlegged liquor, but it has spread into many different areas of crime. During this research paper I will discuss three aspects of the Mafia which are crime, structure and decline in leadership.

The Mexican Mafia, or “La Eme”, as they refer to themselves, is one of the most powerful and influential organized crime gangs in the United States. The organization has risen through the decades of mass gang wars and violence to become the power it is today. Their control is limitless and they have ventured far beyond the expectations of what was thought that gangs were capable of. They have infiltrated governments and manipulated politics. They have taken over neighborhoods and attempted to ethnically cleanse them. Innocent people have become caught up in the affairs of La Eme throughout its history and many have faced violence and death at their hands. This paper is a continual of the case analysis of the Mexican Mafia and will attempt to provide explanations for some of the crimes committed by this organization. Researching gangs and organized crime is important because of their large influence and control over many aspects of daily life. The significance of attempting to provide causations of their crimes can better provide the criminal justice system a clearer understanding of problems that lead to gang members committing crimes on behalf of the organization. A clearer understanding of problems can help the system to provide solutions to combat situations that inhibit crimes.

Slavery and slave trade refers to the exchange of human being especially the black for goods. The trade took place across the transatlantic ocean in the 17th century. The ships trading the slaves would sail from Europe carrying goods to West Africa. In West Africa, the goods were exchanged for slaves who were captured by the African traders. The traders from Europe found it easier to work with African intermediaries who raided the African settlements from the coast of Africa and brought the energetic young people to be sold as slaves (Quirk). The paper will focus on the issues of slave trade and slavery, and the following experts of personal narratives will be used. Firstly, the paper will analyze the personal narrative by John Barbot in which he describes the state of slavery in Africa. Secondly, there will be the analysis of the narrative by Ayub Suleiman Diallo, in which he recall how he was captured and taken to slavery. Thirdly, the paper will use the narrative by young Olaudah Equiano, who remembers how he was kidnapped into slavery. Lastly the analysis on kidnapping story by venture Smith while at the age of six will be used in the paper.

Analysis (350 words) The short story, “Behind Closed Doors”, is about a young girl who is tricked into getting trafficked by being given the incentive of earning money for her sick father's treatment. It vividly describes the betrayal by the protagonist's uncle in entering her into this sick human trafficking trade. Her uncle's communicative behavior and registers show that at times bad things must be done for a good reason.

Human trafficking and migration are declared as a social theme because its supplementary depicted to the human rights, where the human capacity is used. The correlation of smugglers and traffickers avail illegal migration, where a person/victim could be given in the hands of traffickers through smugglers.

Drug cartels have grown and expanded throughout the interior and exterior of states for many years. The way drugs started to be introduced to Mexico, Colombia, and other places around the world was believed to be a myth. It was a tale that was known by many through storytelling, which over the years turned into an actual realistic issue. One of the most known cartels that existed for a long time was The Medellin Cartel. It became a subculture of its own, creating a world full of violence, women, money, firearms, death but most importantly power and fear. Located in Colombia this brutal subculture will show how they become one of the wealthiest subculture in the world surpassing even its own country’s riches.

The data indicates that students need instruction in finding the main idea and the supporting details of an article. Several students attempted to write the main idea, but only two students had it partially correct. Twelve students identified one details, six student identified two details, and two students identified three correct details.