El Salvador Suicide

In 1977, the Guerilla, a group of rebels, started a wave of violence in El Salvador which included violating human rights and causing terror all over the country. Most of the political, social and economic problems in El Salvador arose once the people started fighting against the corrupt government. By 1980, the civil war erupted and the rebels took over the country with brute force. Finally in 1992, a treaty arranged between the rebels, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front referred to as the FMLN, and the government, whose aim was to hinder the violence in the country, only made violence more prevalent. El Salvador’s civil war left problems that El Salvador cannot solve alone, which explains why it needs an international community to

The smuggling of drugs has been a part of the society for over a century in most parts of the world. This form of business has flourished mostly in the developed countries such as the United States of America, where the demand for drugs is high while there is no or very small production in the country. The production in the countries where drugs such as cocaine, heroin, cannabis, etc are supplied is banned mostly under the respective local laws, and therefore the drug trafficking business is used to bring in the supply in these countries as these markets have the potential of earning the drug business cartels huge amounts of money.

Criminal organizations operating from South America smuggle cocaine and heroin into the U.S. via a number of routes.

It is no secret that drugs are prevalent in every nation in the world. However, how do these illegal drugs move throughout the world? Drug traffickers have gotten very creative in the methods they use to transport drugs across state line and country’s borders. Major drug cartels of Mexico recruit children with the promises of fast easy money and little risk of detection by police. They use children for several reasons; they are less suspicious, can travel on planes without adults, they create a “family” look so no attention is drawn to a group. What the children do not know is they are expendable to the cartel, and if the transport does not go according to plan, their lives are on the line.

In addition to gaining and keeping control is through fear and chaos. a recent uncovered discovery is how gangs also interfere with  local governments trying to gain power. The survey shows that it has not gone unnoticed by Salvadorans, who tend to blame their government for not getting the peace and order to the people. The  Police Chief Howard Cotto of El salvador has known gangs are continuing efforts to interfere with local politics ahead of the country's upcoming elections that is happening in March of next year.  Cotto explained that gangs offer help secure votes for a running candidates to help bring down levels of insecurity  in exchange for benefits such as weapons, protection, and providing jobs for the gangs for leverage.

El Salvador now known as the Republic of El Salvador is a small and densely populated country located in Pacific Coast of Central America. The major issue in was the coffee which was a very profitable business in El Salvador providing 95% of the country’s income. Sadly a very small percentage of population was making use out of it (around 2%).This led to the conflict between the classes. Social American Centralist party led the poor people against the government regarding this injustice. The civil war on El Salvador has lasted for more than a century leaving for about 80,000 people dead, refuges leaving the country and destruction of infrastructure and economy due to the armed conflict. Finally The Chapultepec Peace Accords of January

In the drug world, there are a great number of networks. Trafficking of drugs is a very serious operation and there is a lot of money involved inside this system. With the millions of individuals that use drugs, it would prove to very difficult to meet the demands without people trafficking (4). Despite their reason for taking drugs, there is always illegal substances on the market. Users are willing to spend well above the price for these substances (2). Areas in Asia and South America have a vast amount of resources and many people make their living off of the drug industry. Coca plants are grown all around the country.

Heroin is one of the most dangerous highly addictive drugs on the black market today. A board member of the National Institute of Health estimated that there are currently about 600,000 heroin addicts in the U.S. alone. Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. During World War II, a German chemist, Aschenbrenner, synthesized methadone and named it Dolophine, after Adolph Hitler (Fields, 2013 p.76). Chemist first isolated morphine in the early nineteenth century. During the Civil War, doctors widely used morphine in injectable form, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian opium poppy plant. It usually appears as a white or brown powder or as a sticky black substance and has been a part of the drug culture for addicts over many years. Heroin is an opiate or a downer that made from the resin taken from the seed pod of the poppy plant. The resin processed in a variety of ways resulting in the final product known as heroin. The processing method determines the appearance of heroin as it has seen on the street. Black tar heroin looks like tootsie roll candy or dark caramel and being packaged in small pieces of aluminum foil, tightly wrapped in plastic or cigarette packages. There is also a form that is black and sticky known on the streets as "black tar heroin.” (NIH 2014).

The handling of drugs is not safe, whether it is the back alley deals, or the people killed in drug heists. Since 2006 more than seventy thousand people have been estimated to have died in the drug war. This all comes from the lack of supervision in handling of drugs with their distribution, and use. Problems most people illegal drug users face are the quality of the drugs they purchase. Often people lace drugs with other ingredients to either improve or alter their effects. Sometimes suppliers lace drugs with substitute products to spread out into more units

West Africa’s primary operational appeal to traffickers is not only from its geography, but through its low standards of governance, low levels of law enforcement capacity, and high rates of corruption. Latin American traffickers recently relocated a share of their wholesale distribution from the Western Hemisphere to West Africa, with the “sub-region moving from being merely a short-term transit point to becoming a storage and staging area for wholesale repackaging, re-routing and resale of drugs” (David E. Brown,

Profiles of high-level drug smugglers and offenders and from the age range of 20-69 (p.72-77).

Although illegal in most states, marijuana remains a popular substance and it does not influence the crisis prevention professionals as the same level as harder drugs, it continue to represent a problem. The use of “pot” often finds the user lethargic, mellow, and prolonged use of the substance can lead to memory gaps and a lack of productivity. At the extreme end of substances is the one considered the most addictive and dangerous to the human body, heroin. It is problematic at a number of levels. For example, heroin is administered mostly by injection. Therefore, it is one of the most common ways the HIV virus is transmitted when not through sexual contact. Another issue is there is little to no quality control so its potency is not regulated

In order to solve these problems we must tackle the issue with a transnational point of view to find a way to connect the progress of the United States and transfer that progress to El Salvador. In order to see progress we must establish progressive reduction programs. One of the proposed ideas would be similar to the Pescadores. The Pescadores has been abel to connect small communities in the United States to small communities in El Salvador and bring educational programs, remittances and progress. Taking this similar idea, we can create a similar system for the gang and crime reduction that used here and transfer that to El Salvador. This idea would include prosecution of crimes, patrolling of cops within streets and awareness within the

Today, unfortunately, was another scary day for my little town of El Congo, a little town thirty-five miles west of the capital, San Salvador in case you didn’t know. There were many gangs in the streets threatening people, even random civilians. There is a lot of gang violence throughout El Salvador especially near the capital. There is a record high death rate right now! The homicide rate in the country of El Salvador is one hundred and three people per every one hundred thousand people in a population of 6.4 million making my country the most violent country in the world. All of this violence started because a truce fell flat between two gangs.

According to the United Nations office dealing with drugs and crime, the term drug smuggling is defined as an illegal trade encompassing manufacturing, cultivation, sale and distribution of illegal substances. Regardless of the efforts put by the government to curb it, drug smuggling is increasingly becoming prevalent in various countries including the United States as well as other developed countries. For instance, the government of the United States spent over two trillion dollars in the past fifty years trying to curb the growing problem (United Nations, 2009).