Tackling The War On Drugs ( Cd ) And Combating Transnational Crime Organizations

The use of drugs was widespread. With drugs cheap and available, men were constantly getting drunk and high on drugs. Felix said, that they needed something to mask the loneliness and the pain they were suffering in war. Eventually, it became so prevalent that the authorities gave up on trying to control it. He said that the CIA was responsible for bringing massive amounts of drugs into the country. I did not know that until he told me. So it’s good to know that now. He also said that the CIA was bringing drugs into the United States and taking all those drugs into the poorest neighborhoods. That is why there were many crimes committed due to

Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the

The following publication is rife with manipulation and corruption of Mexico 's highest regarded political positions and jurisdictions. Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado officially declared drug trafficking a national security threat in early 1988. The United Nations estimate that 70% of the drugs flowing into the United States comes directly from Mexican drug trafficking cartels. Mexican cartels rely heavily on bribes and corruption as a means to infiltrate the Mexican political system. To the Mexican cartels, bribes and corruption is viewed as nothing more than, "the cost of doing business". A study by the National Autonomous University in Mexico City found that

The “War on drugs” has shaped various aspects of public and criminal justice policy. The linkage between drug use and crime has been unaddressed problem over the past decades. New laws have been passed to deter drug involvement and increase penalties for drug related crime. The war on drugs has increase many court room dockets and higher incarceration rates. This war has caused a lot of disparity in communities because “Crack” was the poor man’s drug and due to the get tough tactics that the government was trying to enforce throughout this time cause the African American’s were hit harder with convictions due to the use of crack and causes more incarceration rates. Many would believe that the US has benefited from the war on drugs because our

The United States has a long history of intervention in the affairs of one it’s southern neighbor, Latin America. The war on drugs has been no exception. An investigation of US relations with Latin America in the period from 1820 to 1960, reveals the war on drugs to be a convenient extension of an almost 200 year-old policy. This investigation focuses on the commercial and political objectives of the US in fighting a war on drugs in Latin America. These objectives explain why the failing drug policy persisted despite its overwhelming failure to decrease drug production or trafficking. These objectives also explain why the US has recently exchanged a war on drugs for the war on

The United States of America has every right to protect its citizens from drugs and the crime and social problems that follow them. Since September 11, 2001, the United States has fought a war against terrorist organizations worldwide. America spends 64 billion dollars annually on illicit drugs---and much of this money funds the same terrorist groups who threaten America (International 24). If America hopes to defeat her enemies, the terrorists, then she must shut down illegal drug operations. Drugs fund terrorism. Drugs and terrorists seem to be symbiotic at times—one problem surviving because of the other. Before

“The drug world organization is fundamentally gendered” (Anderson 2005). Anderson has continuously insisted that the illicit drug world, based on a patriarchally organized hierarchy where men continue to dominate, is also one that cannot exist without women's empowerment and agency. It is then critical to concentrate on the complex interplay between men and women. There are numerous ways in which women on the border between the United States and Mexico become involved in crime and the illicit drug economy. These roles are complex and contradictory. While drug smuggling and other forms of female involvement in crime on the U.S.-Mexico border often lead to victimization, neglect, and abuse, manipulation of these roles can serve as a vehicle for female empowerment and liberation from male control.

While conducting research on the different drugs and gangs in our country, and other countries around the world, I found out a lot of interesting facts. I found several articles and books that discussed the history of gangs and the different drugs that are killing various communities in this country and other countries, such as South America. The authors of these articles have done a tremendous amount of

(Buehring) One reason that the United States’ “War on Drugs” hurt Latin and South American countries was that it strengthened alliances between rural coca farmers, particularly in Peru, and the drug cartels that generated money for them against local and American governments, who attacked and destroyed the farmers’ way of making money, coca. At the heart of the “War on Drugs” was cocaine. The cocaine business was and still is Latin America’s multinational industry, and ever since its’ establishment, Peru has supplied the raw coca leaves and paste for the entire continent. This made it a very important place for the guerilla groups, who distributed and profited off of the cocaine, as much as it did the US and Peruvian governments, who sought

The distribution and the export of drugs to the countries that are in war need to stop to end the warfare. Children who join the armed groups are given drugs like cocaine, palm wine, brown brown (cocaine mixed with gunpowder), and marijuana in order to make them strong, give them courage to go and fight at the front and have no sympathy for the opponent. If the distribution of any types of drugs to armed groups is stopped then no children has to go through the abuse or threat of getting killed if they refuse to take the drug.

In this research paper I will discuss one transnational crime, and compare the contrast of two nations for their definition of the crime rate, and tools used to measure the crime. I will give each country’s legal tradition and their major influences on crime definition, rate, and measurement. In this assignment I will analyze the extent to which crime statistics collected in different nations can adequately be compared.

There are several significant planning considerations the DOD must identify and incorporate when providing support to domestic law enforcement agencies during counterdrug operations. Firstly, DOD support to counterdrug operations is part of a whole of government effort to eliminate the transport and transfer of illegal drugs into the US. DOD is the lead federal agency for the detection and monitoring (D&M) of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs into the US as outlined in the National Defense Authorization Acts of 1990 and 1991. The desired end result of D&M is the interdiction and apprehension by Law Enforcement Agency (LEA). DOD assists partner nations (PN) in counter drug (CD) operations, only when specifically requested by LEA and

According to Michelle Alexander, why and how has the “war on drugs” developed over the last 40 years? What are the main political and economic factors that led to the war on drugs, and what are the main political and economic factors that shaped it as it developed over the last four decades? Draw on material from the Foner textbook chapters 25 through 28 to supplement Alexander’s discussion of the political and economic context.

“Imagine living in a place where you can kill anyone you wish and nothing happens except that they fall dead” (Morris 216). With drug trafficking organizations people in Mexico live in a world where this is part of their everyday lives. More than 16,600 deaths were attributed to drug trafficking in 2011 (Schedler 6). People live in a world like the Wild West where there seems to be no social control. This is a problem because innocent people are losing their lives over something that they can not control. Citizens throughout Mexico have learned to live with the consequences of organized crime caused by the Mexican drug cartels in their day to day lives.

The United States has had a long-standing policy of intervening in the affairs of other nations when the country has thought it within its best interests to do so. Since the 1970’s the United States has tried to impose its will on other nations to combat the most pressing political enemy of the day often linking the war on drugs to the matter to stoke support both domestically and abroad. In the times of the Cold War, this enemy was communism and the government tried to make the connection of the “Red Dope Menace” insinuating drug links with China, Castro’s Cuba, and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. However, as the world has evolved and communism’s