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    Mexican Drug Cartels

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    The battle sparked up when former president, Felipe Calderon declared war against the cartels in December 11, 2006. This situation ignited a war that since then it has caused about 60,000 total deaths by these actions “Mexico is making progress in its fight against powerful drug cartels and they are becoming weaker as the crime bosses are killed or jailed

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    It Or Pulp Fiction?

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    Fact or pulp fiction? For more than a decade, people have said that the brothers from the Motor City had forged an alliance with the Mexican Cartels. Further, there are accusations that they were “Kingpins.” How many kingpins exist at any given time? If the brothers from the Motor City were Kingpins, then who is Larry Hoover (Larry Vacuum), Christopher 'Dudus ' Coke (Chris the Soft Drink) Craig Race Car (Racecar Driver), Toree D. Sims (Sim Card), David “Super Dave” Warren (Super Bowl), Jerry

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    Drug Trafficking

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    international conflict that is being fought daily. There are many aspects of the drug war from Mexico and other Latin American states which have effects on United States policy as well as policies from other countries that participate in the global suppression of illegal drugs. It can be hard to differentiate between conflict and issue in regards to Latin America’s drug war and International Relations. The Mexican drug war is a global issue because it interferes with the states ability to collaborate

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    In 2006, last Mexican President Felipe Calderon proposed an initiative, in partnership with the United States, wanting to combat the cartels with military force, which significantly escalated violence and claimed thousands of lives, including civilians. Mexico’s drug war has turned violent in recent years, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Law enforcement attempts to put cartels out

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    more notorious and dangerous the Narcocultura movement. Mexico in conjunction with United States had been fighting to end with the drug trafficking war. The lack of education, the poverty, the corruption and the unrestricted demand for drug in the United States, have made Mexico the center of one of the world’s most sophisticated drug system Mexican nation is in crisis because the continuance of violence, due to the drug trafficking movement. In Mexico is believed that there are approximately

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    Introduction Since 2011, the Freedom House has classified Mexico as a purple, or a “not free” country in its annual Freedom of the Press report. The upraise of violence in the country, stemmed from its war against drugs, has threatened Mexico’s freedom of expression and practice of journalism, undermining the foundations of the country’s democracy. During the last 12 years, 82 journalists have been murdered, 18 have disappeared and there have been 33 attacks on media outlets according to the National

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    The Mexican Cartel on a Global scale The Mexican drug cartel is a major actor on the world scene. Even though it is not seen this way by the general public, those who pay attention know how far their reach is. The Mexican cartel has expanded. There seems to be no sign of them slowing. They have the perfect storm of money, military backing, political connections and Public intimidation. Their empire is growing by the minute. Unfortunately most people have not given these ruthless criminals the attention

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    special memorial reference is included in the book. Winslow is considered to depict the theme of raw violence so as to raise the audience’s awareness of the real violence taking place in Mexico and the war on drugs. Therefore, it is rightfully said that The Cartel is a pure novelization of the Mexican-American reality. Because of this relative obscurity, many readers might come to believe that most of the events in this book were "created and invented" by the author. They would be wrong - most of the

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    American Expansionism The 1840s and 1890s saw an expansion of American territory, as a result of several economic, political, and cultural factors. In both cases of American expansionism, the Americans believed that we must expand our borders in order to keep the country running upright. Also, the Americans believed that the United State, being one of the strongest of the nations, had a need to become even stronger. This is shown in the "manifest destiny" of the 1840's. Apart from the similarities

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    LESSON 9 - Westward Movement Objectives: Identify and understand how advances in technology aided the American Expansion Identify and understand what drove American Expansion westward Identify various foreign and domestic groups who were important in America's Expansion Identify and understand the conflict over settling Texas Technology's Influence on America's Growth The economy of the United States changing rapidly. By the 1850s, more people were buying and selling goods

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