Drug cartel

Most illegal drugs are produced outside and brought to the U.S. for a number of reasons: - Strong law enforcement and criminal justice system in the U.S. has resources to control & prevent such activity; - Equipment and labor are cheaper elsewhere. It is cheaper to produce drugs and have them shipped to the U.S.; - Certain ingredients require appropriate climate to grow, for instance, opium poppy, a base ingredient of heroin grows in Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru have

Battling Mexican Drug Cartels Introduction What are federal law enforcement agencies doing to combat the powerful Mexican drug cartels that are making billions of dollars smuggling drugs into the U.S.? This paper focuses on the response that U.S. officials and law enforcement agencies have made to attempt to slow the flow of dangerous drugs across the border, and to cut into the leadership of the cartels. Mexico is Awash in Blood from the Cartels How bad is the violence in Mexico? An article

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

homeland. For example, Mexico and most central and South America countries unfortunately have a poor economic, environmental and life is not easy to live there. These countries also still engaged in a war with various reasons. Especially; Mexican drug cartels which kills more than 80,000 people in every year. Therefore, United States being the main country that so many immigrants attract as they try to cross the border illegally. As they looking a place that provides freedom of speech and religion,

From the Cold War to more recent struggles with domestic guerilla groups and drug cartels, Colombia has not had a time of peace since they became independent nearly 200 years ago. None of these conflicts have resolved peacefully. They were usually caused by difference in culture or beliefs. Corruption within their own government has left Colombia without legitimate authority; the citizens have nobody to trust, be helped by, or be defended by. Colombia has the potential to institute a stable and effective

Cynthia sighed deeply as the cool breeze smacked her face. She fumbled the keys in her hand before finally jamming it into the lock, twisting it so it can unlock. She entered her two bedroom condo while still thinking about her day. Mr. West had her doing many things that made her start to reconsider the job, even though it was temporary. I don’t even know how anybody can work with a person like him. He is beyond rude and arrogant. One thing that she has noticed about Kingsley is that she is the

Economics, a Cartel is an agreement between competing firms to control prices or exclude entry of a new competitor in a market. It is a formal organization of sellers or buyers that agree to fix selling prices, purchase prices, or reduce production using a variety of tactics. Cartels usually arise in an oligopolistic industry, where the number of sellers are small or sales are highly concentrated, and the products being traded are usually “Commodities. Distinguishing a private cartel from a public

Some of the changes of corridos can be credited to the different culture we live in now. Corridos in the past have been about the Mexican-American War, but most recently corridos began to be about life struggles such as immigration and the violent drug war. While the topics of corridos have changed over the years, corridos keep a familiar format with focusing on key issues of oppression, daily life, and socially relevant events. In addition, corridos may help spread attention to events going around

HSBC HSBC is the world’s fourth largest bank by total assets. The bank has a total asset amount of 2.67 trillion U.S. dollars. HSBC’s headquarters is located in London, United Kingdom. They are a British multinational banking and financial service. The company was first established in 1865 as The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and was first incorporated in 1866. Finally, the company was established as its present form in 1991 as HSBC Holdings plc. The bank currently serves in 71 countries with about

Journiette August 31, 2007 Many companies operate under a monopoly which gives them an edge or a corner on the market. In this discussion we will focus on the differences between a monopoly, oligopoly, and a cartel. We will also look at what game theory is and its affect on monopolies and cartels and the welfare affect of each of the above mentioned. A monopoly is defined as, "sole control of a particular line of goods or services in a given market or the means to control distribution and price."(Webster