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    Drug Trade In Colombia

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    In 1970’s, the Colombian poor farmers began planting Marijuana in purpose of an alternative to legal crops to survive producing. In the 1970’s the Colombian organized crime had been accelerated when criminal groups tried to cash in on the obsession for cocaine in the United States by importing coca leaf from Bolivia and Peru into cocaine hydrochloride (HCL) then trafficking it to the United States. (InSight Crime, n.d.). During the time of Pablo Escobar in 1980’s the first major cocaine cartels emerged

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    The inherent goal of the police is to ensure the security of the community. As the population changes so must the police. This reactive response by the police, allows for a predictive analysis on how the police will evolve, if at all, in the future. This paper will briefly examine the predictive demographics of Australia including increase in the population and crime as justification for a stronger police force in the next 20 years. These factors argue, from the perspective of the police, that a

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    democratic type of regime. Despite these differences, the three documents have depicted some homogeneous attributes; for instance, it is evidently clear that both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were vigorous adherents of paramilitary forces. Both bellwethers made utilization of paramilitary forces to exercise their potencies amongst the people that they ruled. Another major homogeneous attribute that has been depicted is that Mussolini and Hitler pursued a mundane goal of fighting America. It is withal

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    Mexican Drug War Essay

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    trafficking immediately after training at the School of the Americas. The modus operandi of the Zetas is to recruit individuals that have received military training. In fact, some other Zetas’ founders were from another SOA trained right-wing paramilitary group in Guatemala, known as

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    Are we capable, as paramilitary organizations, of defining ourselves by a concept of shared power and responsibility in order to provide quality development of our people, and quality service to our community? Servant leadership, as a concept, lends itself to the healthy growth

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    Militarization Of Police

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    Under the Regan and Bush administration and their war on drugs, the military became heavily involved in the drug law enforcement (Kraska 282). The police paramilitary units raided civilian’s private residences in order to control the drug epidemic (Kraska 284). In his article, Peter B. Kraska defines militarism and militarization and differentiates between the two, in short, he defines militarism as an ideology

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    Violence In La Guerrilla

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    Tairona are finding themselves increasingly caught up in the chaos of Colombia's war. La Guerrilla is recruiting from among the young, which they denied, and disaffected of the tribes while paramilitary groups punish them with extreme violence. Recent tales of retaliatory dismemberment and cannibalism in paramilitary-controlled areas has kept indigenous groups from entering the Lost City. Unfortunately, indigenous people are getting involve in violence without having nothing to do with it. It has to

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    Essay about Killer Coke

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    on other companies, such as Nike, and their sweatshops. While relevant in the sense that other companies don’t always monitor and sometimes cover up working conditions in other countries, the underlying case revolves around the brutality of the paramilitary forces in Colombia and whether Coke was complicit in the murders. The remaining materials that could have been omitted were the history of Colombia and the discussion of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. While providing a brief view in

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    republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners, and ultimately resulted in a hunger strike. On 27 October 1980, mainly IRA members began this hunger strike to restore political status for paramilitary prisoners by securing what were known as the "Five Demands". The government appeared to grant the prisoners' their five demands, however in 1981 it became clear that

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    Personal Observation

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    daily observation mission we were heading back to the city of Pristina in Kosovo. We noticed a very nice hillside house smoking and stopped to observe. Two paramilitary serbians ran from the property with two large cans as the house became engulfed in flames. They entered their vehicles and left the area. Our observation was two paramilitary soldiers burned down the albanian land owners property. The russian report was two serbian officers ran to the house to help any victoms, was unable to extinguixh

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