In 1995, top Cali cartel members were captured and arrested. A year later, all of the Cali kingpins were behind bars. El Chapo, Los Zetas and Mexican Drug Cartels By the mid-1980s, the U.S.-Mexican border became the main transport route for cocaine, marijuana and other drugs into the...
Mexican citizens. In light of the PRI’s history of allegedly making deals with drug cartels, Peña Nieto explicitly promised not to do the same. Given that the PRI did not win an outright majority in the legislature, it remained to be seen just how easily he would be able toimplement...
It was during this speech that President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency. The war on drugs has now spanned across five decades and there is no end in sight. With America’s continued consumption of recreational drugs, the cartels will continue to net $30 billion a year–further fue...
Post WWII and the Emergence of Major International Drug Trafficking- This era marks the growth of drug trafficking cartels, the heavily funded, militarized war on drugs and an explosion in recreational drug use in the 1960s. "One important argument we make is that often the war on drugs has ...
Meticulously researched, the book traces its roots to the early 2010s, when the journalist was reporting on Mexican drug cartels for theNew York Timesmagazine. As Keefe tells the LondonTimes, he realized that 25 percent of the revenue generated by OxyContin, the most popular pill pushed by Sac...
During the 1970s and 1980s, Colombia was plagued by the twin evils of drug trafficking and revolutionaries. In Medellín, legendary drug lordPablo Escobarwas by far the most powerful man in the country, running a billion-dollar industry. He had rivals in the Cali Cartel, however, and Bogotá...
opposition to black voting was couched in the rawest of racist terms, accompanying terrorism, murder, poll taxes, and other forms of suppression to roll back the enfranchisement gained during Reconstruction. By 1901, when Jim Crow segregation had consolidated its grip on the South, an influential...
That reflects another question that is widely voiced any time US officials comment on or act against Mexico's drug cartels: Why doesn't the US do more to dismantle its own drug-trafficking organizations? "It's not that {Mexican} people are anxious to defend bankers, but at the same time...
Its origins can be traced to the Guadalajara cartel, which was one of Mexico’s largest crime organizations in the early 1980s. However, after the cartel was involved in the 1985 torture and murder of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, U.S. and Mexican forces cracked down on the syndicate,...
bloggers and others who speak out against them. They have elaborate recruitment strategies targeting young adults to join their cartel groups. They have successfully branded the wordnarco, and the word has become part of Mexican culture. There is music, television shows, literature, beverages, food...