The Mexico massacre of 72 migrants reveals how stronger police enforcement in the Mexico drug war is pushing criminal gangs into side businesses such as extortion, kidnapping, and human trafficking.Mexico Massacre: How the Drug War Is Pushing Cartels into Human Trafficking...
drug trafficking organizations can generate more profit in a shorter amount of time. While extremely hazardous to make, most meth found in the US today comes from drug cartels to the south. Border patrol agents reportedly seize 10 to 20 times more meth ...
The powerful and deadly synthetic drug fentanyl was at the forefront of an alarming spike in US overdose deaths in 2021. Mexican Cartels, the main supplier of fentanyl to the US market, rely heavily on China’s severely underregulated chemical production industry for the chemicals needed to creat...
Briefing: How Mexico is waging war on drug cartels B Leyva 被引量: 1发表: 2009年 Rethinking insurgency: criminality, spirituality, and societal warfare in the Americas Bunker, ed., Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War, London, UK: Routledge, 2013,...
politics. Whether for its role in supporting drug cartels, its tendency to worsen the impact of unbalanced drug laws, or simply its position in the center of the drug legalization movement, the sticky icky has become a rather sticky wicket. Although banned by the U.S. government in 1937, ...
Several drug cartels fight each other for territory, with the goal of controlling as many trafficking corridors to the United States as possible. The drug war, not to be confused with the war on drugs in which governments try to stop the drug trafficking organizations, has been going on for...
Earlier this year,Interpol released a reportshowing that mafias, cartels and gangs in Europe are using fruit companies, hotels and other legal businesses as fronts to make huge profits. According to the agency, hundreds of criminal networks are able to infiltrate the legal economy to hide their ...
The ongoing crime tarnishes Juarez’s reputation, but that’s just the grim reality of border cities controlled by powerful cartels. Juarez is controlled by three cartels: Juárez cartel, Sinaloa cartel, and Jalisco New Generation cartel. These cartels focus primarily on drug trafficking, but their...
court; Paola Ramos travels from drug labs in Mexico to Oregon, the state with the highest percentage of meth addiction in the U.S., to understand how the cartels’ newest, cheapest and most potent form of meth, known as “Supermeth”, is fueling an overwhelming national mental health ...
its profits rather than setting prices by supply and demand. Some types of firms are considerednatural monopoliesbecause there's a significant first-mover advantage that discourages competitors from entering the market. Other monopolies may be established through government actions or bycartelssuch as...