How a Trump victory could be good for Mexican drug cartelsEames Yates
While other countries also face the drug problem, the United States has spent the most money and law enforcement; however, its effectiveness is questionable. Consequently, now there is a great amount of drugs coming from Mexico’s borderline into the United States. The drug cartels have become ...
“cook” times are longer,meth labsand 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...
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, ...
an array of border and peace activists to sign a ‘national pact’ making six demands of PresidentFelipe Calderon. These include a demilitarization of the effort against Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, placing more emphasis on education reform and targeting money laundering and entrenched corruption...
It illustrates how informal social rules can function as a far more powerful system to govern business conduct then formal legal rules (cf. Macaulay 1963). This also facilitates cartel stability, and makes internal punishment or retaliation less likely or irrelevant. However, cartelists do monitor ...
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 ...
Open Document Pablo Escobar was not a man to mess around with. As a kid he was just a petty car thief with big dreams, but rose to be one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men. He could remove anyone standing in his path in the blink of an eye. “If a politician, ju...
The murder rate has almost tripled to about 22 per 100,000 inhabitants from just over eight when Mr Calderón declared an all-out offensive against the country’s drug cartels at the end of 2006. The war, which has claimed at least 55,000 lives over the past six years, has dominated ...