... The prospect then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be significantly reduced in a small amount of time through federal The amount has been enormous in times of lives, our money and the welfare of countless Americans, particularly the poor and less educated. By most accounts, the gains from the war have been modest at best. Identity one drug cartel, and explain The Zetas began out as an enforcer gang for the Gulf Cartel predominantly composed up of former Special Forces operatives. Their military education and uncontrolled cruelty showed an underworld match changer, with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) relating them as possibly "the most technologically...
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...Child Trafficking Herman noble University of Alabama at Birmingham May 7 2012 Human trafficking has become an international problem that has developed into a world social issue. There are many forms of human trafficking such as child trafficking, abduction, and laundering. This is a major problem because human trafficking is illegal and a violation of human rights. Nevertheless, this repulsive act is continuously committed. Poverty, greed, corruption, supply and demand, is the components of human trafficking. Some have argued and defined human trafficking as the removing of any orphan from their culture and placing them in an unrelated different environment. Nevertheless, it is the poor non-educated families from developing or sending nations that suffer the most. Kenya and other nations have been affected by human trafficking in one way or another, while the United State avoids legal responsibility and accountability in such matters. Kenya’s issue is child abduction. This type of human trafficking is increasing around the world. Children are abducted and forced to fight in armies. The majority of the world’s conflict is fought by children. Healy (2008) states: Children are recruited primarily because they are easily to control and indoctrinate…Some are abducted or conscribed by force;…Girls are abducted into armies, some to serve as soldiers, others for sex, and often both(p.96). Bondo district, Kenya is characterized by high levels of poverty, and a HIV prevalence...
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...Introduction Honduras is part of Central America; it is located between Guatemala and Nicaragua, and El Salvador is right next to Honduras. Guatemala is north of Honduras, Nicaragua is south of Honduras, El Salvador is west of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea is located southeast of Honduras. The capital of Honduras is Tegucigalpa. The official language of Honduras is Spanish. The most popular sport is football, but we in America referred to it as soccer. People that originated from Honduras are known as Honduran. The 2007 census shows that there are approximately 7.5 million people inhabiting Honduras, but the CIA World FactBook estimate the population to be around 8.6 million as of 2013. The majority of their population is between 0-14 years (34.8%) and 25-54 years (35.3%). Meaning that the median age is roughly about 22 years old. About 52% of the population lives in an urban area. The life expectancy is 70.9 years. Honduras’ ethnic groups consist of mestizo or mixed Amerindian and European, Amerindian, black and white. The majority of their population is part of the mestizo ethnic group – 90%. The dominant religion is Roman Catholic; 97% of the population is Roman Catholic and other 3% is Protestant. As of 2008, 18.4% adults fall in the category of being obese. As 2011, 85.1% of the population...
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...Arms Trafficking between the United States and Mexico: The Drug Trafficking Nexus Transnational Crime and Globalization By: Katrina T. Mason May 2, 2008 The United States is quite known for their proactive stances on the “War on Drugs”, “War on Terror”, and “War in Iraq”. Some view them as the international police and others view them as the international fiend, but it is in no doubt that the United States takes a very active stance in fighting what they believe is evil and wrong within the world. This is increasingly true for the evils that occur within its own borders such as the continued drug epidemic, domestic violence, child abuse, poverty, gangs, and prostitution (with the exception of Nevada). Unfortunately though, the United States’ stance on legal activities crossing from their own governance into neighboring states where the activity is illegal is not held with the same level of concern or dedication. A primary example of this double standard can be seen on the Mexican-United States border. This is not in reference to the debris from the giant wall being built on the Mexican border falling to the southern side, the young Americans fleeing across the borders to intoxicate themselves, or even the revolution of McDonalds springing up in towns throughout Mexico; but instead to the small arms and light weapons trafficking continually flowing down from the border states into Mexico causing alarming murder rates, economical...
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...Every day, young children are being taken and becoming victims of sex trafficking. From that point on, their lives are forever changed. Some are able to readjust to life but some aren't. It isn't their fault they can't acclimate into the real world. My position on this issue is that victims of sex trafficking should receive government assistance. Human trafficking is defined as the buying and selling of human beings for sexual or labor related services. Human trafficking is one the fastest growing businesses in the world. According to the United States Department of Justice, it is the second largest international criminal industry, second only to the drug trade. Victims of sex trafficking are humiliated and harassed everyday they go...
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...Adoption, International | Summary: Should couples be banned from adopting children overseas? | | With the ongoing media coverage of ill-treated of children in Chinese and Romanian orphanages and the increasing numbers of infertile couples in the developed world international adoption appears to solve two problems at once. However recently Romania has stopped all international adoptions amid claims of corruption and human trafficking. Similar stories have clouded adoptions from Guatemala. Despite these difficulties international adoptions by US citizens have tripled in the past 5 years and legislation has been passed to make it easier for these adopted children to obtain citizenship. While some children complain of a feeling of cultural dislocation, others are sent to Chinese-American summer camps and seem delighted with their new homes and dual identity. The long-term effects of such migrations are hard to predict but many opponents call for more efforts to be made to house children in their country of birth, with proper support for domestic orphanages and adoption schemes. | | Arguments | Pros | Cons | | | | International adoption removes children from the culture into which they were born. Often this causes a sense of dislocation as the child grows older because the do not feel fully a part of their adopted culture nor the culture of the country into which they were born. These feelings can be exacerbated by racial or ethnic distinctions. | | Whatever maybe...
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...Life Inside of the Mexican Cartel Christian Thomasson American Public University System Life Inside of the Mexican Cartel The Mexican Drug War has been an ongoing armed conflict that is taking place among cartels that are feuding with one another for control of a specific region or regions. With the Mexican government seeking ways to combat the drug trafficking, more violence and rage is erupting among these groups who continue to fight for turf. Although United States military forces have attempted to intervene, new technology and communication devices gives these groups an edge on law enforcement. They are now able to communicate with their substations and various groups throughout the U.S. while their traffic goes undetected. This student will be discussing the various groups, their activities, and their communication tactics. Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel often described as the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, is an alliance of some of Mexico’s top capos (McDermott et. al, 2011). The members of the coalition have been known to operate in concert to protect themselves, they also rely on high connections and corrupt law enforcement to keep the upper hand against rivals or those that attempt to infiltrate their operations. The state of Sinaloa has been named the center for contraband in Mexico, as well as the home for marijuana and poppy cultivation (McDermott...
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...The influx of Central American immigrant children into the Washington, D.C. area has caused some conflict between many parties. One of the easiest ways to analyze this conflict is through the SPITCEROW model. Since we are still analyzing the beginning stages and gathering information, I will only include the Sources, Parties, and Issues along with some other supplemental information. One of the sources of this conflict is the poor living conditions in Central American countries, specifically the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). This is an important conflict dynamic because there are many reasons to leave Central America, which include the high poverty level and horrible economic conditions. There is also a history of organized crime that enables civil wars, gang violence, and drug wars. The rate of homicides and other violent actions are ridiculously high. This particularly violent dynamic of the conflict seems to justify why immigrants want to migrate to gain a sense of security. On the other hand, the source of permitting these immigrant children to come to the U.S. unaccompanied dates back to 2008 when George W....
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...His infancy was framed by poverty, but mostly by his abusive father, who was in the drug trade industry. Joaquin was raised surrounded by marijuana plants that were grown and sold by his father. Guzman’s father is said to be the main the cause of why Joaquin decided to join the drug trafficking industry. Joaquin in his adolescent years had been thrown out of his home, thus obligating him to make his own way to succeed in life. It was from then on that his illegal drug trafficking scandals emerged. Many can say that Joaquin Guzman Loera followed his father footsteps. Joaquin established the Sinaloa cartel in late 1989. Over the years with technology improvement Joaquin’s drug trafficking proceeding grew excessively, he had became a very wealthy man. Recognized for his ruling power and bloodthirsty conduct, El Chapo has been victorious in his courageous escapes from maximum-security...
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...BACKGROUND PAPER ON HONDURAS 1. Honduras is a country located in Central America that is bordered by Guatemala, Nicaragua and Salvador. The vast northern coastline of Honduras touches the Caribbean Sea and its southern gulf opens into the North Pacific Ocean. Honduras is known for things such as having highly-rated vacation-getaways locations such as the island of Roatan and having the city with the one of the most murders per-capita in the world—San Pedro Sula. This paper will be specifically discussing the country’s economics and resources, it’s politics and social relations, and finally the United States’ (US) interest in the country. 2. To begin with, Honduras is ranked as the second poorest country in Central America, deals with a huge gap in distribution of wealth, and has high rates of unemployment. The economy reported an average economic growth of 3.3% from 2010-2015, which realistically isn’t enough to bolster the quality of life and living standards for the 65% of the population living in poverty....
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...surveillance systems, including pilotless drones, now monitor much of the rest of the border. In a speech in El Paso, Texas, in May, U.S. President Barack Obama claimed that the United States had "strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible." Yet according to spring 2011 Rasmussen poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans think the border is no more, or even less, secure than it was five years ago. Some administration critics claim that the United States' frontiers have never been more porous. The border of about 2,000 miles between the United States and Mexico has become a symbol of the hot-button political issues between the two countries, especially illegal immigration to the United States, trade, drug and gun trafficking across the border. In 2006 the Government approved the construction of a border fence aimed to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border, drug smugglers and other...
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...Mexican Drug Cartels Abstract Mexico has long been used as a transshipment point for narcotics and contraband between Latin America and United States markets. Over time, various organizations, also known as “Cartels” have become involved in the distribution, as well as transportation, of illegal drugs and firearms. The fight for power between these known cartels has led to many arrests and deaths of cartel leaders as well as their rivals. While many factors have contributed to the escalating violence, security analysts in Mexico City trace the rising scourge to the longtime implicit arrangement between narcotics traffickers and governments controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost its grip on political power in the late 1980s. There was a decrease in the fighting during the late 1990s but the violence steadily worsened after the 2000s. Origin Birth of all Mexican drug cartels is traced to former Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, also known as “The Godfather”. He founded the Guadalajara Cartel in 1980. He started off by smuggling marijuana and opium into the United States and was the first Mexican drug chief to link up with Colombia’s cocaine cartels, which were run by Pablo Escobar. At the time Felix Gallardo was considered the lord of all Mexican drug smugglers and was in charge of all operations; there was just him, his people, and the politicians who sold him protection. In 1985 the Guadalajara...
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...MARA-SAVATRUCHA (MS13) The Civil War in the early 1980s in El Salvador cost the lives of about 100,000 people. Besides, two million people are reported to have immigrated to the United States, due to the uncertain political and social conditions there. A big chunk of the refugees arrived and settled in the Rampart area of Los Angeles. They needed low cost housing and employment. That area was already afflicted with gangs and crimes. For the local population of Mexican-Americans, this was the most unwelcome development. The combustible youth immigrants from Salvador took the problem of their survival in response to the victimization at the hands of local gangs, as a serious challenge and formed a new gang by name Mara Salvatrucha, popularly known as MS-13. “Las-Mara” is a notorious street gang that engages in violent crimes in El Salvador. Salvatruchas, refers to the members of the political entity, styled Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. This is a group of Peasants from Salvador, trained in guerilla warfare. The number 13 refers to the California prison gang, the Mexican Mafia. A youth facing the unemployment problem, not getting support from the government and the society, when he is constantly nagged, abused, condemned and ostracized by the society, turns into a viler and bitter individual. With no authority to show heartfelt care and concern, and an understanding approach to the problems of teeming millions of refugees, the frustrated immigrant youth...
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...the U.S.-Mexico border between October 1, 2013 and August 31, 2015" (Pierce, 1). The MPI also established that "most of these children came from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico respectively," countries that are plagued by gangs, violence and corruption. "The number of unaccompanied Salvadorian minors apprehended in the US jumped to 17,019 in 2014 from 1,466 in 2011, according to the Department of Homeland Security." (Watts). An ABC News article gives staggering insight as to why these children seem to be fleeing their home country by revealing that "a murder is committed just about every hour and the murder rate is 22 times that of the United States" (Harris et al) in El Salvador. Therefore, it is not surprising that parents sacrifice everything to obtain the funds to pay for their children to be brought across the border in hopes of avoiding gangs or becoming a casualty to gang violence. Parents are aware that once their sons and daughters reach adolescence, they will most likely join a gang due to intimidation and threat. But what awaits them in their home country, perpetual gang violence and poverty, is feared more than the dangers they may encounter trying to escape. The perils these children encounter as they make their way from border to border include "child prostitution, organ trade trafficking and child labor" (Watts). The only way for parents to know for sure if their child is safe or succeeded in illegally entering the border is to check repatriation...
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...fees through prostitution, 12 hours a day, and six days a week. Guards were posted at the doors. Attempted escapes were punished with severe beatings. The bosses considered rape a training method. Mexican farm workers paid $20 for a condom and 15 minutes with a woman, though on average they received $3 per encounter. It became impossible for the women to pay their debts, since the bosses added charges for room, board and miscellaneous fines to the original transportation fee. Eventually two 15 year-olds successfully fled to the Mexican consulate and the traffickers were arrested. The women face deportation to Mexico, where some of the original recruiters are still at large. (D’Agostino, Joseph. “The New Illegal Immigrants: Sex Slaves.” Human Events 7/2/99, Vol. 55, Issue 24, p. 4) Freedom is a short, powerful word we take for granted every day. It is hard to fully appreciate freedom when we have never had it snatched away from us. We get to choose our jobs, where we live, what we eat. If we are unhappy with any of our life situations we have the freedom to leave and engage in some other activity that satisfies us. Unfortunately, some people are not so lucky. They live the majority of their lives without ever experiencing freedom due to the various practices of modern day slavery. Today, there are millions of people around the world being kidnapped, virulently mistreated and sometimes even murdered, all to facilitate cheap or free labour and sexual...
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