According to Vanda Felbab-Brown, a Brookings Institute narcotics expert, Mexican cartels are a structured and militarized organization that employ at least half a million people. To increase the control within Mexicos institutional frame work the cartels use brutality and terror. Corpses are dumped in city streets and in other cases, the bodies are cut into pieces or decapitated. Reporters are usually always the victims of cartel murders. They fear fatal repercussions for detailing cartel activities.
Terrorism and Drug Trafficking in Libya: 2000-Present Drug trafficking is seen as one of the most lucrative crimes today, it is seen worldwide and targets countries with many political issues such as a weak government or corruption. Currently, Libya is going through a major drug trafficking difficulty that is causing many complications in the country and garnering strength in the territory through radical terrorist groups. This is directly an effect of the severe political turmoil that Libya has been enduring these past years, through many groups rising to gain power and destabilizing the already weak government. Political Instability Libya has had a notorious history of state sponsored terrorism. Muammar Gaddafi, the former state leader
for drugs and cocaine and the potential profits to be made, drug cartels have been battling violently with each other for control of territory in Mexico. And since December 2006, the Mexican government, itself, has been battling with the cartels and drug traffickers (CNN). Mexican President Felipe Calderon “launched a war on the cartels”. “The new president promised that an increasingly violent Mexico would at last become a nation of laws” (Corchado). His method was somewhat successful.
All these crimes represent a multi-billion dollar industry and they pose a threat not only to communities on both sides of the border, but to our national security as well. United States Side Of The Border: kidnappings, corruption issues, and the illegal drug trade that goes through. The cash that 's flowing south, the weapons that are flowing south, and the drugs that are flowing north. Many illegal immigrants dig holes underground to get into the United States while smuggling drugs into the United States.
21 Oct. 2015. Identity A lot of people came to know the Dixon Bloods due to Rob Ford’s association with them and the video scandal of them smoking crack cocaine together. The Dixon Bloods’ turf is a sequence of buildings that are located along Dixon Road,
Back in the 1980’s, the drug cartels of Colombia were the cause of chaos all over the world – especially in the United States. In fact, at the height of their power, the Bogotá cartel supplied ninety per cent of Uncle Sam’s cocaine. The cartel was barbaric; assassinating anyone who stood in their way. To add to this, they also had the majority of the law enforcement system on their payroll. And, of course, at the heart of all of this was drug lord Carlos Ruiz and his loyal vice, Pablo Álvarez.
The other single story regarding the civil war in Sierra Leone is the cause of the war. The RUF, or the Revolutionary United Front, fought for “justice”. They killed millions of innocent civilians, and then the government army began to do the same. However, the soldiers did need money for the ammunition and firearms. The funding was coming from diamonds, blood diamonds.
“[Before December] there were weekly if not daily shootouts in the town square between rival drug dealers. There are numerous reports of women being snatched off the street and stuffed into dark SUVs,” he said. “[The cartels] rule by fear, they would make sure that you could see them in the streets of Coban…. they knew they were beyond the reach of the law.”
We have been fighting drug abuse for almost a century. The war on drugs is a growing problem in America everyday. This war is becoming an unfortunate loss. Our courts, hospitals, and prisons are continuously being filled with drug abusers. Violent crime the ravages our neighborhood is a result of the drug trade.
Colombia is experiencing Human Rights Violations from guerilla groups, government forces, and paramilitary organizations. These violations mostly consist of massacres, torture and extortion that are not only inflicted upon civilians but also human rights defenders. This violence emerged from Colombia’s fortyfive year old internal conflict caused by the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a political leader. Today, guerillas continue to fight the parliament and state, but all parties are pronounced guilty for different sums of reported Human Rights Violations committed within their country. The issue is important because Columbia’s population has the world’s second largest internally displaced persons percentage and civilians live in such
Most Colombians are being forced out of their homes and forced to live on the streets. Some are threatened and harmed and are pulled and have to live on the streets. Paramilitaries will enter a region and start to execute local community leaders. This right is being broken by small armies destroying the civilians and also harming them and sometimes killing them. Other problems currently in Colombia are deforestation and the environmental issues.
Peaceful resistance to laws has a positive impact on a free society. This allows the people of the community to have a say so in which the society is ran. Some people say peaceful resistance is to keep the government in check. Civil disobedience can change the society and raise awareness to disparities. Peaceful resistance is very productive to uphold a free society.