Juarez Cartel Research Paper

Jose Antonio Navarro was a very important man because he was involved in the Texas Revolution. He was born on February 27, 1795, and he was sent to Saltillo, Mexico as a young child, and injured his leg that didn 't heal properly which caused him to have a limp. The same year he injured his leg father died from a severe illness. He learned the merchant trade which was his father´s occupation, and has his own trade post, but specialized in Mexican Law. Which didn´t really make any sense. He met his future wife named Margarita de la Garza at his merchant stand, and immediately fell in love. Jose and Margarita has a daughter named Maria Casimira del Carmen in the spring of 1817. He was happy about there being a new trade port on the coast of Texas at La Bahia, because he thought he could open a new trade post to help raise money for his family, which did not work because the other merchants would not let him sell near them, because, they thought he would out-sell them, which he did.

Corruption in Mexico has existed since the Spanish came to conquer Mexico, when they took control of the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs saw them as gods who came to save them. (Lomnitz) When the king of Spain, Carlos V, found out he took control. (ibid.) He prohibited Hernán Cortés from apply

Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula also known as Francisco Villa or as we know him Pancho Villa was born June 5, 1878 and was one of the most important Mexican Revolutionary general in Mexico. Pancho Villa was born Doroteo Arango, the son of a sharecropper at the hacienda in San Juan Del Rio, Durango. While growing up, Pancho Villa witnessed and experienced the harshness of peasant life. In Mexico during the late 19th century, the rich were becoming richer by taking advantage of the lower classes, often treating them like slaves. When Villa was 15, his father died, so Villa began to work as a sharecropper to help support his mother and four siblings.

In his campaign against the Aztec Empire, Cortez relied upon the other local indigenous tribes for assistance. Why did they ally themselves to Cortez and how did they help him secure ultimate victory?

Chicago has compared him to Al Capone. He is rich, powerful, and one of the most dangerous men in Mexico. The great drug kingpin Joaqin “El Chapo” Guzman is the leader of the sinola cartel, the most powerful in Mexico. Recently escaped from the confines of a maximum security prison through a mile long tunnel which started at his shower.

There are many Drug Lord’s all over the world but none as infamous as the notorious most wanted, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Chapo is known for the building of the Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful organized crime institution across the world, mainly notorious for drug trafficking. Mostly marijuana, heroin, methamphetamines, and cocaine are smuggled across other countries, mainly to the United States. Chapo is also well known for escaping custody ten times easier than it takes for him to actually get captured. In 1993, Chapo was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but in 2001 he made his first escape from one of Mexico's toughest prisons, Puente Grande. According to The New York Times, in this facility every prisoner has two prison guards to watch

Narco Corridos: genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.

Borders have been a staple of human society and are a projection of a society’s values and fears, regardless of if their creation is just or not. In this paper I will examine the presence of borders put up by humans, the reasons behind their creation, and how the effect the people around them. Some country’s borders have extensive walls that were erected for a purpose, other borders walls are not physical, and are quite permeable. I will delve into the reasons why some population’s consensus at the time was to isolate themselves, as well as give some context to what was happening at the time that could influence a society’s choices.

The arrival of Spanish adventurers to the coast of Mexico in 1519 set in motion the rapid descent of a vast and powerful indigenous empire that had controlled the land. The Spanish, led by Herman Cortes, embarked on a violent and extensive campaign across the Valley of Mexico. It was this campaign that led them to the great city of Tenochtitlan, capital of the feared and powerful Mexica Empire. On par with likes of Paris and Rome, Tenochtitlan was densely populated and intricately designed city that was home to a rich history. Despite these factors, its demise was met only a few years after the initial arrival of Cortes and his adventurers. This demise was precipitated by an outbreak of disease within the city, Spanish alliance with rival indigenous

Did you know that Hernan Cortes had a huge impact to the world? Hernan Cortes was born in 1485 in the kingdom of Castile in the city of Medellin. His profession is being a conquistador, which means soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense. His most historical contribution is leading a exhibition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire. And lastly, the world would be different without him.

People may know him as the most dangerous and most powerful man and also to be known as the man to own the world’s biggest and successful cartel named after the Mexican Pacific coast state Sinaloa (Sinaloa Cartel). Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera also known as El Chapo was born on December 25, 1954, or, he might have been born on April 4, 1957. He got the name El Chapo (The Shorty) because of his height (5 ft. 6 in.).

Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera entered the drug trade as a teenager. He got the nickname "El Chapo" because it was due to his height. He founded the Sinaloa cartel in 1989, over as the time passed he build a powerful drug trafficking cartel. Known for his malevolent actions and powerful influences Guzman has escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico. According, to the sources from The Last Narco “Today he is well known to be one of the richest men in the country.” Guzman a fugitive from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) and International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in multiple countries.

Pablo Escobar was an infamous Colombian drug lord whose reign lasted from 1975 until his death in 1993. During this period, he has been described in a variety of ways from several historians. He has been depicted as a Robin Hood character, who saved Colombia’s middle and lower classes who felt exploited by their government. A person who used his fame and international prestige to help his people and redistribute wealth to the less fortunate (Bowley 6-7). With regards to Colombian officials and Western perspectives, Escobar was named as a violent criminal by them on several occasions. (Bowley 10). It’s been seen that his internationally recognized cartel, the Medellin cartel has caused plenty of problems for the Colombian government.

and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. He worked alongside "El Chapo". Héctor Luis Palma Salazar was born in , Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico in the mid 1950s. There is no evidence of a specific birthdate. Palma began his criminal carreer as a car thief and then eventually working as a gunman for Miguel Gallardo in the Guadalajara Cartel. Palma rose in ranks. Following the loss of a large cocaine shipment, which was blamed on Palma, El Lobito was killed, and Palma was spared. Following El Lobitos death, Palma came into contact and created an alliance with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman. Palma seperated from the group which was handed down to Gallardo 's nephews in

“The United States and Colombian governments consider Pablo Escobar, head of the notorious Medellín cartel, to be one of the most brutally ruthless yet ambitious and powerful drug dealers in history”(Banks). Born on December 1st 1949, Pablo Escobar began his career as a criminal by stealing and smuggling tombstones while still in school. He later entered the drug business by driving cocoa paste to Medellín. For years Pablo Escobar disrupted the lives of the people of Colombia, including John Jairo Velasquez, dehumanizing them with frequent violent killings and actions.