Escobar's Narcoterrorism

There is a saying in Colombia that God made the land so beautiful it was unfair to the rest of the world, so to be fair, God populated Colombia with a race of evil men. Violence in Colombia has been prevalent since the country’s bloody struggle for independence. Since then, violence has sprouted from a variety of sources, serving multiple interests and agendas. These different waves of violence shook the country and left countless dead. One of the most recent occurrences was the violence that developed during the late twentieth century, and continued into the twenty-first century, in Bogotá and Medellín. During this era, Pablo Escobar and the other cartels terrorized Colombia’s urban centers with their bombing campaigns and assassinations.

President Nixon declared the war on drugs on June 17th, 1971. The war on drugs has been defined as “a series of actions tending towards the prohibition of illegal drug trade.” This declaration has allowed for a variety of policies and legislative actions to be implemented over the past 45 years. One of the main actions taken by the United States has been the adoption of a multilateral military approach in combating the drug issue that continues to plague American societies. In 1999, President Clinton worked alongside Colombia’s President Pastrana Andrés to establish ‘Plan Colombia’, a military aid/intervention that ultimately targeted the source of drugs, coca crops, in hope of eradicating the ongoing societal drug issue in the United States

Pablo escobar was born on December the 1, 1949 Pablo was born at Rionegro, Colombia, as a teenager on the streets of medellin he began as a criminal career by stealing gravestones and made them sanding for resale to smugglers. Pablo was notarious Colombia drug lord who at his career by supplying 80% of the cocaine into the United States. He was known as the king of cocaine, he was the biggest criminal in the history.

The piece de resistance in his property domain was a 5,000 section of land farm in Puerto Triunofo. The ideal world was manufactured as an occasion getaway and incorporated a pool, a bullring and a zoo lodging hippos, giraffes and elephants. Pablo's Capture At the point when his past at long last got up to caught up with him in the mid 90's, he went and manufactured his own luxury prison… In the wake of killing a large number of individuals, including a presidential candidate, the government chose to make a move against Escobar. His response was to take up arms against them, putting enormous bounties on the head of open figures and policemen.

The beginning of Escobar’s reign over the law started in 1976. Pablo and his cousin Gustavo had been arrested for illegal possession of 39 pounds of cocaine. The charges that had been charged against them were very serious. Pablo had influenced the judge to free them by a bribe. It was soon after the case had been attempted to be reopen by a different judge who wanted Pablo arrested for his actions, and knew the prior process of Escobar’s trial was unjust.

In San Diego, North Count, gang activity has Rudy Espudo, the leader of a Mexican Mafia group, pleaded guilty to his organized crimes involving the mafia. He is known for drug trafficking, violence, and extortion. Espudo has been involved in the Mexican Mafia by encouraging other gangs to pay “taxes” to the main Mexican Group, “La Eme”. Paying taxes the smaller groups in order to get supplies such as illegal substances to sell. Espudo played a leading role in his gang that was under the protection of the Mexican Mafia.

(Anderson, 3) This was all just to get the government workers to stay quiet about Carrillo’s whereabouts. It got to a point where Carrillo and his cartel came under increasing pressure from the Mexican anti-drug forces. The Univision article written by Manuel Juarez states that the defense secretary of Mexico at the time and other government officials were offered a payment of 60 million dollars as a bribe. With this bribe, Carillo left a down payment of 6 million dollars as a gesture to the government officials.

“ El Senor De Los Cielos” as many may know Amado Carrillo Fuentes. He was known as the Lord of the Skies because of his method of transporting drugs. He would transport drugs using jets all around the world. He was in charge of the Juarez Cartel for just a couple months, but in the short amount of time he got control of this cartel he was becoming more powerful. Amado wanted to become more in life.

For years, the United States and Mexico have been engaged in operations to halt the production of drugs south of the border as well as their shipment to the United States, which is world’s largest drug market.   However, the genesis of the current Drug War is commonly traced back to the 2000s for a couple of reasons.  Just days after taking office in December 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon  kicked off a veritable “war” against the cartels when he sent 6,500 soldiers and police into his home state of Michoacan to  organized crime  in this area. Mexican society is largely homogeneous and socially conservative.

Beatriz Pintor Ms. McKimmey Pre-AP World History Period 4 22 January 2016 El Chapo’s Escape and Recapture On January 2016 fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is recaptured again. He was captured by two Mexican Marines in a Resort in Mazatlan early in the morning, which is in northern mexico. At first people didn’t think it was him because they had his face covered when they were taking him away.

Hernando lived in South Side Chicago a place where constant illegal crimes happened, a place that was overlooked by law enforcement. Some people may say he did what he did because of the environment he lived in. Others would say he thought it was ok because he had gotten away with it before because his parents had bailed him out and had a private lawyer. The theoretical concepts that are being used is culture aspect.

At this time, Colombia was characterized by violent conflict widespread. There was bitter rivalry between the Conservative and Liberal parties which led to two civil wars. One of the wars is known as “La Violencia” which happened from 1946 to 1957. Under Rojas Pinilla military dictatorship, many armed groups effectively ruled parts of the country where the control of the central government lacked or was nonexistent. When rojas failed to restore democratic rule and became implicated in corrupt schemes, he was overthrown by the military with the support of the Liberal and Conservative Parties.

His death was a moment that the American drug enforcement agents as well as the authorities of Colombia had been waiting for for so long. After many years on the run from the police Pablo had developed certain ways of evading them, towards the end of his reigns Pablo knew he was going to be captured so he began enjoying life, leaving strongholds by himself to go get supplies, not trying so hard to be undetected. Once the power has been abused to a certain extent like when Escobar blew up a civilian jetliner and killed hundreds of innocent people there are only two realistic outcomes, prison or death, in Escobar's case it was death. “He built houses and cared about the poor,” one funeral goer stated at Escobar’s funeral in a story reported by The New York Times. “In the future, people will go to his tomb to pray, the way they would to a saint.”

Through working for drug lord Héctor "El Güero" Palma and Félix Gallardo, Guzmán swiftly moved up the ranks after the leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel approved of Guzmán’s business strategies which included execution of smugglers who failed to deliver drug shipments on time. Utilizing these tactics and connections with other drug lords, Guzmán founded his own cartel which he expanded to create Mexico’s largest and wealthiest cartel. Although Guzmán is known as a pragmatic and ruthless leader, many see him as a keeper of peace and a helper to the people. Ordinary people see him as a leader who has

He is a Mexican politician formerly associated with PRI. He stole around 223 millions of pesos from taxes which was given to shell corporation. (Grasso) Another case was “La Casa Blanca”(The White House), an investigation from a journalist that made the hugest scandal to the president Enrique Peña Nieto; it was known that he had a house of 86 millions of pesos in Lomas de Chapultepec. (ibid.) In the middle of accusations by the "White House", the then federal Deputy and now the delegational head of Cuauhtémoc, in the Federal District, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, accused that the Governor of Puebla Rafael Moreno Valle delivered projects for more than 26 thousand 212 million pesos in three years, to businessman Armando Hinojosa Cantú, owner of Grupo Higa.