According to Colin Gray, “there have been well over an estimated 13,600 drug-related killings in the country. The killings are tied to Mexican drug cartels, which supply vast amounts of marijuana, methamphetamines, and cocaine primarily to U.S. markets. The deaths are only becoming more prevalent. The New York Times reports that “in 2008, there were more than 6,200 drug-related murders, more than double the figure from the year before….” There has been significant spillover into the U.S. as well, including the kidnapping of more than 60 Americans in the border town of Nuevo
Many of the people in Roberto Settineri’s life in Miami had no idea that he was a mobster and was part of an international organized crime. With the theories mentioned it helped me understand the different organized crimes that can take place and the reasoning behind them. Settineri is sneaky and conniving. He was able to get away with multiple murders and criminal charges and just get caught on getting rid of money laundering and sentenced for only four years. It becomes difficult to comprehend and reason how all these crimes come about.
Who is responsible? Members of two major drug cartels arrested. MORELIA, Mexico – Last night the federal police was forced to take action after a serious call about the location of some members of the two major drug cartels in Mexico, namely La Familia and The Zetas drug gang. Nearly 50 members were detained, including some suspect of the recent attack on a police helicopter. The police have said in a statement that 36 members belong to La Familia and 10 members belong to the Zetas.
It took Mexico another 34 years to declare the war on drugs in 2006 by President Felipe Calderon. This caused more violence to erupt in many cities of mexico. Many more Mexican street gangs joined the infamous cartels and started making Mexico very unsave. “ The drug cartels have been around since the 1940’s with an estimated 80 small to medium sized cartels operating in the country now.” (Fox) The war is mostly between the rival cartels fighting for drug trafficking areas. This is far more a war, than just a border problem.
The dealers conducted their business in secluded subcultures. In an interview with drug smugglers Temple University Press reported that contacts in Columbia had arranged the transportation of drugs in the late 1980’s and 1990’s. Post research has shown that the structure of drug organization in Colombia has evolved over the past twenty years (DEA, 1997 ; Bunker and Sullivan,1998) The drug distribution in Colombia was done thru Cartels. The way the drugs were smuggled to the United States was in stages. The drugs are moved from Colombia to a halfway point then someone else and bring them over on a commercial vessel or large shipping boat.
In this paper I am going to look at “Scarface 1983” and the important role it has in modern day gangster flicks. Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino. The film tells the story of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who comes to Miami in 1980 as a result of Castro’s infamous exile of Cuban prisoners and unwanted locals, and becomes a drug kingpin during the cocaine boom of the 1980s. The movie tells in sequential order his rise to the top of Miami's drug empire to his demise. What few people know is this film is actual a remake of the 1932 picture of the same name.
The Black Mafia Family originated around the late 1980’s. This was a time of new found origins in the drug world. The addition of crack cocaine to the market made crime lords waiting in the mist to get it onto the streets and get it to their public as fast as they possibly could. The Black Mafia Family was one of those gangs that had made themselves a staple in the drug game. Starting off in Detroit, Michigan by founders Demetrious and Terry Flenory, they built themselves a drug empire.
Drugs 1 Drug Trafficking In the United States Use of Cocaine in America Carolyn Bennett Eng 122 Allorah Wyman 3/25/12 Drugs 2 The Use of Cocaine The topic that I choose to write on is Cocaine. Cocaine is used all over the world. It was first discovered in the mid 1800’s. At first it was used as an anesthetic during eye, nose and throat surgery. Then it was used for depression and addiction to morphine.
Ronald Reagan pushed the war on drugs to take the drugs off the street. Whites and blacks use the drugs at the same rate but are not being sentenced the same. The F.B.I data show two-thirds of those arrested for drug violations in 2006 were white and 33% were black, although blacks make up 12.8% of the population. Federal data of the most recent available information tells that blacks are 53.5% of all who entered prison for a drug charge. The criminal system is supposed to be justice, but as we see it is very injustice.
Drug Trafficking in the United States: New York America’s use and distribution of illegal narcotics directly contribute to the violence that plagues New York City streets. One would advance that drugs are the ‘underworld economy’ in America. They are being smuggled into the U.S from every direction and all kinds of ways. They are trafficked in and distributed to people of every age, race and social stature. According to a 2010 survey, the estimated populations of Americans that use drugs are 22 million (NSDUH, 2010).