S. with its Saudi partner Bin Laden construction to build long sought after pipelines and re-open the heroin drug trade, important for financing off the books operations in the same manner as Iran-Contra did with cocaine" (Dawson)
But, of course, drug money also helped. America is, like all empires, ruled "by an emperor or king who has control over the government and media, is not elected by the people, is not subject to their will, and whose term is not limited by law" (Perkins, 2007, p
As head of the CIA from 1953-1961, Dulles was accountable to and for a number of patrons, but Christ was not one of them. Weiner paints a clear picture of the kind of man and the kind of virtues he possessed: "By virtue of his carefully cultivated reputation as an American master spy, built as the OSS chief in Switzerland, he was regarded by the Republican leadership as the director of central intelligence in exile" (Weiner, p
" Drug trafficking began to finance and impact the politics in Colombia during the time to an unprecedented degree. (Schmid, 2005) as a way to stifle their political adversaries' revenue stream and fight against them, the FARC began trafficking drugs as well
One eighty-two-year-old woman from Bogota died in a taxi at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York when a pellet full of narcotics ruptured in her stomach (Sesin pp)
The girl's home, in Point Roberts, Washington, borders British Columbia in an area with relatively light border patrol, which, say authorities made it easy for her to get the drugs from Canada before boarding her school bus in the morning (Hamilton pp). Law officers in Lebanon, Tennessee discovered marijuana hidden in chili and jalapeno pepper cans (Humbles pp)
S. authorities arrested a sixteen-year-old girl who was carrying 8 pounds of marijuana hidden in her backpack (Hamilton pp)
Oakland County deputies stopped several semi-trucks that have turned up marijuana hidden in special compartments in vacuum-sealed packages to evade detection by police dogs (Lynch pp). According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, drug traffickers are now using women and children as human mules to transport heroin and cocaine from California to Pittsburgh and other eastern cities on Greyhound buses (Reilly pp)
. If you keep doing the same thing all the time, people will catch on" (Lynch pp)
In May 2005, Border Patrol agents from Las Cruces seized fifty pounds of cocaine discovered in two false compartments on the side panels of a 1999 Ford Explorer (Las pp). In 2002, Customs agents seized more than 3,200 pounds of cocaine from five vessels that arrived in Miami from Haiti (Allen pp)
Aside from the foreign import of drugs, there are domestic organizations that cultivate, produce, manufacture, and distribute illegal drugs such as marijuana, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, PCP, and lysergic acid diethyamide, LSD (Drug pp). Traffickers try to ship the largest possible quantities to the widest range of destinations in the Untied States (Kaufman pp)
The CIA's relationship with Luciano continued into the 1950s when the organization worked with the well-known heroin dealer in a plot to illegally and covertly assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "Lansky, who was Luciano's money man in the States, offered to put out a $1 million contract on Castro's head shortly after the revolution" and the CIA agreed (Cockburn & St
He began to build what became known as 'The French Connection' of the heroin trade. Before this, "at the end of World War II, there was a strong chance that heroin addiction could be eliminated in the United States" (McCoy, 2003, p
He began to build what became known as 'The French Connection' of the heroin trade. Before this, "at the end of World War II, there was a strong chance that heroin addiction could be eliminated in the United States" (McCoy, 2003, p
As these groups gained control over liberated zones inside Afghanistan, the Afghan guerrillas required that its local supporters grow opium to support the resistance (McCoy 1997). Even the United States State Department complained publicly as well as privately about the drug production and trafficking of various anti-Soviet guerrilla factions supported financially and politically by the CIA (Scott 2007)
The Andean Region -- Most Difficult Region One of the regions of Latin America that is the most difficult for the United States government to deal with is that of the Andean region due to the experienced patterns of "short-term success and long-term failure in tackling the drug problem." (Gamarra, 2005) It is reported that while there are common elements that the various regions and their differences "mean that a one-size-fits-all counter-drug policy is not only likely to fail, but may even exacerbate the problems in each country
However, in the United States, many equate the coca leaf with cocaine addiction and dangerous narcotics and belief it must be eliminated as part of the war on drugs." (Koops, 2009) In contrast, Bolivians perceive the zero coca policy of the United States to be a form of imperialism and an effort to dominate the culture of Bolivia
policy in order to provide "multi-faced aid and deemphasize counternarcotics efforts; (2) Providing support to political institutions and human rights groups and activities; (3) Provide support for economic and alternative development in these countries; (4) Provide increased diplomatic efforts supporting the peace process; (5) Add to the military and police assistance given these countries; (6) Return counternarcotics revenue to the Colombian national police; (7) Suspend or terminate the military assistance to these countries; or (8) Continue with current levels of support and current policy. (Serafino, 2001, paraphrased) It is the opinion of this study that none of these will individually provide an effective answer to dealing with the drug cartels and associated drug trade of Latin American countries but instead it is the position of this work in writing that it will require an ongoing commitment in many areas to assist these countries in combating illegal drug trade in Latin America
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan renewed the war on narcotics and amplified the endeavors of the DEA, in an effort to curtail drug trafficking across the U.S. borders (Hamowy, 1987)
Thesis / Introduction If it seriously intends to combat these aforementioned illicit activities, Mexico must launch a massive intervention and interdiction campaign, targeting the flow of drugs (cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines, among others) on land, on sea, and Mexico must begin paying special attention of the movement of drugs and bulk currency through the use of illicit aviation. How bad is it? Heroin Abuse is Spreading into the Heartland An article in The New York Times ("In Heartland Death, Traces of Heroin's Spread") published May 31, 2009, points to the fact that Mexican drug cartels have "pushed heroin sales beyond major cities into American's suburban and rural byways" (Archibold, 2009)