James+Velazquez

=James Velazquez León = Jeff and pg __#|College__ bound June 4 2013 =Drug Trafficking HI JAMES = Drug trafficking has been a problem around the world but mostly in the United StatesDrug trafficking is a term to describe the __#|production__, distribution and sale of illegal drugs. Mexican and Colombian drug cartels have been w orth millions and billions of dollars. Some of the main countries involved are: Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. = = The United States has been working with other countries to stop drug trafficking in the following ways. First, add more __#|security__ at the United States border. The second way is screening passenger and employee belongings. Lastly, adding more coast guards for the protection and screening of shipments. United States have alliances with other countries, but the strongest is with the Colombian government. The United States has estimated about [|$100 to $110 billion for heroin, $110 $130 billion for cocaine, and $75 billion for cannabis]. Colombian government says that they know the smuggling routes “but the problem is we don’t have enough people to go after them.” = =

One of the world most powerful drug trafficker Joaquin “el chapo” Guzman, he is the most-wanted criminal  in the US and Mexico. Chapo in 1990 was sentenced to 20 years in prison but he smuggled out in a laundry cart. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> chapo have his on cartel called Sinaloa cartel that <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt;">may have 150,000 people working for him. The Sinaloa cartel can buy a kilo of cocaine in the highlands of Colombia or Peru for around $2,000, In Mexico, that kilo fetches more than $10,000. Jump the border to the United States, and it could sell wholesale for $30,000 When Pablo Escobar was Chapo’s age, he had been dead for more than a decade. In fact, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Chapo sells more drugs today than Escobar did at the height of his __#|career__ the cartel of Sinaloa is expanding to new markets in Europe, where a kilo of cocaine can sell for three times what it does in the U.S., and in Australia. Also the cartel is exploring opportunities in Southeast Asia, China and Japan places Chapo and Martinez first visited as younger men.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">U.S. officials in Puerto Rico arrest two individuals who were seized 2,200 kilos of cocaine in a boat that was heading south on the Caribbean island with an estimated value of $ 29 million.Coast Guard flew over the southern coast of Puerto Rico when his crew sighted a suspicious vessel, so that he requested until the drug to arrest them. The cocaine final destination was United States. =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">media type="custom" key="23274962" width="714" height="303" = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">The United States are doing the best they can with other countries to fight. Drug trafficking but the cartels are doing more routes to send the drug but if they do more route it would be more hard to fight back for the US drug trafficking. Also, it would be hard for the future economy because if the economy gets worst more people would be working for this. If student drop out of school government are not going to give then nothing so they would be drug dealer an addictive person. In conclusion if teenagers get in to this in the future there would be no education or respect in this would. =

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