... involvement in order to establish control and reduce the civil conflicts that have claimed 38,000 civilian lives. The U.S. should help Colombia end its civil turmoil peacefully and terminate the illicit drug trade. January has been designated as the month U.S. will become involved and aid the Colombian military in retaining peace after 34 years of civil war. But what war will ... to minimize the short-term negative impact economic stabilization methods will have on unemployment and other social and economic problems. Another alternative is to stress the import of the legal drug goods and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellin Cartel, in 1993, the violent acts perpetrated by this group and others involved in the illicit drug trade have become overshadowed by the bloody battles among opposing political groups. In the present the main parties involved in the conflict are: ... as fuel to intensify the discordance among opposing groups. Also the climate of public insecurity is a source of ongoing concern for investors. On the illicit drugs trade, Colombia is the world's leader producer of refined cocaine; providing the US with 90% of its demand. The rapid accumulation o...

• Word Count: 1312
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Administration (DEA), agency of the U.S. Department of Justice established in 1973. DEA merged the functions of four separate drug law enforcement agencies. The primary task of the agency is to reduce the supply of illicit drugs produced domestically or entering the U.S. from abroad. DEA also regulates the legal trade in narcotic and dangerous drugs, manages a national narcotics intelligence system, ... and works with other agencies to support drug traffic prevention. United States Coast Guard, branch of the armed forces of the ... enforcement of maritime law and the protection of life...

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... in any stores, they are sold by gangsters in the streets. These type of people may not care about anybody but themselves, which is why drug deals can go wrong, resulting in fights and gunfire. If drugs were sold in government regulated shops, which would be under surveillance, this scenario would ... is unfair to the offender, and just means that there is a lucrative job opening the dealer's area, not that the world has one less drug dealer. The government currently spends around $20 billion per year to stop the use of drugs. That figure has doubled since 1990 with no decrease ... in u...

• Word Count: 474
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... development. The dark side of globalization allows multinational criminals to broaden their range of operations from drug and arms trafficking to money laundering and trafficking in human beings. Organized criminals accrue huge sums of money through drug trafficking, arms smuggling, financial crime and other illegal proceeds. Drug smuggling by migrants, often at high risk to the migrants and at great profit for the ... taken advantage of by organized criminal groups. Migrants are often confined or forced into exploitive or oppressive forms of employment, often in the sex trade or danger...

• Word Count: 667
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate