Drug trafficking

The world is currently engaged in the drug war, a war that was fought for decades and which shows no sign be successfully completed in the near future. As with other types of wars, this one has fronts, both within national borders, as well as in foreign countries and the war affect the country's economic policy and form relationships with numerous foreign powers. Military and intelligence agencies are engaged in war, as well as various law enforcement agencies at local, regional and federal levels (Maggie 2007 239). However, drug use and abuse continues to be strong, and drug interdiction efforts at the international level to draw mixed reviews. This study examines the issue of drug trafficking, and considers policy implications. Traffickers run everything like a business. They sell a product to compete for customers and market their products, collect payments, payment of commissions and salaries for people who work for them. "He often argued that drug traffickers can be regarded as entrepreneurs involved in the" enterprise crime "and that drug trafficking has much in common with legitimate business" The main difference between the business and upper-level drug trafficking is that traders do not observe the rules and regulations that legitimate businesses must follow. As a general rule, remuneration overrides the risk for most people in the illegal drug market. Factors such as economic changes have to those who are used to make a living repairing and reselling unwanted seeking quick money, which could generate huge profits. One might think of trade within the borders of the United States will not be a big problem with all the technology and manpower of the United States. Trading in the U.S. is very difficult to prevent with more than 295 million people, including more than 88 million cars and 4.5 million trucks and rail cars cross ... Sometimes, when the news is too hot for the national media, but too important to die, he gets buried alive. Here's what happened a decade ago with investigative journalism, which is connected by the CIA and cocaine trafficking. Now, more information is surfacing - with a hiss, which can be explosive.

Media Coverage and the War on Drugs

During most of 1980, San Jose Mercury News has just reported drug operation sold tons of cocaine to street gangs in Los Angeles and sent millions of drug profits in Latin American guerrilla army run by the Central Intelligence Agency. "That armed detachment was the Nicaraguan rebel forces known as the "contras" - ranked as "freedom fighters" leader Reagan and many influential media experts. • Thanks to the efforts of the CIA, cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America - and provided the cash and connections needed for the gangs of Los Angeles to buy automatic weapons. " • The CIA organized a union between US-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary socialist government in Nicaragua and drug traffickers wielding machine guns in the ghetto areas of Southern California. •Contra financiers "met with ...