Everyone has heard of the infamous, worth being praised, Pablo Escobar. He is known for terror, money, and anything bad about any drug cartel. Throughout this essay, it’s going to answer how and why he obtained so much power in colombia and in the United States. First, i’m going to tell you where he came from and how he grew up. Then i’ll tell you his rise to becoming the great and powerful Pablo Escobar. On December 1, 1949 , his mother Hermilda de Los Dolores Gaviria Berrío had and named…
The Sinaloa Cartel has fought brutally for increased control of routes through Chihuahua and Baja California with the goal of becoming the dominant drug trafficking organization in the country and more decentralized structure of loosely linked smaller organization. (Beittel, 2013) Began in 2008, Bush as President of United State and Calderon as President of Mexico agreed to development effort transforming the bilateral relationship by a security agreement package of United States assistance…
Pablo Escobar is one of the most infamous drug dealers of all time, and the new show Narcos will be based on Escobar and part of his life. Narcos has a combination of everything that makes a great show, with violent, dramatic and intimate scenes. It also tells the story of Steve Murphy, an up and coming DEA agent who was assigned to move from Miami to Columbia and take down Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. Murphy also gives a first person narrative of his accounts throughout the show in between…
maybe that life is about “being at the right place at the right time”? Or have you ever heard about the cartels and their crimes down in Mexico? Murders, kidnapping, drug trafficking, and lots of partying goes on every day by every cartel and by every drug lord south of the border. Unfortunately, these two topics have much in common in Mexico. Civilians that do not have anything to do with the cartels get caught up in these kind of events like partying with them, then, unexpectedly local police,…
de Janeiro, Brazil. Directed by Fernando Meirelles, the film portrays life in the City of God, a favela that began in the 1960s as a new housing project. Its main characters were children and petty thieves who lived a life surrounded by violence and drug turfs. Narrated by Rocket, a boy who dreams of becoming a photographer, the story focuses on the escalating battle between rival gangs led by the murderous Little Zé and Carrot. What stands out the most throughout the movie is the depiction of…
December 1, 1949. He was the third oldest out of seven and had a humble upbringing. His father was a farmer and his mother was a grade school teacher. Little is known about his siblings outside of Robert Escobar, who was the main accountant for the cartel. Pablo was married to in the year 1976 to Maria Victoria Henao Vellejo. Even though Pablo was known for having multiple affairs, his wife stood by him until he was killed by Columbian forces. They had two children Juan and Manuela. Pablo…
The U.S. has done quite a lot to stop drug cartels in Latin America. Since the 1970s, the U.S. spent one trillion dollars or more, trying their best to dismantle drug cartels. U.S. troops, pilots, and ships have been constantly deployed to track down drug smugglers. The U.S. has not only trained their units, but militaries and law enforcement agents in Latin American countries as well. The Fourth Fleet is in the Caribbean, the Marines in Guatemala, and the National Guard in Honduras. The U.S.…
Drugs and Crime in Mexico Drugs and crime in Mexico has been risen very quickly. Mexico has become the focus of a great attention due to the concern of violence related to drug trafficking. Since the mexican president Felipe Calderon declared “war” on drug traffickers, an estimated of 22,000 people have died in drug-related violence. In the early twenty-first century, the mexican government attempt to stop the activity of drug cartels, but the result has been an uncontrolled violence. The…
Some may call him the Colombian Robin Hood. Others call him El zar de cocaina (The tzar of cocaine). Either way, Pablo Escobar was a wealthy drug lord who affected Colombia in both positive and negative ways. It is undeniable that Pablo for better or worse changed Colombia. It is up to the people to decide whether he is the Colombian Robin Hood or the world's greatest outlaw. Pablo knew what it was like to be poor, unable to buy something as necessary as shoes. This allowed him to be able…
Shoot outs day and night are common for cops, miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, buzzing courtrooms are part of a lawyer’s lifestyle and office romances are inevitable for receptionists, well, at least on TV. Many aspects of TV don’t depict real- life scenarios that happen in these job fields and many others, instead they show the exciting, romanticized, alluring and often skewed, concepts of the job. Cops don’t experience shoot outs every day, half their day or…