My research for this web page was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_trade. The ilegal drug trade is a global black marketing consisting in packing, distribution and packaging and the sale of psychoactive substances. The illegality and the production of these substances consist on the geographic location. The producing countries are the Middle East, Far East and South America, and the countries that consume it are Europe and US. The economic profiting that the people that are in that business get is a lot so this business grows very fast. The social consequences of these substances are violence, crime, and people in prison. In a place where the drugs are not prohibited, its more common for a illegal drug trade to develop. Most nations think of the illegal drug trade a very serious problem. In 1989 the us went to panama to finish the drug trade that come form panama. Some estimates of what profits do all the people that negotiated with these illegal drugs is of 400 billion dollars at the 2000, and at the 2003 they estimates 13 billion I think this is very good because the problem is getting smaller. The major consumers are United States and Europe and the major producers are Afghanistan mostly heroin and Colombia mostly cocaine and also a lot of heroin. There are differences between trafficking and distribution. Trafficking includes smuggling across borders, and distribution lately is being in much smaller scale. A mule is a criminal hired by smuggling organization travel carrying drugs. Mules are used to pass the drugs against the borders of the countries. There are two ways of distribution a hierarchy and a hub-and-spoke layout. A hierarchal negotiation means the boss use its one men to smuggle, or to sale and distribute the drugs. A hub-and-spoke uses the gangs and local groups to sale to them. The cartel is one of these groups. And the cartel had many organizations and other groups are allies of them so there are a lot of people. Smuggling is mostly made by small boats and yachts, air vehicles and gangs that are paid to do the job. Smugglers had also build submarines to distribute the drugs. To many places but not many often these submarines get to their destiny. Sometimes small aircrafts are full with cocaine and they have to go to some place to take this drugs.
Sometimes the whole sellers take the drugs form the smugglers and they sell it to groups of gags or mafias. Some times the mafias take it and alter the chemical composition to have a more pure drug. If its more pure they can sell it more expensive.
The most know recent drug cartels are the Medellín cartel Colombia, norte del valle Colombia, Tijuana Mexico cartel sonora and Tamaulipas from Mexico and puerto rico. The Mexico are drug trafficking cartels that distribute drugs. But the Medellín cartel had been the most powerful cartel, this cartel was in commanded of Pablo Escobar.
The drug business like other business has higher profit margins than the producers and 80% of the world cocaine worth about 25 billion a year sold just in the us. The most popular belief is that the money of the drugs does not go back to Latin America they stay in the us to be laundered. The problem of the 9/11 had difficult the us to center their government in one problem and solve it fast. some Americans said that more effort had to be on the problem with the cartels ad the drug distribution.
I think that the us should base their government on the problem with the drugs distribution and the cartels. I am not saying they had to forgot completely the 9/11 problem but the difference is that that already happen and a that is not going to happen again until the terrorist group do it. But the problem of the cartel and drugs is that each day drug is getting in the us, and each day Childs are using the drugs so these problem is damaging their future presidents and workers that are the children. This project of teen life wiki had teach me a lot of new things and they had been very interesting.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
The RUF
In this blog I am going to talk about an African guerrilla or terrorist group. This group is called the revolutionary united front or also known by RUF. This is a rebel army that started in sierra Leona in 1991 and end in 2002. The purpose, why the RUF form, was because they where in opposition in sierra Leona government.
When this group began they where not to violent they have post that said no more slaves no more masters. The power and the wealth are for the people. The goal of the RUF was to take the government of sierra Leona; these groups really don’t talk about how the government would be when they take control of it. This group did not announced for who they where fighting for if they where fighting for a region or something. In 1995 some negotiations of peace where tried to be done with RUF. But they said we want sierra Leona to have democracy and they want a new sierra Leona with more justice and pan Africanism.
The RUF was from by a group of men called Foday Sankoh and two more Abu Kanuh and Rashid Mansaray, and there was substantial assistance from Charles Taylor form Liberia. At first RUF was very popular between sierra Leonan`s many argued that there was many corruption in the government and there should be free education, health care and the money of the diamonds should be for all the people.
Sankoh really don’t hold his promise that he had to share the diamonds with all. He uses the money of the diamonds to buy weapons for him and Taylor. With the diamond mines in control of the rebels the RUF only need to secure the base and they would take all the money of sierra Leona. The sierra Leona government collapsed and the ordinary citizens become trap in RUF fronts. Then the RUF and the AFRC became untied because of the invasion of Nigeria and West African countries. The war cost like 200,000 people.
The RUF made many atrocities with the people they used many child soldiers, and they force them to do barbarities. Many boys and girls that didn’t fight in battle were forced to be prostitutes of the soldiers. The Childs that had to go to battle sometimes where forced to murder their own parents. The RUF members carved the initials on their chest that said RUF. Many officers put cocaine in open cuts to make them maniac and fearless in the battlefield. A little game of them was to bet on the sex of an unborn baby and then they open the mother to determine the winner.
In response of the government of killing RUF troops they made a system of cutting hands of captured soldiers and send them back with the message you don’t shoot to your own brothers. A daily activity of the RUF was the amputation at the end of the war ten thousand sierra leonans had been amputated. Many of the reasons they do this was because the amputees can’t grow more rice so they could not feed government soldiers. Other reason they used amputation was because in the government there was a slogan you have the power in your hands to choose a good government, so they cut the hands so they couldn’t vote.
I think that RUF members where very cruel and evil with the people. Really the RUF didn’t have a clear purpose for what they where fighting for so they where like killing people for no purpose and there is really no purpose for killing a person. The way they use the child’s and al the amputees they left.
For my next blog I would going to post about the drugs affects the people in there health and how they affect the countries, like how do the people use them to gain money and what are the countries with highest problems in that.
When this group began they where not to violent they have post that said no more slaves no more masters. The power and the wealth are for the people. The goal of the RUF was to take the government of sierra Leona; these groups really don’t talk about how the government would be when they take control of it. This group did not announced for who they where fighting for if they where fighting for a region or something. In 1995 some negotiations of peace where tried to be done with RUF. But they said we want sierra Leona to have democracy and they want a new sierra Leona with more justice and pan Africanism.
The RUF was from by a group of men called Foday Sankoh and two more Abu Kanuh and Rashid Mansaray, and there was substantial assistance from Charles Taylor form Liberia. At first RUF was very popular between sierra Leonan`s many argued that there was many corruption in the government and there should be free education, health care and the money of the diamonds should be for all the people.
Sankoh really don’t hold his promise that he had to share the diamonds with all. He uses the money of the diamonds to buy weapons for him and Taylor. With the diamond mines in control of the rebels the RUF only need to secure the base and they would take all the money of sierra Leona. The sierra Leona government collapsed and the ordinary citizens become trap in RUF fronts. Then the RUF and the AFRC became untied because of the invasion of Nigeria and West African countries. The war cost like 200,000 people.
The RUF made many atrocities with the people they used many child soldiers, and they force them to do barbarities. Many boys and girls that didn’t fight in battle were forced to be prostitutes of the soldiers. The Childs that had to go to battle sometimes where forced to murder their own parents. The RUF members carved the initials on their chest that said RUF. Many officers put cocaine in open cuts to make them maniac and fearless in the battlefield. A little game of them was to bet on the sex of an unborn baby and then they open the mother to determine the winner.
In response of the government of killing RUF troops they made a system of cutting hands of captured soldiers and send them back with the message you don’t shoot to your own brothers. A daily activity of the RUF was the amputation at the end of the war ten thousand sierra leonans had been amputated. Many of the reasons they do this was because the amputees can’t grow more rice so they could not feed government soldiers. Other reason they used amputation was because in the government there was a slogan you have the power in your hands to choose a good government, so they cut the hands so they couldn’t vote.
I think that RUF members where very cruel and evil with the people. Really the RUF didn’t have a clear purpose for what they where fighting for so they where like killing people for no purpose and there is really no purpose for killing a person. The way they use the child’s and al the amputees they left.
For my next blog I would going to post about the drugs affects the people in there health and how they affect the countries, like how do the people use them to gain money and what are the countries with highest problems in that.
Monday, February 19, 2007
The Farc
I in this post I am goignt to talk about the farc, this is a guerilla group in colombia that is very dangerous. First I am going to take overall the farc and then I am goign to talk about the seventh guerilla conference. Overal info is the introduction to what is guerilla and what effects it have had in colombia. And the seventh guerilla conference was a meeting where the guerilla decide many things they would do for the future.
The farc is commaned by Manuel Marulanda Velez , also knowed by ´´Tiro Fijo´´ and other seven leaders like commander Jorge Briceño also knowed by ´´Mono Jojoy´´. The farc is organized in urban fronts or groups of soldiers that cover some areas of the country.
The farc has announced itself as political and military, this means that in the farc there are also members that work in politicy. The farc announced the government that they represent the rular poor, and they are against the wealthy . The objective of the farc is to take over the government and established a type of communist country in which everything is equal.
The farc has stated that they can solve the problems peacefully, but the government the government has to give the farc some land and other conditions, like leting free many of the members of the farc that had been arrested.
There had been critics against the farc that are against their goal, because the farc is always fighting with the paramilitary forces, and they had killed and kidnapped innocent civilians.
The farc uses children to fight for them, there is a percentage that saids that 20 or 30 percentage of the farc combatants are childs and they are below 18 years old and some are as younger as 12 years old. When a child try to escape from the farc they are tortured and sometimes are killed.
The US relationship with the farc is very bad, the farc hates the US and the US has the farc for their country like terrorist.
Jacobo Arenas was the main figure for the seventh guerilla conference in 1982. they stated some types of goals they would achieved. They put there initials for EP that means army of the people that in spanish menas ejercito del pueblo. Also they estabished a ruled that says that they can seize power peacefully or by using ilegal ways.
Using the the guidance of Jacobo Arenas and Manuel Marulanda the seventh guerilla conference was a good step for the guerilla to build there future socialist state.
Some US and war experts had announced that Manuel Marulanda is one of the most veteran member of the farc and he is the boss of the farc so he is the boss of the most dangerous and most capable guerilla in all the world. Manuel marulanda is also called as tiro fijo because when he was a combatant he was very accurately at his shots. Analist said that because of the poorness manuel marulanda live and the lack of eductaion he receive he has a motive to fight because of all the things he lived. And Jacobo Arenas receive a good eductaion and he always lived in the political life and he tought that to defeat colmbia was easy, until the united states cames and allied with Colombia.
The US began helpign colmbia since the cubn revlution in 1959 since this time the us had increased the military forces in latin america. The us military forces train to live and fight in eviorments like the colombia jungles. Also te spanish language was spread to many members of the US military so this was easier for them to fight in latin america. Because of this movement of us military in latin america, Areas said that this would be a great challenge to fight against the major potential power in the world.
Jacobo Arenas made a significant achievment In the seventh guerilla conference his goal was to change the guerilla to be a militarized group to the army of the people since that they us in the uniforms flags of colombia and things that made them look like patriotic. Also Arenas ivest a large amount of money on weapons and uniforms and things for the army. This made look the army a well organized army.
In 1990 Jacob Arenas died from a heart attack some of the the guerilla claimed that he had been murdered by some guerilla lower ranks. Then it was announced that very rarely Jacobo Arenas had ordered to execute himself.
In the future I would like to research about other guerillas of other countries like the guerilla of africa and also what are the countries with guerilla doing to solve this problem.
My web pages for this blog post where
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farc#Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farc#Seventh_Guerrilla_Conference_of_the_FARC-EP
The farc is commaned by Manuel Marulanda Velez , also knowed by ´´Tiro Fijo´´ and other seven leaders like commander Jorge Briceño also knowed by ´´Mono Jojoy´´. The farc is organized in urban fronts or groups of soldiers that cover some areas of the country.
The farc has announced itself as political and military, this means that in the farc there are also members that work in politicy. The farc announced the government that they represent the rular poor, and they are against the wealthy . The objective of the farc is to take over the government and established a type of communist country in which everything is equal.
The farc has stated that they can solve the problems peacefully, but the government the government has to give the farc some land and other conditions, like leting free many of the members of the farc that had been arrested.
There had been critics against the farc that are against their goal, because the farc is always fighting with the paramilitary forces, and they had killed and kidnapped innocent civilians.
The farc uses children to fight for them, there is a percentage that saids that 20 or 30 percentage of the farc combatants are childs and they are below 18 years old and some are as younger as 12 years old. When a child try to escape from the farc they are tortured and sometimes are killed.
The US relationship with the farc is very bad, the farc hates the US and the US has the farc for their country like terrorist.
Jacobo Arenas was the main figure for the seventh guerilla conference in 1982. they stated some types of goals they would achieved. They put there initials for EP that means army of the people that in spanish menas ejercito del pueblo. Also they estabished a ruled that says that they can seize power peacefully or by using ilegal ways.
Using the the guidance of Jacobo Arenas and Manuel Marulanda the seventh guerilla conference was a good step for the guerilla to build there future socialist state.
Some US and war experts had announced that Manuel Marulanda is one of the most veteran member of the farc and he is the boss of the farc so he is the boss of the most dangerous and most capable guerilla in all the world. Manuel marulanda is also called as tiro fijo because when he was a combatant he was very accurately at his shots. Analist said that because of the poorness manuel marulanda live and the lack of eductaion he receive he has a motive to fight because of all the things he lived. And Jacobo Arenas receive a good eductaion and he always lived in the political life and he tought that to defeat colmbia was easy, until the united states cames and allied with Colombia.
The US began helpign colmbia since the cubn revlution in 1959 since this time the us had increased the military forces in latin america. The us military forces train to live and fight in eviorments like the colombia jungles. Also te spanish language was spread to many members of the US military so this was easier for them to fight in latin america. Because of this movement of us military in latin america, Areas said that this would be a great challenge to fight against the major potential power in the world.
Jacobo Arenas made a significant achievment In the seventh guerilla conference his goal was to change the guerilla to be a militarized group to the army of the people since that they us in the uniforms flags of colombia and things that made them look like patriotic. Also Arenas ivest a large amount of money on weapons and uniforms and things for the army. This made look the army a well organized army.
In 1990 Jacob Arenas died from a heart attack some of the the guerilla claimed that he had been murdered by some guerilla lower ranks. Then it was announced that very rarely Jacobo Arenas had ordered to execute himself.
In the future I would like to research about other guerillas of other countries like the guerilla of africa and also what are the countries with guerilla doing to solve this problem.
My web pages for this blog post where
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farc#Overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farc#Seventh_Guerrilla_Conference_of_the_FARC-EP
Saturday, February 17, 2007
colombia and the IAG
I am going to take about in this post about the problem of Colombia and the IAG. Salvatore Mancuso a ex captain of the illegal armed groups had admitted that he had killed more than 300 people and that many politics of the government are allies of the IAG and they helped the IAG. He told that the politics receive money of the IAG if they help them do business in the government. Mancuso is talking, so he had not as high sentence because he killed 300 people but that people was not innocent. He is telling the names of many politics allied of the IAG and of the commanders and captains of the IAG . the united states had been very helpful with Colombia to combat the IAG the U.S gives each year $700 million. The president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe had made a new program called demobilization, this means hat any member of the IAG can surrender and they have a normal life and work and recover. But some of them that have a high rang have receive charges in the court. This is what is happening now with Salvatore Mancuso. This is an inform of the IAG in Colombia and what is Colombia doing to have a solution to this problem. My web pages for this post is http://www.csdp.org/news/news/colombia.htm.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Drugs and Terrorism
Sorry but I going to change my topic, It is bad for me because I had write a lot about smoking and I like that topic but I have to change because there are already two people In my class with smoking so is not possible for me keep on with that topic. I would change my topic to how is terrorism related to drugs, and I am going o be with a friend of the b lass called Sergio. I really don’t know about that topic but I am going to research on it to know more about it. Because terrorism related with drugs . My web pages for this research would be
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/internationalcrime/drugs-en.asp
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/Con2003.htm
http://www.narcoterror.org/
I think that terrorism mi related with drugs because in places like Colombia we have a huge problem with many groups of terrorist that there goal is to destroy Colombia and they put bombs and kill many people. Te question is where do that gorillas get the money to buy all that expensive equipment. the gorillas gained the money because they are drug dealers they negotiated they sell the drugs and with that money they buy the weapons. This is not in all cases in the case of Osama Bin Laden and the twin towers this is different, Osama’s money come from petroleum because he comes from a rich Arab family. In Colombia the way to destroy the gorillas I think is by destroying the plants that are plant to produce the drugs. By this method they couldn’t have money so they could by the weapons.
If the government of countries that have problems with the armed forces in the world do not exterminate the drugs of their countries, each time the armed force would expand more and more, because they can by better armament, more tank, more cars, more bombs until they control of that countries. Something good about this relationship between drugs and terrorism is that is that by tracking the terrorist you can track the drug dealers.
I think that the problem of drugs and the illegal armed groups have a great relationship, this is a very expanded topic I would like to specialized more in one country or in some area in the world so I could know more and more of this, what I wrote today was about the general info abut the relationship with drugs and terrorism. In the future I would like to know more about what are the countries with more IAG and where is there money comes from. I would like to also know about what are the solutions the countries are making to improve this problem. I am going to research about this info and I am going to inform you about this in my next week post. If you want to know more about this check my links.
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/internationalcrime/drugs-en.asp
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/Con2003.htm
http://www.narcoterror.org/
I think that terrorism mi related with drugs because in places like Colombia we have a huge problem with many groups of terrorist that there goal is to destroy Colombia and they put bombs and kill many people. Te question is where do that gorillas get the money to buy all that expensive equipment. the gorillas gained the money because they are drug dealers they negotiated they sell the drugs and with that money they buy the weapons. This is not in all cases in the case of Osama Bin Laden and the twin towers this is different, Osama’s money come from petroleum because he comes from a rich Arab family. In Colombia the way to destroy the gorillas I think is by destroying the plants that are plant to produce the drugs. By this method they couldn’t have money so they could by the weapons.
If the government of countries that have problems with the armed forces in the world do not exterminate the drugs of their countries, each time the armed force would expand more and more, because they can by better armament, more tank, more cars, more bombs until they control of that countries. Something good about this relationship between drugs and terrorism is that is that by tracking the terrorist you can track the drug dealers.
I think that the problem of drugs and the illegal armed groups have a great relationship, this is a very expanded topic I would like to specialized more in one country or in some area in the world so I could know more and more of this, what I wrote today was about the general info abut the relationship with drugs and terrorism. In the future I would like to know more about what are the countries with more IAG and where is there money comes from. I would like to also know about what are the solutions the countries are making to improve this problem. I am going to research about this info and I am going to inform you about this in my next week post. If you want to know more about this check my links.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
why smoking is bad for your health
Your body does not need smoking like it needs food sleeping or water. Your body is very intelligent when you first smoke you feel if your throat was burning and your mouth hurts. That’s why a smoker has to smoke many times until he doesn’t fell the pain. The experts said that each time you smoke a cigarette you are taking 20 or 5 minutes of your life, this in the life span rate of people. When you smoke the density on your bones is less so it’s easily to have problems like osteoporosis. Other problems you could have when you smoke is wrinkles, bad teeth’s and your mouth and your shirt and cloth smell bad. The horrible death is the death of smoking because you start like choking with no air and you die affixed. Smoking is one of the things that most harms your health, do you really want to die younger and affixed. My links for this post where http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smoking.html, http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html
Friday, February 09, 2007
SMOKING
My teen life wiki projects would be about smoking, all the effects for smoking all about smoking why do people smoke for, and what are the effects of smoking.
Cigarettes are very bad they cause cancer and emphysema. Almost all the people know that cigarettes are bad for your health, in all public places the cigarettes are not allowed. Now the companies of cigarettes are not allowed to put any publicity in cars or in television. When a people start smoking, they can’t stop this is called addiction. Many people that start smoking are teenagers and some of the reasons that teens start smoking are because they see them look older and that is very true if you want to see yourself with yellow teeth and wrinkles. In the Tobacco and cigarettes there is something called nicotine this is a substance that make you addictive, this substance make your body to be acquainted to it so when you are not smoking you are not happy. Something bad about this is that the addictive people can lose millions in cigarettes each year. Some teen tell that they smoke to be accepted by there friends if true maybe you are accepted but your are going to also be accepted in the hospital when you are almost dying. Some teens smoke because they tell it relax them this is not true when you are smoking your heart beat faster so you are not relaxed. Other ways by which some teens smoke is because they want to lose weight, this is true they lose weight but I preferred to be little fat than to die of emphysema. People smoke if there parents or relative smoke to this is a more complicated case because if you see your parents smoke you would think that it’s good so you would smoke too. That’s why there are so many programs telling to the parents that they can cause bad influence to the kids if they smoke in front of the children. My conclusion is that cigarettes are bad and they cause a lot of damage in your body. You can never smoke because they friends tell you too or any reasons that I have listed. If you do not smoke you would have a healthier and happier live, also you are going to live happier with your family some smokers are also violent with there family and they feel if they where the gangsters. My links for this post where.
In smoking I would like to investigate more about at what years do the cigarettes affect more people. In what year do smoking became so famous, at what years do the boys become smoking. What does the people feel when they smoke and why it becomes so addictive, we know that because of the nicotine but why is the nicotine so addictive.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/smoking/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier http://www.smokefree.gov/ http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/TendringDC/Community/Young+People/Crucial+Crew/WhySmokingisBadforYou.htm
Cigarettes are very bad they cause cancer and emphysema. Almost all the people know that cigarettes are bad for your health, in all public places the cigarettes are not allowed. Now the companies of cigarettes are not allowed to put any publicity in cars or in television. When a people start smoking, they can’t stop this is called addiction. Many people that start smoking are teenagers and some of the reasons that teens start smoking are because they see them look older and that is very true if you want to see yourself with yellow teeth and wrinkles. In the Tobacco and cigarettes there is something called nicotine this is a substance that make you addictive, this substance make your body to be acquainted to it so when you are not smoking you are not happy. Something bad about this is that the addictive people can lose millions in cigarettes each year. Some teen tell that they smoke to be accepted by there friends if true maybe you are accepted but your are going to also be accepted in the hospital when you are almost dying. Some teens smoke because they tell it relax them this is not true when you are smoking your heart beat faster so you are not relaxed. Other ways by which some teens smoke is because they want to lose weight, this is true they lose weight but I preferred to be little fat than to die of emphysema. People smoke if there parents or relative smoke to this is a more complicated case because if you see your parents smoke you would think that it’s good so you would smoke too. That’s why there are so many programs telling to the parents that they can cause bad influence to the kids if they smoke in front of the children. My conclusion is that cigarettes are bad and they cause a lot of damage in your body. You can never smoke because they friends tell you too or any reasons that I have listed. If you do not smoke you would have a healthier and happier live, also you are going to live happier with your family some smokers are also violent with there family and they feel if they where the gangsters. My links for this post where.
In smoking I would like to investigate more about at what years do the cigarettes affect more people. In what year do smoking became so famous, at what years do the boys become smoking. What does the people feel when they smoke and why it becomes so addictive, we know that because of the nicotine but why is the nicotine so addictive.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/smoking/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier http://www.smokefree.gov/ http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/TendringDC/Community/Young+People/Crucial+Crew/WhySmokingisBadforYou.htm
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