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Maddie McFeeley

Los Zetas called Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel - CNN - 2 views

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Mexico Los Zetas Sicarios Drug Trafficking

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  • "the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico."
  • Commandos from the Mexican army deserted and set up a cartel, known as Los Zetas.
  • Maddie McFeeley on 16 Sep 11
     
    Los Zetas were similar to the Sicarios in Colombia, but they were the Mexican drug traffickers.
Maddie McFeeley

Mexico Drug War: Facts About 'Los Zetas' Drug Cartel (PHOTOS) - 1 views

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  • Maddie McFeeley on 17 Sep 11
     
    More information about the Los Zetas in Mexico
alessandro Lannes

Drugs, Violence, and State-Sponsored Protection Rackets in Mexico and Colombia/Drogas, ... - 2 views

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drugs violence colombia

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      alessandro Lannes on 16 Sep 11
       
      Alessandro Lannes
  • Some authors have argued that high violence was the result of Escobar's excessive political ambition (Camacho and López 2001), which made traffickers unnecessarily visible
  • Colombian traffickers faced in penetrating and making stable connections with the political establishment, the event does not by itself explain the highly violent methods of Escobar's organization, which preceded his brief transit through Congress and persisted well after it. The relative centralization and coherence of Escobar's organization were also crucial factors that help explain its employment of highly organized and brutally violent methods.
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  • Pablo Escobar was arrested for the first time for drug trafficking. By 1978 Carlos Lehder had consolidated a network of cocaine trafficking both with us and Colombian citizens, and by the early 1980s two organizations, based in the cities of Medellin and Cali, controlled most cocaine exports (Camacho and López 2001). Since the early 1980s the Medellin traffickers began to employ increasingly violent methods. This violence was the result of three interrelated factors: (1) the inability of Medellin traffickers to successfully penetrate the political establishment, (2) the government's decision to confront traffickers by approving an extradition treaty with the United States, and (3) the relative centralization and internal coherence of Medellin traffickers under the leadership of Pablo Escobar.
  • Escobar was elected to represent Medellin in the Lower Chamber of Congress. Escobar's election generated a strong negative reaction among a wide range of political elites, who opposed the public presence of a trafficker in Congress and successfully pushed for Escobar's loss of political immunity and expulsion from Congress in 1983 (Camacho and López 2001). These events motivated Escobar to react violently against political "oligarchs", who in turn publicly declared war on traffickers by approving an extradition treaty with the us that included narcotics offences. As a reaction to this policy, traffickers led by Escobar created the group "Los Extraditables," responsible for initiating the period of "narco-terrorism" by engaging in strategic violence against the state, targeting high level politicians and carrying out terrorist attacks against the civilian population in an effort to push the government to refrain from making extradition effective
  • sign of Escobar's war against the state was the assassination of the Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara Bonilla in 1984, and, as of 1990, the violence of Medellin traffickers had claimed the lives of some 500 police officers in Medellin, hundreds of civilians in terrorist attacks in Bogota and Medellin, and prominent politicians, including presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galá
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      alessandro Lannes on 17 Sep 11
       
      Pablo Escobar was desperate to get into Congress, when he was kicked out he took drastic measures to get revenge on the people responsible
Cole Blum

Georgia Genocide | Russian claims appear inflated - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

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  • Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, sustained heavy damage in a five-day barrage of rockets and missiles as Russian troops and their local allies battled Georgian forces, and dozens of deaths have been documented.
  • Georgia launched a military operation in South Ossetia, to bring the pro-Russian rebel region under the control of the central government.
  • Kremlin has come out heavily in support of independence for Georgia's breakaway republics, a move that would redraw the borders of the post-Soviet Caucasus region.
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    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11
       
      It is strange for me to hear about thousands of corpses and all of the casualties in the genocide in Georgia. I have heard of the genocide in Yugoslavia, but I have never heard of the genocide in Georgia. This leads me to believe that genocide is so common in the world today that even extreme cases sometimes go a tad under the radar.
    • Cole Blum
      Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11
       
      This quote really stood out to me when I read this article because it shows the selfishness of countries around the world. Everyone looks out for themselves, and this genocide is a perfect example of how people will turn on their own alies just because they are only looking out for themselves. This is probably why a lot of genocide occurs.
  • Shana Thomas on 30 Oct 11
     
    details about genocide; conspiracy theories.  look up Kremlin*
  • Cole Blum on 30 Oct 11
     
    Shana actually shared this.
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