Drug Wars

Week 12 – Speaking Truth to Power

This week’s lecture is also the main subject my groups video project, so there have been several main aspects that we’ve looked at together that I found to be particularly interesting. The first one which I found to be really compelling was history of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. The story […]

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Week 12 – Speaking Truth to Power

This week’s lecture is also the main subject my groups video project, so there have been several main aspects that we’ve looked at together that I found to be particularly interesting. The first one which I found to be really compelling was history of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. The story […]

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Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power

What I found very interesting this week is how profit in the drug wars is so reliant on the criminalization of the drug trade. The resistance of the state actually benefits the cartels, as it makes the prices soar. As more restriction is placed on drugs, the higher the demand is, thus the cartels make […]

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The Beginnings of Pablo Escobar and the Drug Wars

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, infamous for being the most powerful man in the drug trade, kicked off the Drug War in the early 1980’s when he started trafficking cocaine from Colombia by plane to Miami, Florida. But his rise to power and wealth started before that time and even before his involvement with cocaine – … Continue reading The Beginnings of Pablo Escobar and the Drug Wars →

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