Illegal Drug Trade The War on Drugs

Illegal Drug Trade The War on Drugs

Author: Heinz Duthel
Length: 450 page(s)
Written: Oct 2010
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ISBN-13:978-1466368446
ISBN-10:1466368446
Illegal drug trade
The War on Drugs



The United Nations' Drugs and Crime Tsar Antonio Maria Costa claimed that illegal drug money saved the banking industry from collapse. He claimed he had seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse during 2008. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result. "In many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor...Inter-bank loans were funded by money that originated from the drugs trade and other illegal activities... There were signs that some banks were rescued that way". Costa declined to identify countries or banks that may have received any drug money, saying that would be inappropriate because his office is supposed to address the problem, not apportion blame.


The birth of all Mexican drug cartels is traced to former Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo ('The Godfather'), who in the 1980s controlled all illegal drug trade in Mexico and the corridors across the Mexico-USA border. He started off by smuggling marijuana and opium into the U.S.A., and was the first Mexican drug capo to link up with Colombia's cocaine cartels in the 1980s. Through his connections, Félix Gallardo became the point man for the Medellin cartel, which was run by Pablo Escobar. This was easily accomplished because Félix Gallardo had already established an infrastructure that stood ready to serve the Colombia-based traffickers.


Europe

Improved cooperation of Mexico with the U.S. led to the recent arrests of 755 Sinaloa cartel suspects in U.S. cities and towns, but the U.S. market is being eclipsed by booming demand for cocaine in Europe, where users now pay twice the going U.S. rate.[23] U.S. Attorney General announced September 17, 2008 that an international drug interdiction operation, Project Reckoning, involving law enforcement in the United States, Italy, Canada, Mexico and Guatemala had netted more than 500 organized crime members involved in the cocaine trade. The announcement highlighted the Italian-Mexican cocaine connection.

In December 2010 the government of Spain remarked that Mexican cartels have multiplied their operations in that country, becoming the main entry point of cocaine into Europe.


Illegal drug trade
Black market
Drug
Opium
Heroin
Capital punishment for drug trafficking
Cannabis (drug)
Antonio Maria Costa
Drug cartel
Legality of cannabis
Cannabis
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
French Connection
Ike Atkinson
Methamphetamine
Clandestine chemistry
Rolling meth lab
Temazepam
Benzodiazepine
War on Drugs
Cocaine Coup
Che Guevara
Project MKULTRA
Psychoactive drug
Coca
Luis Carlos Galán
Jaime Pardo Leal
Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
Carlos Pizarro Leongómez
Medellín Cartel
Cali Cartel
Norte del Valle Cartel
Pablo Escobar
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela
José Santacruz Londoño
Money laundering
Valle del Cauca Department
Diego León Montoya Sánchez
Wilber Varela
Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía
Barranquilla
Alberto Santofimio
Proceso 8000
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Vicente Fox
Felipe Calderón
Kevlar
Stratfor
Tijuana Cartel
Beltrán-Leyva Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel
Juárez Cartel
La Familia Michoacana
Gulf Cartel
Los Zetas Cartel
Knights Templar Cartel
Enrique Plancarte Solís
Servando Gómez Martínez
Los Negros
Edgar Valdez Villarreal
Noé Ramírez Mandujano
SIEDO
José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos
Julio César Godoy Toscano
Naval operations of the Mexican Drug War
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno

About the Author

Heinz Duthel
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Heinz Duthel, Master in Philosophy
Born 1950 in Germany
Joint the French Foreign Legion 1966

First book published 1979 (Es ist 5 vor 12) with the assistance of Heinrich Boell, SPK and RH of the German University Bielefeld

Served for several Government Services until 1999
From 2000 till today, Consultant EUISS

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I like to thanks and remember my teacher and best friend I ever had, Dr. Joachim Koch who passed away on 17.9.2008

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