From Pirates to Drug Lords

From Pirates to Drug Lords

Author: Michael C. Desch

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1998-04-16

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1438400888

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U.S. Marines in Haiti. Pirates or drug traffickers penetrating the southern border of the United States. Special economic arrangements that foster growth for some and hardship for others. These headlines about the Caribbean's international relations and its impact on the United States could date from both the beginning and the end of the twentieth century. Troubled as it is, the Caribbean nonetheless features important accomplishments that will benefit the United States in the long term. This book examines the crucial and timeless impact Caribbean countries have on the United States and the world, and the methods they have been employing to consolidate their democracies, advance prosperity, and maintain the peace through international cooperation among themselves. Its primary aim is to discuss the dominant threat perceptions and security priorities of regional governments, the varied mechanisms in place to promote regional collective action, and the future agenda of U.S. foreign policy toward the Caribbean. Rooted in an historical analysis of continuity and change in the Caribbean's international subsystem, the book analyzes the Caribbean within a broader international pattern, marking a tension in world affairs between the global and the local. In addition, it explores the challenges to governments and peoples in the region posed by changes in its political economy.


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Download or read book From Pirates to Drug Lords written by Michael C. Desch and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Marines in Haiti. Pirates or drug traffickers penetrating the southern border of the United States. Special economic arrangements that foster growth for some and hardship for others. These headlines about the Caribbean's international relations and its impact on the United States could date from both the beginning and the end of the twentieth century. Troubled as it is, the Caribbean nonetheless features important accomplishments that will benefit the United States in the long term. This book examines the crucial and timeless impact Caribbean countries have on the United States and the world, and the methods they have been employing to consolidate their democracies, advance prosperity, and maintain the peace through international cooperation among themselves. Its primary aim is to discuss the dominant threat perceptions and security priorities of regional governments, the varied mechanisms in place to promote regional collective action, and the future agenda of U.S. foreign policy toward the Caribbean. Rooted in an historical analysis of continuity and change in the Caribbean's international subsystem, the book analyzes the Caribbean within a broader international pattern, marking a tension in world affairs between the global and the local. In addition, it explores the challenges to governments and peoples in the region posed by changes in its political economy.


From Pirates to Drug Lords

From Pirates to Drug Lords

Author: Michael C. Desch

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-04-16

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780791437506

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Examines Caribbean countries' impact on the U. S. and the world and how they have consolidated their democracies, advanced prosperity, and maintained peace through collective security and international cooperation.


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Download or read book From Pirates to Drug Lords written by Michael C. Desch and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Caribbean countries' impact on the U. S. and the world and how they have consolidated their democracies, advanced prosperity, and maintained peace through collective security and international cooperation.


The Santa Gabriela

The Santa Gabriela

Author: Clifford Lueck

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1499066333

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Emily’s expensive beach properties are an attractive intermediate drop point for the drug cartel’s smuggling operations. The modified luxury yacht, the Santa Gabriela, becomes the focus of both the problem and eventually the rescue boat that brings Emily and her cohorts back safely from their adventures into the den of a drug lord. Young Susan is threatened and later is instrumental in identifying the ‘pirates’ bringing the contraband onto her beach. Emily’s mother continues her supportive and competitive relationship with her daughter and the raising of Susan.


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Download or read book The Santa Gabriela written by Clifford Lueck and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily’s expensive beach properties are an attractive intermediate drop point for the drug cartel’s smuggling operations. The modified luxury yacht, the Santa Gabriela, becomes the focus of both the problem and eventually the rescue boat that brings Emily and her cohorts back safely from their adventures into the den of a drug lord. Young Susan is threatened and later is instrumental in identifying the ‘pirates’ bringing the contraband onto her beach. Emily’s mother continues her supportive and competitive relationship with her daughter and the raising of Susan.


Drug Wars

Drug Wars

Author: Al Cimino

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Published: 2013-07-15

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1784280445

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With the suppression of the Colombian cartels, the Mexican crime syndicates took over the Latin American drug trade, controlling ninety per cent of the cocaine entering the US. This is their story.


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Download or read book Drug Wars written by Al Cimino and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the suppression of the Colombian cartels, the Mexican crime syndicates took over the Latin American drug trade, controlling ninety per cent of the cocaine entering the US. This is their story.


The Last Pirate

The Last Pirate

Author: Tony Dokoupil

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0385533470

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A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Old Man. He ran stateside operations for one of the largest marijuana rings of the twentieth century. In all they sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana, and Big Tony distributed at least fifty tons of it. To his son he was a rambling man who was also somehow a present father, a self-destructive addict who ruined everything but affection. Here Tony Dokoupil blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age.


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Download or read book The Last Pirate written by Tony Dokoupil and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Old Man. He ran stateside operations for one of the largest marijuana rings of the twentieth century. In all they sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana, and Big Tony distributed at least fifty tons of it. To his son he was a rambling man who was also somehow a present father, a self-destructive addict who ruined everything but affection. Here Tony Dokoupil blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age.


I am a Drug Lord

I am a Drug Lord

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: WelBeck

Published:

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1787398218

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Gangland

Gangland

Author: Jerry Langton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-12-02

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1118014278

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A frightening look at Mexico's new power elite—the Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U.S. and Canada. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels have been reported in U.S. cities). In Gangland, bestselling author Jerry Langton details their frightening stranglehold on the economy and daily life of Mexico today—and what it portends for the future of Mexico and its neighbours. Offering a firsthand look from members of law enforcement, politicians, journalists, and people involved in the drug trade in Mexico and Canada, Gangland sheds a harsh light on the multibillion dollar industry that is the drug trade, the territorial wars, and the on-the-street reality for the United States, with the importation of narco-terrorists. With the unstinting realism and keen analysis that have made him an internationally respected journalist, Langton offers the bleak prospects of what a collapsed government in Mexico might lead to—a new Mexican warlord state not unlike Somalia. Details the emergence of the Mexican drug cartels—the transformation of middlemen who ferried drugs from Bolivia and Colombia to the U.S. and Canada into self-styled entrepreneurs Describes how the growth of the cartels led to violent territorial wars—with Felipe Calderon declaring war on the cartels in 2006 Offers a frightening look at how much the incursion of the drug cartels has affected American life and business—Wachovia and Bank of America have been found guilty of laundering cartel profits An unflinching examination of the world's most lucrative—and deadliest—drug cartel, Gangland lets readers explore, with brutal clarity, the newest front on America's latest war.


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Download or read book Gangland written by Jerry Langton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frightening look at Mexico's new power elite—the Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U.S. and Canada. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels have been reported in U.S. cities). In Gangland, bestselling author Jerry Langton details their frightening stranglehold on the economy and daily life of Mexico today—and what it portends for the future of Mexico and its neighbours. Offering a firsthand look from members of law enforcement, politicians, journalists, and people involved in the drug trade in Mexico and Canada, Gangland sheds a harsh light on the multibillion dollar industry that is the drug trade, the territorial wars, and the on-the-street reality for the United States, with the importation of narco-terrorists. With the unstinting realism and keen analysis that have made him an internationally respected journalist, Langton offers the bleak prospects of what a collapsed government in Mexico might lead to—a new Mexican warlord state not unlike Somalia. Details the emergence of the Mexican drug cartels—the transformation of middlemen who ferried drugs from Bolivia and Colombia to the U.S. and Canada into self-styled entrepreneurs Describes how the growth of the cartels led to violent territorial wars—with Felipe Calderon declaring war on the cartels in 2006 Offers a frightening look at how much the incursion of the drug cartels has affected American life and business—Wachovia and Bank of America have been found guilty of laundering cartel profits An unflinching examination of the world's most lucrative—and deadliest—drug cartel, Gangland lets readers explore, with brutal clarity, the newest front on America's latest war.


Desperados

Desperados

Author: Elaine Shannon

Publisher: Viking Adult

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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A stunning expose of the multinational narcotics trade and a harrowing account from the men and women fighting on the front lines of the war against drugs.


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Download or read book Desperados written by Elaine Shannon and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1988 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning expose of the multinational narcotics trade and a harrowing account from the men and women fighting on the front lines of the war against drugs.


Phantom Marauders of the Bermuda Triangle

Phantom Marauders of the Bermuda Triangle

Author: R. C. Farrington

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781466240926

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Drug lords who will stop at nothing to distribute their illegal drugs have law enforcement officials around the world outgunned and outnumbered and sometimes outwitted. They have made a mockery out of the criminal-justice system and are winning the war on drugs. In response to this failure of law enforcement and the criminal-justice system, a desperate plan to eradicate drug trafficking has been conceived on the tiny island of Bermuda. The Island's Governor with the aid of the United States has declared war on the drug lords of South America and the Caribbean. By issuing a long-forgotten license to privateers to seek and destroy drug smugglers with no legal entanglements, the governor has leveled the playing field on the war on drugs. This Letter of Marque to privateers encompasses the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. These marauders now have the license to attack and destroy drug trafficking enemies of the state. Although the Treaty of Paris of 1856 has long since banned privateering, the United States never signed the treaty. In fact, the United States Constitution still to this day permits Letters of Marque and Reprisal. Turk Black, the captain of the ghost ship, The Phantom and his crew of Bermudians and Americans are hell-bent on wrecking havoc on drug trafficking in the Atlantic Ocean. Not since Blackbeard and his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge has there been so much terror and destruction on the open seas. With bounties on their heads and no safe ports to enter The Phantom and her crew are marked by death squads of the drug cartels. Outnumbered one hundred to one, The Phantom and her crew play a deadly cat and mouse game using modern technology to evade, track and destroy the drug traffickers. The tide is about to turn.


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Download or read book Phantom Marauders of the Bermuda Triangle written by R. C. Farrington and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug lords who will stop at nothing to distribute their illegal drugs have law enforcement officials around the world outgunned and outnumbered and sometimes outwitted. They have made a mockery out of the criminal-justice system and are winning the war on drugs. In response to this failure of law enforcement and the criminal-justice system, a desperate plan to eradicate drug trafficking has been conceived on the tiny island of Bermuda. The Island's Governor with the aid of the United States has declared war on the drug lords of South America and the Caribbean. By issuing a long-forgotten license to privateers to seek and destroy drug smugglers with no legal entanglements, the governor has leveled the playing field on the war on drugs. This Letter of Marque to privateers encompasses the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. These marauders now have the license to attack and destroy drug trafficking enemies of the state. Although the Treaty of Paris of 1856 has long since banned privateering, the United States never signed the treaty. In fact, the United States Constitution still to this day permits Letters of Marque and Reprisal. Turk Black, the captain of the ghost ship, The Phantom and his crew of Bermudians and Americans are hell-bent on wrecking havoc on drug trafficking in the Atlantic Ocean. Not since Blackbeard and his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge has there been so much terror and destruction on the open seas. With bounties on their heads and no safe ports to enter The Phantom and her crew are marked by death squads of the drug cartels. Outnumbered one hundred to one, The Phantom and her crew play a deadly cat and mouse game using modern technology to evade, track and destroy the drug traffickers. The tide is about to turn.


El Chapo Guzman

El Chapo Guzman

Author: J.D. Rockefeller

Publisher: J.D. Rockefeller

Published: 2015-10-28

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1518816215

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When talking about law offenders, terrorist, syndicates, and drug lords, numerous names or groups might come to mind. In Mexico one name resonates clearly, and that is Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera. Guzman is a Mexican drug kingpin who leads the criminal organization Sinaloa Cartel, named for to the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. Juaquin Guzman is also popular with the codename "El Chapo Guzman" or "The Shorty Guzman" because of his stature of 5 ft. 6 in (1.68 m). In 2003, he earned his reputation of being the top Mexican drug lord after the arrest of Osiel Cardenas of the Gulf Cartel, rival of Guzman and considered as the world's most influential drug barons by the United States Department of the Treasury. El Chapo Guzman was the second most powerful individual in Mexico next to Carlos Slim. Guzman was considered the 10th wealthiest man in Mexico in 2011 and held the 1,140th position throughout the globe, having a net worth of about US$1 billion. US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) believes that he has already surpassed the power and influence of Pablo Escobar, who is considered the godfather of the drug world. The Chicago Crime Commission called Guzman Public Enemy Number One in 2013 for the impact of his criminal link in Chicago, although there was no proof that Guzman went in that city. Al Capone was last person to obtain such notoriety in 1930. Guzman was seized in Guatemala in 1993, extradited, and punished with 20 years imprisonment in Mexico for assassination and drug trading. He was able to break free from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001 after inducing the prison guards. Because of this, he became wanted by the United States, the government of Mexico, and by INTERPOL. There was a US$5 million prize granted by the US for any information towards to his capture. On the other hand, the Mexican government provided a 60 million pesos reward, or about US$3.8 million, for details on the whereabouts of Guzman. On February 22, 2014, El Chapo Guzman was arrested in Mexico by the Mexican authorities. He was located inside a fourth-floor room at 608 Avenida del Mar beachfront Miramar condominium Mazatlan, Sinaloa and was seized without a gunshot fired. On July 11, 2015 Guzman was able to break out of prison once again. In this eBook, the escape of El Chapo will be highlighted, along with his biographical information.


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Download or read book El Chapo Guzman written by J.D. Rockefeller and published by J.D. Rockefeller. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When talking about law offenders, terrorist, syndicates, and drug lords, numerous names or groups might come to mind. In Mexico one name resonates clearly, and that is Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera. Guzman is a Mexican drug kingpin who leads the criminal organization Sinaloa Cartel, named for to the Mexican Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. Juaquin Guzman is also popular with the codename "El Chapo Guzman" or "The Shorty Guzman" because of his stature of 5 ft. 6 in (1.68 m). In 2003, he earned his reputation of being the top Mexican drug lord after the arrest of Osiel Cardenas of the Gulf Cartel, rival of Guzman and considered as the world's most influential drug barons by the United States Department of the Treasury. El Chapo Guzman was the second most powerful individual in Mexico next to Carlos Slim. Guzman was considered the 10th wealthiest man in Mexico in 2011 and held the 1,140th position throughout the globe, having a net worth of about US$1 billion. US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) believes that he has already surpassed the power and influence of Pablo Escobar, who is considered the godfather of the drug world. The Chicago Crime Commission called Guzman Public Enemy Number One in 2013 for the impact of his criminal link in Chicago, although there was no proof that Guzman went in that city. Al Capone was last person to obtain such notoriety in 1930. Guzman was seized in Guatemala in 1993, extradited, and punished with 20 years imprisonment in Mexico for assassination and drug trading. He was able to break free from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001 after inducing the prison guards. Because of this, he became wanted by the United States, the government of Mexico, and by INTERPOL. There was a US$5 million prize granted by the US for any information towards to his capture. On the other hand, the Mexican government provided a 60 million pesos reward, or about US$3.8 million, for details on the whereabouts of Guzman. On February 22, 2014, El Chapo Guzman was arrested in Mexico by the Mexican authorities. He was located inside a fourth-floor room at 608 Avenida del Mar beachfront Miramar condominium Mazatlan, Sinaloa and was seized without a gunshot fired. On July 11, 2015 Guzman was able to break out of prison once again. In this eBook, the escape of El Chapo will be highlighted, along with his biographical information.