The Mexican DTOs International Drug Traffickers

The Mexican DTOs are international drug traffickers who are highly defined command-and-control structures that yield, convey and dispense illegitimate drugs. The group is held responsible for large portion of drugs that get into America every year. The goals of the organization are no different from any other business where income is desired through the sale of the product at hand. The group however engages in the illegal sale and transportation of drugs that have been prohibited in the United States knowingly (Shanty, 2011). This organization maintains distribution networks where they supply their drugs in around two hundred and thirty cities in the United States. In the process of this drug trafficking there is incorporated the use of weapons which most often lead to other crimes in the process of trafficking. However much this drugs are even sold at large scale in the country there are laws that are against the use of some of the drugs such as morphine, cocaine, heroin and opium. This is still done in the far much growing black Market where they still supply the drugs to the addicted and prospective users.

This drugs always have the major origins where they are extracted where for example the main source from which the drugs smuggled in Europe is always from Asian countries. The drugs are mainly from Afghanistan where farmers harvest that which is trafficked into West and Central parts of Asia. Also other drugs are like opium is produced in Mexico since the end of the nineteenth century (Ghodse, 2008). This local production begun following the prohibition of Mexican state on their previous business of importation of opium into the country. Altogether marijuana was also produced in Mexico in increasing quantities even after being banned the production would still be so much that it was measured in tons. Later on production of marijuana was also introduced in Colombia where after some time the government noticed the increasing and extensive production and consumption. This led the government into planning anti-drug campaigns to fight its growth. This and many others like Peru and Cuba were the main sources from which drugs were extracted and thereafter distributed to various parts of the globe for consumption.

The organization and structure of this drug trafficking business is one of the very complicated such that tracing how this drugs move from their origin to the consumer. There is no clear trace of the people who are involved in this smuggling which is very normal because the trade is illegal. It is also clear that this trafficking organizations from countries with less or drug laws had the opportunity to make large profits from trafficking this drugs illegally to the United States. Despite this drug business being conducted illegally the organizations have increased in tally and this has led to them to being diversified in structure (Bunck, & Fowler, 2012). This trafficking now ranges from family based operations where secrecy is an essential aid for its success. This then extend to trafficking of large shipments are sent to associates across border discreetly involving hundreds of people with roles. This varying is what often makes it difficult to identify the groups that are doing the smuggling for they have different scale and MO. A professor studied this drug smugglers issue and noted that the drug organizations can be classified into four main types including “Family business”. This are those which cohesiveness is part of the organization, have a clear structure, in which authority and trust is based on family ties. Another type is the “Freelance” where the networks are serene of trivial nonhierarchical entrepreneurial groups of individuals where each individual is involved for personal benefit unlike the family business (Bunck, & Fowler, 2012). There is also “communal businesses” which are flexible organizations where the bonding lies on some issues like having the same ethnicity, nationality, neighborhood dwelling or even nationality. Lastly there is the “corporations” which are large organizations wherein division if labor is well defined and a formal hierarchy is well installed. Despite the good organization of this corporations it is very difficult to follow and get to know who the head is since location is far and secretive. This head operators of this organizations run their businesses from an outside country which harden investigations due to contradicting laws between countries. This individuals who operate in this organizations at times are thought to be politico-military persons who operate in failed states and contain some political agendas.

The supply of this drugs rapidly grows from time to time in different countries in the globe. This smugglers have their major and very definite routes through which they transport their drugs. Some of this includes the northern routes and Balkan which are the main for heroin trafficking linking Afghanistan to huge markets like those of the Western Europe and Russian Federation (Shanty, 2011). There are large flow of drugs mostly into the United States due to the many cities and places where people are consumers of this drugs. Other places where this drugs flow in great percentages are the likes of Mexico, South Africa sometimes also consumes a great percentage of the global production (Ghodse, 2008). This drug distribution is always made successful through different ways just as normal and legal good are transported from one country to another. The operators of this organization always have sure connection to and from the place this drugs should be transported. Sometimes this drugs are always transported by air like into the United States which receives a large number of inflight each year where some of them are related to this drug smuggling. There is also a large number of this drugs that is transported through the seas by ships to different destinations. This are the two very major methods that are used to transport this drugs to their places of consumption.

The major consumer base for this drugs are mostly where they are produced like Afghanistan where the Afghan opium is produced. Heroin is another which is widely consumed by people all over the globe having the leading countries near the Middle East and South-West Asia. The countries consume around thirty nine percent of the global total production. For the same drug, South-East Europe consumes around twenty four percent of the total globe production (Shanty, 2011). The ones who take the third position the consumption of the same consume some ten percent of the total world production which is the Central and Western Europe. Escalating seizures in the Republic of Iran and Turkey in the year 2006-2008 drove to increased heroin seizures. In that year the two countries accounted for more than half of the heroin that is produced in the globe. The North America was estimated to have consumed roughly four hundred wand seventy tons of cocaine in the 2007 and 2008. On the same note cocaine was highly consumed in the 27 European Union and the four Free Trade Association together accounted for consumption of more 0.25 of the total consumption (Shanty, 2011). The two regions were found to have consumed cocaine worth 88billion dollars which surpasses 80 percent of its global market in 2008. This are the major places where this drug smuggling is highly in practice and where the market is alive for consumers are based there.

Terrorism, violence and other crimes are at time as a result of drug trafficking and consumption. Most terrorist organizations always have their major source of income as drug trade where they are financed by the DTOs (Paoli, 2014). They also carry out their drugs distribution with the aid of gangs who help them in distributing this drugs to their customers. This gangs rely on this drug trade to finance their activities across U.S and in this case they do not use very violent ways to control their market. They use the most automatic weapons to maintain control over their business like bribery and threats. However much they use this non-violent methods they also have some violence in their dealings. In most developing countries violent crimes like murder is linked to drug trading which is true. This drug related violence is triggered by poor government, the economy and lack of power within the law enforcement body of a country. In most cases when a country invests so much of its force and energy into fighting the drug trade end up losing and having no gain out of it (Bunck, & Fowler, 2012). Mostly the country ends up becoming a target for terrorists who make the security and stability of the country lame giving room for even more inflow of drugs.

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