The Mammoth Book of Drug Barons by Paul Copperwaite

Author:Paul Copperwaite [Copperwaite, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, General, law, Drugs & the Law, Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminal Procedure, Social Science, Criminology
ISBN: 9781849015424
Google: PBTBBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-01-27T23:25:02.140950+00:00

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The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took over the World

Tom Feiling

In “The Candy Machine”, writer, documentary-maker and former Colombia resident Tom Feiling illustrates the corrosive effect of cocaine traffic around the world. As the following extract shows, large-scale smuggling operations would be increasingly impossible without the collusion of law enforcement and Customs officials, whether in the supplying or receiving country. One can only assume this will continue as surveillance technologies improve.

The Cali cartel’s effects on Mexican society have been touched on in chapter 6. Durango state official George Torres, for example, describes the situation in the state’s jails such as that in Gomez Palacio as “a time bomb”. In the state of Zacatecas the Gulf cartel broke into a jail in May 2009 and freed at least fifty inmates. Thousands have been killed in drug-related violence and president Felipe Calderon has set aside 40,000 troops to fight the cartels. The violence is down, purely and simply, to disputes for dominance, and its influence on wider Mexican and Caribbean society is further documented here . . .

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