Where do drugs come from? Most of the marijuana Smuggling routes that come into the United States comes from the south. Columbia is one of the main contributors to the problems of the drug war. Not only does Columbia sell cocaine to the United States, it also sells marijuana. Columbia is responsible for over eighty percent of the cocaine distribution around the world. In Columbia cocaine production is the leading export and moneymaker of the economy. It even passes the production and export of coffee.(Melville, pg. 10) A major reason for this production and selling of drugs in Columbia is the Columbian Drug Cartel.

The cartel is a world-wide organization that makes and sells drugs to make a profit. The reason they are so powerful in Columbia, besides the fact that it brings so much money into the economy, is that the cartel "buys out" the government. The cartel pays out about one hundred million dollars a year to the go

One incident of an "abnormal" way of smuggling drugs into the country was in Texas, border agents discovered over 5.5 million dollars of drugs mixed in with body parts and other hospital waste inside a truck coming over the border to the united States from Mexico. Even in this big tractor-trailer a dog sniffed out the drugs. The contents of the hospital waste was 2,300 pounds of marijuana and 114 pounds of cocaine. These drugs were compacted in 103 bundles wrapped in duct tape so that if there was any surveillance cameras it wouldn't show up because of the contents of the tape.(www.bordercontrol.com.)

On March 7, 1988, a U.S. ambassador arrived in Honduras to personally deliver a letter to the president that said that if they don't turn over Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, one of the top men involved in the Medillin Cartel, or else the U.S. government would reveal the names of the Hondurian military men involved drug trafficking and hold back the multi-million dollar in financial aid. The president said that he wouldn't and the United States went in and literally "kidnaped" Matta(www.yahoo.bordercontrol.com). Matta is now in jail and Honduras was banned from getting funds from the United States for a year and then the United States backed down and then gave them their funds back.

vernment to keep the law enforcement on their side. Besides the law enforcement, the cartel has an army of their own so that makes them more powerful than if they didn't have an army. (www.drugtraffickingcolumbia.com)

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