The film Traffic, which won several Oscars in 2001 tells several stories related to drug use. A young man from a wealthy family, whose father is a high government official related to control illegal drug traffic, go down to the slums of the city, selling her body for drugs, but is ultimately saved by a rehabilitation program (or so we think) . A businessman, who has won billions of dollars in international drug trafficking, faces a lawsuit, but he manages to hire a murderer to delete all key witnesses.
A police officer in Tijuana, Mexico, who is trying to stop the transit of drugs across the border from Mexico (via airplanes and trucks), learns that the military, government officials and their own head, are fully involved in drug trafficking. This intense and harrowing film tells many stories, but it is only fiction.
real life is often more complex than fiction. Currently the drug is the main industry of black market. The demand for rich countries like the United States generates lucrative markets in poor countries. In these countries the drug affects the lives of almost everyone, even indirectly. The poorest farmers find it easier to cultivate coca, opium, marijuana and poppies for the drug industry, which other crops are unlikely to exit in the legitimate market.
The drug trade generates profits of billions of dollars, and simultaneously promotes organized crime worldwide. Some poorer countries such as Afghanistan and Colombia, and some governments whose gross domestic product (GDP) is lower than that of many multinational companies, become Narco-states.
In these cases, the State is totally dependent on the drug market to survive, and consumers all over the world, along with their families and friends, promote this market.
international drug trafficking is a major topic of global importance and can hardly grasp its scope by using old concepts of crime and control. At the beginning of the decade 1990, U.S. citizens spent 110 billion dollars a year on drugs, generating huge profits for traffickers.
A police officer in Tijuana, Mexico, who is trying to stop the transit of drugs across the border from Mexico (via airplanes and trucks), learns that the military, government officials and their own head, are fully involved in drug trafficking. This intense and harrowing film tells many stories, but it is only fiction.
real life is often more complex than fiction. Currently the drug is the main industry of black market. The demand for rich countries like the United States generates lucrative markets in poor countries. In these countries the drug affects the lives of almost everyone, even indirectly. The poorest farmers find it easier to cultivate coca, opium, marijuana and poppies for the drug industry, which other crops are unlikely to exit in the legitimate market.
The drug trade generates profits of billions of dollars, and simultaneously promotes organized crime worldwide. Some poorer countries such as Afghanistan and Colombia, and some governments whose gross domestic product (GDP) is lower than that of many multinational companies, become Narco-states.
In these cases, the State is totally dependent on the drug market to survive, and consumers all over the world, along with their families and friends, promote this market.
international drug trafficking is a major topic of global importance and can hardly grasp its scope by using old concepts of crime and control. At the beginning of the decade 1990, U.S. citizens spent 110 billion dollars a year on drugs, generating huge profits for traffickers.
Sources: Jordan (1999), Cohen and Kennedy (2000:161)
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