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From Pirates to Drug Lords

Author : Michael C. Desch
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400888
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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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

Author : Michael Charles Desch
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791437490
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book From Pirates to Drug Lords written by Michael Charles Desch and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 184 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

Author : Clifford Lueck
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499066333
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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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.

Desperados

Author : Elaine Shannon
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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 548 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.

Drug Wars

Author : Al Cimino
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784280445
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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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.

Phantom Marauders of the Bermuda Triangle

Author : R. C. Farrington
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781466240926
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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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.

Gangland

Author : Jerry Langton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118014278
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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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.

Narconomics

Author : Tom Wainwright
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395840
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Narconomics written by Tom Wainwright and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work—and stop throwing away 100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the “war” against this global, highly organized business. Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. The cast of characters includes “Bin Laden,” the Bolivian coca guide; “Old Lin,” the Salvadoran gang leader; “Starboy,” the millionaire New Zealand pill maker; and a cozy Mexican grandmother who cooks blueberry pancakes while plotting murder. Along with presidents, cops, and teenage hitmen, they explain such matters as the business purpose for head-to-toe tattoos, how gangs decide whether to compete or collude, and why cartels care a surprising amount about corporate social responsibility. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them.

Drug Lords

Author : Ron Chepesiuk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905379033
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Drug Lords written by Ron Chepesiuk and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infiltrator

Author : Robert Mazur
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552172059
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Infiltrator written by Robert Mazur and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in expensive hotels, drank the world's finest champagnes, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's designer suits and hidden away in his quality briefcase, recorders whirred quietly, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. Then, at his own staged wedding, he led a dramatic takedown that shook the underworld. In the end, more than eighty men and women were charged worldwide. Operation C-Chase became one of the most successful undercover operations in the history of US law enforcement, and evidence gathered during the bust proved critical to the conviction of General Manuel Noriega. The Infiltrator is the story of how Mazur helped bring down the unscrupulous bankers who manipulated complex international finance systems to serve drug lords - including Pablo Escobar - corrupt politicians, tax cheats and terrorists. It is a shocking chronicle of the rise and fall of perhaps the biggest and most intricate money-laundering operation of all time - an enterprise that cleaned and moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And, at its heart, it's a stunning and vivid portrait of an undercover life and the sacrifice it requires. Filled with dangerous lies, near misses and harrowing escapes, The Infiltrator is as exciting and explosive as the greatest fiction thrillers - only it's all true.

Africa and the War on Drugs

Author : Neil Carrier
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848139671
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the War on Drugs written by Neil Carrier and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets and the Bissau-Guinean state captured by narco-traffickers. These are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed policymakers, academics and the general public in recent years. In this revealing and original book, the authors weave these aspects into a provocative argument about Africa's role in the global trade and control of drugs. In doing so, they show how foreign-inspired policies have failed to help African drug users who require medical support, while strengthening the role of corrupt and brutal law enforcement officers who are tasked with halting the export of heroin and cocaine to European and American consumer markets. A vital book on an overlooked front of the so-called "war on drugs."

The Last Pirate

Author : Tony Dokoupil
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307739481
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Last Pirate written by Tony Dokoupil and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 274 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.

Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror

Author : Ivelaw L. Griffith
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766371423
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror written by Ivelaw L. Griffith and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The security issues which have come into prominence since the September 11 terrorist attack in the USA provide both the starting point and the focus for this comprehensive survey of contemporary security issues in the Caribbean. This volume assesses the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Caribbean states and examines the institutional and operational terrorism response capacity of security agencies in the region. However, understanding security challenge and change in the Caribbean context requires a broad-based multidimensional approach; terrorism for the small, open and vulnerable nation states of the Caribbean region is a real security issue but even more so, is a range of untraditional threats like crime, drug trafficking, territorial disputes, environmental degradation and the rapid spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. How these states adapt policies and practices to adjust to the new regional and global circumstances represent the challenge and the change.

Desperadoes

Author : Elaine Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780792483960
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Desperadoes written by Elaine Shannon and published by . This book was released on with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Kingpin

Author : Nick Bilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698405730
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book American Kingpin written by Nick Bilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers—could buy and sell contraband detection-free. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. Through his network he got wind of the target on his back and took drastic steps to protect himself—including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren’t sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet. Drawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, Vanity Fair correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton offers a tale filled with twists and turns, lucky breaks and unbelievable close calls. It’s a story of the boy next door’s ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralized Web advocates and the old world of government control, order, and the rule of law. Filled with unforgettable characters and capped by an astonishing climax, American Kingpin might be dismissed as too outrageous for fiction. But it’s all too real.

The King of Sting

Author : Craig Glazer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602392498
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The King of Sting written by Craig Glazer and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Glazer was robbed while buying marijuana for his fraternity brothers, he decided to get even. He and partner Donald Woodbeck set up a series of fake stings across the country that netted them a fortune. It was a dangerous double life, one that does not lead to a happy ending.

Planning the Past

Author : Anita M. Waters
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739158902
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Planning the Past written by Anita M. Waters and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history of pirates, naval admirals, and earthquakes. The plans for Port Royal's heritage tourism development represent a chronological record of historical revisionism, and the fact that none of the plans has been realized reflects post-colonial social processes and national ambivalence about piratical and naval history.