Mexicans Take Over Drug Trade to US. Danna Harman.
by Harman, Danna; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 79Health. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Cartels | Drug traffic | Drug traffic -- Mexico | Methamphetamine | Narcotics -- Control of | Narcotics -- Control of -- Mexico -- MexicoDDC classification: 050 Summary: "With Colombian cartels in shambles, Mexican drug lords run the show." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses how "the new dominance of Mexican cartels...in what the UN estimates is a $142 billion a year business in cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, and illicit drugs on US streets" has resulted in "a spike in violence, especially along the 2,000-mile US-Mexico border where rival cartels are warring not only against Mexican and US authorities, but also against one another for control of the lucrative transit corridors."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Mexicans Take Over Drug Trade to US, Aug. 16, 2005; pp. n.p..
"With Colombian cartels in shambles, Mexican drug lords run the show." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses how "the new dominance of Mexican cartels...in what the UN estimates is a $142 billion a year business in cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, and illicit drugs on US streets" has resulted in "a spike in violence, especially along the 2,000-mile US-Mexico border where rival cartels are warring not only against Mexican and US authorities, but also against one another for control of the lucrative transit corridors."
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