Exam 6: Latin American Organized Crime

rison-based gangs have been gaining prominence as organized criminal groups, most notably the ____________.

ontrol of most of the world's cocaine industry is in __________ organizations.

The Cali cartel refers to a loose alliance of five major trafficking groups with preeminence shared by the kinship/crime families of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela ("the Chess Player"), his brother Miguel, and José Santacruz Londono ("Don Chepe").

hich of the following statements is false?

As the market for cocaine in the US increased dramatically, Escobar invested much of his profits in bull fighting.

Tijuana is the home of some of Colombia's most notorious drug traffickers.

The term ____________ identifies a criminal network whose structure resembles that of a holding company.

When the PRI government was defeated in Mexico, an unparalleled level of violence erupted as drug lords struggled for supremacy.

n the 1990s, Colombian coca accounted for _____ of the cocaine entering the US

Control of most of the world's cocaine industry remains in the hands of the Mexican organizations.

hat kind of image did Pablo Escobar cultivate in Envigado, a barrio outside Medellin?

Discuss what we know about the Herrera crime Family.

he defeat of the PRI in Mexico ruptured a longtime implicit arrangement between narcotrafficantes and the PRI-controlled government. What was the consequence?

What is the Mexican Mafia?

With the assistance of foreign advisors, many of whom also advised the former Soviet Union in the same process, Mexico embarked on an ambitious program of _________ in the 1990s.