The rise of drug trafficking throughout the world, has mo-tivado a great concern of all governments, especially the U.S., which has been reflected in policy instruments designed to effectively fight against the scourge. It is alien to that drug trafficking is closely linked to organized crime, terrorism, and pose a threat to democratic nations of the developing world due to corruption and crime resulting from such activities can overwhelm the recent institutions and legal systems. Among the plans to combat drug trafficking, the U.S. has developed its federal strategy for preventing drug abuse and trafficking.
The programs aim to virtually paths:
1 – Prevention includes educating youth about the dangers of narcotics.
2 – detoxification and treatment for drug addicts.
3 – Research aimed at understanding the causes and consequences of drug addiction.
4 – Enforcement of laws relating to drugs to destroy drug networks and intercept the drug before it reaches consumers.
5 – International cooperation to control the production and shipment of narcotics.
In the United States, drug traffickers smuggle narcotics to this country in large quantities. They come from around the world, but especially from Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Belize, Jamaica, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Thailand and Burma. Once crops are produced in these countries are often sent elsewhere for processing, and these in turn refined narcotics are sent back to local suppliers in Central Europe, the United States and throughout the industrialized world.
The money derived from narcotics funds becomes legally possessed by certain maneuvers to enter the international financial markets. Financial maneuvers are conducted through intermediaries for procurement of drug smuggling without their being detected by Customs officials and the Coast Guard. This operation was well organized and increasingly effective means truly an international effort to combat them.
It is beyond our understanding, which conducted research on the finances of traffickers and seizures of their property and profits received added emphasis. Undoubtedly, the changes implemented by countries in terms of increased criminalization of drug trafficking have contributed to try to counter the economic potential of the traffickers. The largest aviation laws increased prison sentences for drug smuggling by air and in that sense it has increased security measures to prevent the aircraft from being used to transport illegal narcotics.
With regard to the laundering of proceeds of drug trafficking, there are countless cases through which the traffickers, using intermediaries, proceed to the investment of these funds in bank accounts, using real or fictitious names, as also for the purchase of property, and / or stock exchange quotation, resulting in that sense the legality of the money invested. Note that in the United States Bank Secrecy Act is the main instrument used by the agencies responsible for implementing the Act in order to detect the “Money Laundering”, a term applied to the process of disguising the source of money to make it appear as illegitimate income. Because of the provisions of the Act, banks must give account of all monetary transactions greater than $ S 10.000, as well as to report when entering or S $ 5,000 to the United States or the country when they retire.
The situation in Latin America, is no exception to the above, and indicates that Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, are virtually the only worldwide producer of coca leaves. Cocaine production for mass consumption, and transport to consumer markets, is a highly complex process from its conception and execution that go beyond the frontiers of both countries and totally beyond their control.
The main centers of cultivation of cocaine base are: Santa Cruz, Montero, Trinidad and Guayaramerin Puerto Suarez (Bolivia); Tino Mary Huaanacu, Ayacucho, and Tarapoto (Peru). The main laboratories processing cocaine base found in Leticia, Medellin and Cali (Colombia) and Manao, Corumba and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). These constitute the main points of exit from cocaine hydrochloride to the international market, especially via Miami and New York in the United States.
The methods used for transport are: small private aircraft, scheduled airlines, by sea or river and outsiders lar contracted organizations to move drugs into their bodies or personal items (letters, mules, etc.).
The issue of drug addiction and drug trafficking in our country has gained real importance and alarming, with an enormous increase in consumption among young people especially. The defect has developed in the capital and urban areas, among those with socio-Psychotrauma family, children of discordant couples, separated or busy in his business or social activities. It also takes into account the determinants, such as failures in school, in their personal relationships, etc.. It is very common among people of the night, artists, some “elite” and criminals.
The Republic of Argentina, is in the situation of having the role played by its neighbors, as centers of origin of the two species most widely distributed addictive in the territory of the Nation, coca leaves and cocaine hydrochloride in the Republic of Bolivia Cannabis Sativa and Paraguay.
Clearly, one can not but take into account the influence of this scourge on the international situation in the customs and lifestyles of Argentina. It is necessary to urge our neighbors to join in the struggle, intensifying efforts to remove space for action to this global problem .-
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