They quickly became one of the most powerful gangs in Chicago, next to the Johnny Torrio and Al Capone’s gang, the Chicago Outfit. Torrio
Bethany Wiggins’s young adult fantasy Stung, based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, takes place in a dystopian world, a future Earth, created by an overreach of science. Fiona fell asleep as a thirteen-year-old, but when she wakes, she is in the body of a seventeen-year-old. When she fell asleep, her world was under threat, but she lacked the understanding necessary to save it. However, when she wakes, the worst has happened—all the bees have died, which has led to a worldwide pandemic. Colorado, where Fiona lives, has been demolished; people are living in chaos.
"The Zetas have obviously assumed the role of being the number 1 organization responsible for most the homicides, the narcotic-related homicides, the beheadings, the kidnappings, the extortions that take place in Mexico," said US Drug Enforcement Agency’s chief for Mexico and Central America Ralph Reyes after the cartel murdered a police chief, his wife and four children in Veracruz, Mexico. Los Zetas were originally based on military lines, but the group has now been built into a business structure, with quarterly meetings, business ledgers, even votes on key assassinations, the DEA said. Los Zetas also post videos on the internet showing the killing of people. In one clip, posted in 2013, a group of masked men behead four women who allegedly were tied to a rival gang: The Gulf Cartel. The DEA is trying to stop the large drug distribution through foreign affairs but do not seem to be that big of a success Richard, F. (2013, March 1).
Most of them are illigal immigrants. Many of them are even teenagers. There is estimated that there are 8 000 to 10 000 members in the United States, and 30 000 to 50 000 members working for the gang worldwide. Ernesto Miranda was one of the
This gang formed in retaliation of the oppression by the Mexican Mafia. All members must Hispanic. The La Nuestra Familia is known for the drug dealing and sex trade in prisons. On the outside, they are contract killers and have various smuggling operations. The process to become part of the gang is extensive and takes about two years to show your loyalty.
Their motto explained better blood in and blood out means the only way out is death. With the majority of the AB being a white gang in the 1970’s era said truce to another known gang called the Mexican mafia. Calling true to the Mexican Mafia only meant profit for the AB not for the moral clarity. The AB is extremely deadly organization. Authorities calculated members of the group made up 1% of the prison population they were responsible for 18% of all prison murders a few years back.
It was until 2006 when the mapping changed. The government located six organizations: Sinaloa, Juárez, Tijuana, Golfo, La Familia Michoacana and the Millennium cartel. In 2008, two new cartels of a fragmentation emerged. On one side of the Sinaloa cartel, the Beltrán Leyva brothers split up and create their own organization.
Experts suggest that Hezbollah has the network and “necessary structures to conduct terrorist strikes in case it serves its interests”(47) With this comes the remarkable fact that the media tends to indicate that individuals affiliated to Hezbollah generate large amount of money from illicit activities and that Hezbollah profits from it.(48) What is frequently downplayed is the fact that the money channelled to Hezbollah is from individual donations, which seem to be a result of “personal sympathies rather than systematic cooperation. ”(49) The fact that Hezbollah only benefits from these criminal enterprises to the extent to which individual sympathizer donate suggest that Hezbollah may not actually be masterminding any criminal activity in
The resulting organizations were called cartels, misleadingly, as they were in fact fragment of an exploded cartel. The byproducts of decartelization and most were operated by descendants or associates of the Guadalajara trio. As the 1990s unfolded, all these Mexican traffickers grew as proved impossible to revive the old relationship between the subservient crook and dominant
This gang originated in El Salvador. It then moved to Honduras, on to Guatemala, and then it reached the United States. It drastically became a huge issue in our country, and all over. They quickly recruited people to join this extremely violent group. This gang can now be found in about 33 states.
The PlO is a terrorist group located all over the middle east and their goal is to achieve the national goals of the Palestine people, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capitol. Hezbollah is a terrorist group located in Lebanon their main goal is the establishment of an Islamic government across the Arab world that will liberate Jerusalem and the entire area of the present day state of Israel. There are many differences between these two terrorist groups, but there are many similarities. Some of the differences between the PLO and Hezbollah are that they both have two completely different goals, PLO wants to create a Palestinian state all with Jerusalem as its capitol, and Hezbollah wants to establish an Islamic government across the Arab world that will liberate Jerusalem and Israel. The PLO and Hezbollah are similar because of how they are funded.
One organized criminal enterprise that is still relevant today is Hells Angels; while it began back in 1948, it continues to have a heavy presence today as the group is constantly working to change their image in which the public and law enforcement view them as dangerous. These outlaw gangs earn up to $1 billion a year worldwide from drug dealing, prostitution, gunrunning, theft, extortion, and murder; this specific organization would have gained much money from trafficking meth and cocaine in the beginning, but have now witched to other items including firearms (Serwer, 2012). They were known to make and distribute “crank” (hide meth under crankshaft) before Mexican cartels doing ephedrine importation and illicit meth lab production; cooked
Ask the average American to name a gang they are familiar with and chances are the response will be either the Crips or the Bloods. Over four decades ago, African American youth founded these gangs after many years of oppression, marginalization, and institutional racism. The Crips and the Bloods, who originated from neighborhoods of Southern California, have now spread across the nation with a presence in thirty-two states. They changed the American landscape forever.
Careful consideration must be made in the analysis of such criminal organizations. The threat grows every day. Hezbollah has been operating for approximately 30 years. Originally started as an anti-Israeli group set for Islamic radicalization
According to the Training Circular 7-100, a hybrid threat is the diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and/or criminal elements all unified to achieve mutually benefitting effects. (Hybrid Threat 2010) Stated simply, hybrid threats are different groups of people coming together with their ultimate goal being to disrupt or discredit US forces and agendas. Because we have been fighting the same fight for so long, we tend to see this as a new threat when in fact it is not. We can look all throughout history to see examples of this.
