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Authors Maria Micaela Sviatschi (co-authors Zach Y. Brown, Eduardo Montero, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla.
Disclaimer: SITE have the permission to upload the working paper by Maria Micaela Sviatschi. She presented this working paper on June 15, during SITE brown bag seminar.
Polestar Communication's latest research gives an interesting insight into a vital, influential group within the traditional Housewives and Kids audience called 'Connected Mums' - an audience with the power to build or destroy brands..."
This new quantitative study into the 'Mum Mafia' across England provides a departure from reductive assumptions such as 'Yummy Mummies' and 'the Mumsnet Phenomenon'.
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Here is another quick powerpoint support for my presentation for university, on the Sicilian Mafia "Cosa Nostra", on how it works, how it is linked to politics, etc...
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Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War to Succeed? by Robert Joe Stout
Article
Prepared by: Mary H. Maguire, California State University, Sacramento Kim Schnurbush, California State University,Sacramento
Psychology of Drugs and Abuse
Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War to Succeed?
Robert Joe Stout
Learning Outcomes
After reading this article, you will be able to:
• Discuss the history of the narco-war on the Mexico–United States border.
• Discuss the contributing factors and barriers to ending the “war on drugs.”
• Discuss policy reforms that affect the current state of drug trafficking.
Until 1914 laudanum and morphine were legally sold and distributed in the United States, heroin was pre- scribed as a cough medicine, and coca and cocaine were mixed with wine and cola drinks. Although most of the opium came from the Orient, Chinese settlers on Mexico’s west coast, particularly in the state of Sinaloa, began cultivat- ing adormidera (opium gum) during the 1870s and gradually developed an export trade.
Even after the use of opium-based products was declared illegal in the United States the exportations from Sinaloa con- tinued; prosecution of offenders, if it happened at all, was benign. The adormidera crossed into the United States through places like Tijuana, a dusty little frontier town until the mid- twentieth century; San Luis Rio Colorado, across the border from Yuma, Arizona; Nogales, also on the Arizona border; and Ojinaga, across the Rio Grande River from Presidio in Texas’s isolated Big Bend country. Customs agents on both sides of the border, but particularly in Mexico, cooperated with the export- ers and the flow of drugs, though not large by 1960s or ’70s standards, went through virtually unimpeded.
The majority of those involved were locals who spent the cash they acquired in the areas in which they operated. They hired
local residents for construction, transportation, ranching, and other sidelines in which they invested their earnings. As far as most of their neighbors were concerned they were good citizens whose business was no better or worse from that of any other.
Prohibition changed this genial and basically cooperative landscape. Large amounts of liquor were harder to conceal than adormidera or marijuana, making it necessary for exporters to bribe—or form partnerships—with those in charge of customs. Politicians ranging from local councilmen to state governors became involved, forcing the local exporters either to join them or evade them as well as evade law enforcement.
The end of Prohibition wounded but did not slay the golden calf of liquor exportation. The politically connected entrepre- neurs that controlled the aduanas (customs inspection stations) also controlled prostitution and a percentage of drug exporta- tions. They financed the construction and operation of luxuri- ous night clubs, gourmet restaurants, and gambling activities that attracted large numbers of ...
Quintus Dias updates everyone on the latest US-Mexico Border information involving Irineo Mujica, and the two big caravan organizing groups operating out of Chicago and Nevada. PUEBLO SIN FRONTERAS, CENTRO SIN FRONTERAS - TWO GROUPS SPONSORING CARAVANS
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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2. NEWS
Chicago Gang Sets Up Shop In Missouri Town
Disciples Franchise Their Drugs, Violence
December 17, 1995
By Maurice Possley, Tribune Staff Writer.
3. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — “When police here
arrested 18-year-old Marvin Herron on Aug.
25, 1993, and confiscated a .380-caliber
handgun, they were taken aback by the
cocksure arrogance of the Harvey, Ill.,
teenager.”
4. "Marvin told me that he was from a suburb
of Chicago and he had come to Springfield
and had been selling crack cocaine,“
"He admitted that he was a member of the
Gangster Disciples street gang, that the gun
he was carrying was to protect his money and
his investment."
5. "They see there's nothing happening, see
dollar signs, set up a prototype, and they're
up and running," Knox said. "It's sort of like a
McDonald's operation, a franchise.“
Professor George Knox, director of the
National Gang Research Center at Chicago
State University
6. Drug Markets
Overview
“The Midwest HIDTA region
contains several primary drug
market areas, including the
Kansas City, Omaha, and St.
Louis…”
8. Drug Retail Distributor Market
Meth
Hispanic street gangs, Caucasian
local independent dealers
All markets
Crack
cocaine
African American street gangs,
independent dealers
All markets
Marijuana
Hispanic street gangs, African
American street gangs, Caucasian
local independent dealers
All markets
Heroin
African American street gangs,
local independent dealers,
Caucasian local independent
dealers
Kansas City, St. Louis,
Springfield
Table 1. Drugs in the Midwest
HIDTA, by Retail Distributor and
Market, 2009
Source: Drug Enforcement Administration; Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force
9. Springfield, MO
“Springfield, with a population
of more than 150,000, is the
county seat of Greene County
and is situated along I-44, which
connects Springfield to St. Louis
and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.”
11. Springfield, MO
“Mexican DTOs and criminal
groups are the principal
transporters and wholesale
distributors of most illicit drugs
in Springfield.”
12. Springfield, MO
“Mexican traffickers transport
wholesale quantities of ice
methamphetamine, cocaine,
and marijuana from Phoenix;
Bakersfield, California; and Texas
to Springfield for distribution.”
13. Springfield, MO
“Since 2005…Gangster Disciples
members operating in this
market has increased, and law
enforcement officials report that
these criminals now distribute
Mexican black tar heroin in
addition to crack cocaine.”
14. Sureño Gangs
“…most active criminally…most prolific in
gang killings... The African-American gangs are
normally the victims of Sureño in hate-
crime…Sureños…invading Northern California
cities by the hundreds, not vice versa.”
Mexican Mafia: The Most Dangerous Gang
Surenos you encounter are taking their orders from
a higher authority.
April 12, 2010 by Richard Valdemar
15. “No matter which big bad bloody band of
barrio bad boys you might be dealing with (in
southern California),…all pay taxes to and
obey the codes of conduct dictated by the
Mexican Mafia.”
Mexican Mafia: The Most Dangerous Gang
Surenos you encounter are taking their orders from a higher
authority.
April 12, 2010 by Richard Valdemar
16. NGIC “…is an agency of the U.S. Government
Justice Department… NGIC is a multi-agency
effort that integrates the gang intelligence
assets of federal, state, and”
Info. Source: Wikipedia
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
17. ”…local law enforcement entities to serve as
a centralized intelligence resource for gang
information and analytical support.”
Info. Source: Wikipedia
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
18. NATIONAL GANG INTELLIGENCE CENTER
2011
NATIONAL GANG THREAT ASSESSMENT
EMERGING TRENDS
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
19. Page 7:
“Gangs are responsible for an average of 48%
of violent crime in most jurisdictions…up to
90% in several others…”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
20. Page 7:
“Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations
(MDTO)…resulted in gang expansion and
violence in a number of jurisdictions.”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
21. Page 8:
“Gangs are acquiring high-powered, military-
style weapons and equipment which poses a
significant threat…”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
22.
23.
24.
25.
26. Page 9:
“…data indicates…since 2009, gang
membership increased most significantly…
Arizona, California, and Illinois-boast the
highest number of gang members.”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
27. Page 30:
“Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations
(MDTO) are among the most
prominent…because… of the production of
most drugs consumed in the U.S.”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
28. Page 30:
“…street gangs are expanding their influence
over drug distribution in rural and suburban
areas and acquire drugs directly from MDTOs
in Mexico or along the Southwest border”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
29. Page48:
“THE SOUTHWEST BORDER… US-based gangs,
MDTOs and other criminal enterprises in…U.S.
and Mexico…incur enormous profit…”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
30. Page48:
“in…smuggling drugs, arms, and illegal
immigrants; and serving as enforcers for
MDTO interest on the U.S. side… ”
National Gang
Intelligence
Center
31. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
THE MIDWESTERNER
BLOGGING THE GLOBAL MIDWEST
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
32. The Mexican Connection: Drugs in the
Midwest
“One of the best descriptions of this recently
is an article in the October issue of
Bloomberg Markets Magazine that focuses on
the billionaire Mexican drug lord Joaquin
Guzman, and his success in taking over the
Chicago market for heroin, cocaine,
marijuana and meth.”
33. “The article tells how Guzman, from his
hideout in the Sierra Madre of northern
Mexico, directs the Sinaloa cartel, a multi-
billion-dollar drug empire target that supplies
80 percent of the heroin, cocaine, marijuana
and meth sold in the Chicago region – a $3
billion per year business. The result is a
monopoly that has eliminated price
competition between gangs and replaced it
with a bloody competition for turf.”
34. “If this Mexican immigration – nearly 1.5
million people in the city and suburbs – is a
huge contribution to the city’s current
prosperity, this criminal underground feeds
the violence that scars its poorer
neighborhoods.”
35. “It’s not that most of the victims are gang
members, although many undoubtedly are:
many of the victims, including children, are
innocent targets caught in the gunfire. But
most of the violence that kills them originates
in turf battles between the drug gangs.”
36.
37.
38.
39.
40. “It’s also the destruction of the housing
projects, which were high-rise poverty
warehouses controlled by gangs: many police
refused to go into them. They’re mostly
gone now, but their gangbangers have
scattered to previously peaceful black
neighborhoods: an elderly woman I know in
the middle class Chatham neighborhood says
she now feels like a prisoner in her own
home.”
41. “At the same time, police have broken up
many of the huge gangs that used to
dominate Chicago’s drug trade. There’s not
much good to say about these gangs, but they
did discipline their troops and focus the
violence. In their place now are hundreds of
mini-gangs, each heavily armed and fighting
to establish control over their own street
corner.”
42.
43. “This crackdown has worked, in a fashion. It
pretty well put local meth labs out of
business. But it opened a market for Mexican
meth, one of Guzman’s products. It also
created demand for other drugs, including
cocaine and heroin, which by all accounts are
flooding into rural Midwestern counties.”
44. ‘We Have Never
Experienced This’: Chilling
Drug Cartel-Style Threats
Hit Texas Billboards
May. 24, 2014
Jason Howerton
45. El Paso police were investigating two
mysterious messages painted onto billboards
in the border city that included mannequins
dressed in suits hanging from nooses.
46.
47. “One message read “silver or lead” in Spanish,
a threat heard in Mexico signifying pay up or
get shot.”
“This (message) has historically been used by
Mexican drug cartels to threaten or intimidate
Mexican citizens, business owners and
government officials.”
48. “The message on the other billboard read,
“dying for drugs.”
“Whoever did this went through a lot of work
to get this accomplished,” said Phil Jordan, a
former Drug Enforcement Administration
agent…”.
49. “This is possibly a message to someone who
hasn’t cooperated with the cartels…this is
going to make the El Paso population uneasy,
given that the city is not far from the killing
fields of Mexico.”
50. Border agent laments gang members entering
U.S.: ‘Why are we letting him in here?’
Saturday, June 14, 2014
51. “Border Patrol officials are swamped
by…crossing illegally into the United States
and…they can’t turn away known Mexican
gang members.
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National
Border Patrol Council Local 3307…, said…
confirmed gang members in Mexico
including…Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) are
coming…to be reunited with their families,
National Review reported Friday.