Drug Trafficking And Prostitution In Columbia
| Although many people do not know this but Columbia has been dealing with terrorism long before al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden came into the scene. |
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While the terror meted out by Islamic terrorists is based on religion and globalization, drug trafficking has been instrumental in fueling terrorism in Columbia.
In the 1980s, the term narco-terrorism was used to describe the actions of the Medellin cartel, a powerful drug trafficking group in Columbia. The cartel was not afraid of having violent confrontations with the government and did not hesitate to use violence to do away with the enemies of the cartel. The cartel is known to have killed many government officials, police officers, journalists, Supreme Court judges, and a leading presidential candidate.
According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Columbia’s drug trafficking groups earn anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion each year. The godfathers of Columbian cartels have managed to make to the annual list of the world’s richest individuals published by Fortune magazine.
Drug traffickers have used money to infiltrate into Columbia’s political system and it also has managed to have a corrupting influence on the society. It has been seen that drug trafficking and prostitution in Columbia seem to go hand in hand. Today in Columbia Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) controls most of the drug trade by protecting drug crops, labs, airfields and peasants who grow the crops.
Columbia’s drug traffickers also control the prostitution network. There are two types of prostitution networks in the country: one that caters to the domestic and regional market and the other provides women to international prostitution markets in countries like Spain, Britain, Germany, Belgium and the United States.
The reasons why women enter prostitution in Columbia are because of physical mistreatment in the family, sexual abuse by parents or step-parents, rejection, abandonment, unemployment or lack of skill to earn a living. It has also been seen that female drug addicts resort to prostitution to make money for their drug habits.
Columbia is famous for its drug trafficking and it is a known sex tourism destination of the world.
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