Chapter 2 Flashcards
It is the Asia’s principal area of illicit opium production
The Golden Crescent
The three nations whose mountainous perpheries define the golden crescent
Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan
It is considered a global hub for heroin and related opiate production and trafficking
The Golden Crescent
Three routes that operate from region of Golden Crescent
The Balkan Route
The Northern Route
Southern Route
This route that operates through Iran and Turkey and traffics the bulk of Afghan heroin to Europe
The Balkan Route
This route suppliee heroin to Russian Federation and Central Asia
The Northern Route
This route traffics heroin to Iran and Pakistan via sea and air and other parts of the world
Southern Route
It is a Muslim Order issued by Taliban Leader for banning poppy cultivation
Fatwa
Who is the current tribal leader for banning poppy cultivation for Muslim in Afghanistan?
Mullah Omar
The year of enactment of muslim order issued by tribal leader in Afghanistan
July 28, 2000
The patterns that describes or resulted in mass production for heroin users in Afghanistan in study year 2010
War Pattern
Refugees Pattern
Social and Economic Crisis Pattern
The pattern which entails long term drug use for over 30 years by ex-Afghanistan soldiers
War Pattern
This pattern includes people who began to use drugs while they were refugees in Pakistan and Iran
Refugees Pattern
This pattern includes people who began to use drugs as a means of escape from their harsh realities
Social and Economic Crisis Pattern
The production of Opiate in Pakistan resulted in what war that led to flourishing of poppy fields at the durand line that seperates Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Anti-Soviet Afghan War
Which act that came about by the year 2000 was declared a poppy free country meaning it had less than 1000 hectares under cultivation
The Control of the Narcotic Substances Act
It has one of the highest opiate dependency rates in the world
Iran
What country which located in Central Asia that provides opium at much cheaper rates to the world market
Afghanistan
What is the common illicit drugs used in Iran?
Opium
This area is centered on the meeting point of the boarders separate Laos, Burma and Thailand
The Golden Triangle
It is considered as the world’s largest producet of opium and heroin
The Golden Triangle
A single country which produce highest opium and heroin
Myanmar or Burma
The mountainous regions which play major role in the global opium economy
Thailand
Burma or Myanmar
Laos
A political party which had expelled from China by the Communist Party
Kuomintang
He wad described by historian Alfred Mccoy as the “Only Shan warlord who ran a truly professional smuggling organization capable of transporting large quantities of opium
Khun Sa
He is the king of Golden Triangle
Khun Sa
It is historically known to be a major cocaine production area in the Andean Region
The Silver Triangle
Three countries in South America that make up “The Silver Triangle.”
Peru
Bolivia
Columbia
It is place where the known drug cartels came from such as Medellin and Cali Cartel
Columbia
It is the single largest producer and exporter of cocaine in the world.
Peru
It is the heart of South America’s illegal narcotics trade
Bolivia
The major abused substances in China
Heroin
What are the drugs which called as the “new emerging synthetic drugs”
Methamphetamine
MDMA
Ketamine
It houses also world powerful drug cartels/syndicates like the Sinaloa and Los Zetas.
Mexico
A country which has a major transshipment point of Cannabis Sativa or Marijuana to the United States and to other European countries
Mexico
It has become the no. 1 producer of Cannabis in the World.
Mexico
It continues to be a major transshipment point to all parts of the world for the form of heroin
Hong Kong
A white powder, which preffered type of drugs substances in U.S and Europe.
Heroin which known as No. 4
What drug substance increasingly being trafficked through Hong Kong to Japan and the Philippines
Methamphetamine
It has traditionally been a transit point for heroin mostly destined for North America and Europe, with the relaxation on restrictions of travel to the mainland for Taiwanese males.
Taiwan
The biggest drug seizure ever made in Western Europe
Columbia and Ecuador
What are the countries which smuggled cocaine in Spain?
French, Britain, Germany and Netherlands
It is referred as the “Paradise of Drug Users in Europe”
Spain
It is based from the largest city in Columbia syndicate?.
Cali Cartel
Who headed the Cali Cartel?
Don Chepe (Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuella)
Who are the brothers founded the Cali Cartel?
Miguel Rodriguez
Jose Santacruz Londono and Helmer “Pacho” Herrera
It is the most powerful criminal organization in the world
Cali Cartel
They are professionals of the highest order, intelligent, efficient, imaginative and nearly impenetrable
Cali Cartel
The one who controlled the Powerful International Drug Cartel in 1880’s
Medellin Cartel
The medellin cartel was founded and ran by whom?
Pablo Escobar
Is a formal agreement between a group of producers of a goodor service to control or manipulate prices
Cartel
It is a criminal organization that controos the supply of illegal drugs and keeps prices high
Drug Cartel
What year does Pablo Escobar died?
1993
A group of criminal organization which began to smuggle small quantities of cocaine in America
Medellin Cartel
Drug boss of Medellin Cartel
Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha
The slang name of Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha
The Fat Girl
He wad the Chief of the Medellin Cartel and was responsible for the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 which killed 107 civilians and was responsible for the deaths of unknown number of people
Dandy Muñoz Mosquera a.k.a La Quica
It rose to prominence during the second half of the 1990’s after the Cali and Mendellin cartel fragmented
Norte De Valle Cartel (North Valley Cartel)
Who are the leading drug lords of North Del Valle Cartel?
Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez
“Don Diego”
Wilber Valera “Jabon” Soap
Hernando Gomez Bustamante “Rasguno” (scratch)
Who are the the founder of Beltran Leyva
Arturo
Carlos
Alfredo
Hector
This subgroups rely on alliances with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Juarez Cartel and Los Zetas
Beltran Leyva
This group originally came from Los Zetas
Gulf Cartel
They are the most violent in the history of organized crime in Mexico
Gulf Cartel
This group is focusing more in their main product including methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana
Gulf Cartel
The founder of Gulf Cartel?
Juan Nepomuceno Guerrera
He controlled the group Gulf Cartel when his uncle died in respiratory disease in the age of 85 years old
Juan Garcia Abrego
This group participated in human trafficking, extortion and theft
Gulf Cartel
This organized criminsl group considered as one the most powerful and fastest growing in Mexico and the United States
Jalisco New Generation
It is one of the most dangerous cartels in the countr, especially after it shot down a military helicopter in May 2015
Jalisco New Generation
They believe to be the group’s leader of Jalisco New Generation
Rubén Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho)
The main product of Jalisco New Generation
Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine and Cocaine
They are formerly allied with Sinaloa Cartel and then began fighting it for control of Ciudad Juarez and the State of Chihuahua
Juarez Cartel
They are leading organization with borders of Mexico and US particularly in Texas
Juarez Cartel
He is the key figure of organization and master mind of syndicate with the ability of connecting with other cartels
Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno a.k.a Ez Azul
The succeeded of Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno (Ez Azul)
Ricardo Garcia Urquiza
The former boss of Juarez Cartel
Amado Carillo Fuentes
He took over as the boss of the Juárez Cartel.
Vicente Carillo Fuentes
The main product of Juarez Cartel
Cocaine
This organize criminal group is responsible for smuggling illicit drugs in US which headed by Carlos Rosales Mendoza
La Familia Michoacana
The main product of La Familia Michoacana
Rainbow methamphetamine
This organize criminal group compromised of former elite members of the Mexican military led only in 2003
Los Zetas Cartel
The group has a reputation for being particularly savage and is known massacres, killing civiliand, leaving body parts in public places and posting killings on internet
Los Zetas Cartel
This group’s main asset is not drug, but organized violence, including theft, extortion, humab smuggling and kidnapping according to the Congressional Research Report
Los Zetas Cartel
Founder of Los Zetas Cartel
Osiel Cardenas Gullen
It is considered as the dominant drug trafficking organization in the Mexico which led and founded by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
Sinaloa Cartel
When Sinaloa Cartel established?
1980s
The main product of Sinaloa Cartel
Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine and Shabu
According to the USA DEA report this cartel may niw operating “with a mire horizontal leadership structure than previously thought”.
Sinaloa Cartel
It is considered as the most influential drug trafficking organization in the world
Sinaloa Cartel
It is also known as Arellano Felix Organization
Tinuana) Arellano Felix Cartel
This organization criminal group was led by the family of Ramon Eduardo Arellano Felix but it was founded by Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo who eas incarcerated in 1989
Tinuana/Arellano Felix Cartel (Arrellano Felix Organization)
The most abuse drugs in the Philippines
Shabu (92.17%)
The second most abused drug in the Philippines
Marijuana/ Cannabis Sativa (28.25%)
The third most abused drugs in the Philippines
Cocaine (1% - 0.61%)
They have been identified to be primarily responsible for the recruitment of Filipino drugs couriers who smuggle drugs ti and from other Asian Countries
African Drug Syndicates
They are further responsible for the establishment of cladestine laboratories and illegal chemical warehouses nationwide
The Chinese/Filipino Chinese Drug Syndicates
This powerful cartel was to believed to have penetrated the Philippines
The Mexican Sinaloa Cartel
It is considered as the highest drug affected rate nationwide in the Philippines with 95.37 in the year 2018 statistic
National Capital Region (NCR)
It is second drug users affected rate nationwide in the Philippines with 93.47% in the year 2018 statistic
Zamboanga Peninsula
It is third drug users affected rate nationwide in the Philippines with 88.78% in the year 2018 statistic
Central Visayas
It is fourth drug users affected rate nationwide in the Philippines with 84.01% in the year 2018 statistic
Central Luzon
It is fifth drug users affected rate nationwide in the Philippines with 82.38% in the year 2018 statistic
Caraga
The lowest drug users affected in Philippines in the year 2022
Mimaropa
Considered as the major hub shabu production in the Philippines
National Capital Region (NCR)
Is the concentration of Marijuana in the Philippines
Nothern Luzon
The border provinces that includes in Green Triangle
Benguet
Mountain Province
Kalinga
La Union
Ilocos Sur
