Deck 5: Colombia and Mexico

Question 1

Which of the following has historically been a dominant political party in Mexico? ​

A)PRI
B)ASC
C)PTK
D)MST

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Until the 1970s, the importation of marijuana and cocaine into the United States was largely a(n)_____________ operation, although the suppliers were Colombian. ​

A)Italian
B)Turkish
C)Cuban
D)Albanian

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In contrast to the Medellín cartel, the Cali cartel has preferred to avoid: ​

A)becoming involved in national politics.
B)using violence.
C)becoming involved with sex trafficking.
D)selling heroin to those in European countries.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A common element found with organized crime located in both Colombia and Mexico is their extensive involvement in which crime? ​

A)counterfeit goods manufacture and sale
B)drug trafficking
C)illegal alcohol manufacture and sale
D)identity theft

Question 5

In remote jungle areas of where coca is cultivated in Colombia, which Marxist guerilla forces protect the crops and levy taxes on the drug business? ​

A)BA
B)OCHOA
C)PRI
D)FARC

Question 6

The cocaine legacy in Colombia has been allowed to continue due in large part to both the delegitimization of government and: ​

A)Mexican cartel support.
B)civil wars.
C)increased support of communism.
D)Italian mafia involvement.

Question 7

Who does the Tijuana cartel employ to commit murders on the U.S. side of the border? ​

A)Arizona street gang members
B)California street gang members
C)New Mexico street gang members
D)Florida street gang members

Question 8

Cali cartel operations in the United States were one time headquartered in: ​

A)Miami, FL.
B)Queens, NY.
C)San Francisco, CA.
D)New Orleans, LA.

Question 9

What type of organizational structures do Colombian criminal organizations have? ​

A)subcultural traditional
B)Sicilian Mafia-style
C)bureaucratic
D)open

Question 10

In the early 1990s, Mexican criminal organizations struck a deal with which country's criminal organizations, whose cocaine they were moving from Mexico into the United States on a contract basis? ​

A)Haiti
B)Colombia
C)Russia
D)Albania

Question 11

Which of the following assisted the drug arrangement between Mexico and Colombia? ​

A)NAFTA
B)FTAA
C)WTO
D)IMF

Question 12

In Colombia, Jorge Ochoa was convicted of illegally importing: ​

A)guns.
B)women.
C)immigrants.
D)bulls.

Question 13

The most notorious of the Colombian drug cartels are those of Medellín and: ​

A)Estacas.
B)Tijuana.
C)Cali.
D)Sinaloa.

Question 14

Control of most of the world's cocaine industry is in which organizations? ​

A)Mexican
B)Russian
C)Italian
D)Colombian

Question 15

The Hell's Angels have been attributed as the primary group that helped spawn the Mexican cartels' involvement with: ​

A)methamphetamine.
B)crack cocaine.
C)PCP.
D)heroin.

Question 16

How many times higher is the homicide rate in Colombia than that of the United States? ​

A)four
B)six
C)eight
D)ten

Question 17

What term is used to identify a criminal network of flexible groups with senior managers responsible for coordinating illegal operations? ​

A)Sinaloa
B)La Violencia
C)cartel
D)narcocorridos

Question 18

The defeat of the PRI in Mexico ruptured a longtime implicit arrangement between narcotrafficantes and the PRI-controlled government. What was the consequence? ​

A)There was a reduction of violence.
B)There was an upsurge in violence.
C)There was no change in the level of violence.
D)The cartels formed a new political party.

Question 19

What kind of image did Pablo Escobar, the most notorious member of the Ochoa crime cartel, cultivate for the people in Envigado, a barrio outside Medellín? ​

A)a Robin Hood image
B)an Al Capone image
C)a John Gotti image
D)a Pope-like image

Question 20

The acronym for "People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar" is: ​

A)Los PPPE.
B)Los P2PE.
C)Los PEPES.
D)Los P3E.

Question 21

Narcolullabis are songs that glamorize drug trafficking through Mexican history. ​

Question 22

With the weakening of the major Colombian cartels, Mexicans have formed direct links to coca leaf farmers and processing laboratories in two countries, _____________ and _____________. ​

Question 23

Mexican organized crime is best understood against a backdrop of all of the following characteristics, except : ​

A)patron-client relationships.
B)political patronage.
C)endemic corruption.
D)philanthropic activities to avoid detection.

Question 24

Which of the following emerged as a leader of the Gulf cartel, controlling drug trafficking throughout northeastern Mexico and along the Gulf of Mexico? ​

A)Juan Garcia Abrego
B)Carlos Lehder-Rivas
C)Fabio Ochoa
D)Pablo Escobar

Question 25

Beginning in 1929, the political party in Mexico known as _____________ has dominated Mexican politics using authoritarian methods to ensure one-party rule. ​

Question 26

Colombian cocaine networks are informally structured and operate in a fluid, transactional manner. ​

Question 27

The demise of the cartels in Medellín and Cali have resulted in fragmentation of the cocaine supply chain. ​

Question 28

Tijuana is the home of some of Colombia's most notorious drug traffickers. ​

Question 29

The term _____________ identifies a criminal network whose structure resembles that of a holding company. ​

Question 30

Mexican drug trafficking groups are bureaucratically organized, but built around familial relationships. ​

Question 31

The major Colombian cartels have declined, and a variety of smaller organizations, called _____________, are taking their place. ​

Question 32

Control of most of the world's cocaine industry remains in the hands of the Mexican organizations. ​

Question 33

The Cali cartel refers to a loose alliance of five major trafficking groups with preeminence shared by the kinship/crime families of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela ("the Chess Player"), his brother Miguel, and José Santacruz Londono ("Don Chepe"). ​

Question 34

Colombia has had three civil wars; the last in 1948-1958 was known as ____________. ​

Question 35

The absence of a strong sense of territoriality means the Mexican drug cartels are best described as what kind of syndicates? ​

A)universal
B)capitalist
C)free-market
D)enterprise

Question 36

When the FARC government was unseated in Mexico in 2000, an unparalleled level of violence erupted as drug lords struggled for supremacy since they no longer were going to be afforded protection from corrupt government officials . ​

Question 37

As opposed to those in the United States, Mexican crime bosses have often been fugitives under no incentive to keep low profiles by avoiding violence. ​

Question 38

In the absence of powerful drug lords, the Colombian drug trade has become more decentralized. ​

Question 39

What are narcocorridos ? ​

A)low level drug mules
B)ballads that glorify drug trafficking
C)drug trafficking routes
D)cigars laced with methamphetamine

Question 40

Mexican drug organizations have diversified their criminal enterprises into the realm of ransom kidnapping and: ​

A)identity theft.
B)international bank fraud.
C)extortion.
D)sex trafficking.

Question 41

Operating out the southern Pacific state of Michoacana is the ______________, the most fearsome of all of Mexico's drug organizations. ​

Question 42

With a population of more than one million, the city of ____________ is racked by poverty and lacks a sewage treatment facility, but is home to one of Mexico's richest drug organizations and is now considered the most dangerous city in the world. ​

Question 43

The most prominent leader of the Sinaloa cartel-who has escaped Mexican prisons numerous time to avoid extradition back to the United States-is ______________, often referred to as "El Chapo" or "Shorty." ​

Question 44

Describe the evolution of the Colombian drug business. ​

Question 45

Explain how and why Mexican cartels became involved with methamphetamine. ​

Question 46

In the early 1990s, Mexican criminal organizations struck a deal with the _____________, whose cocaine they moved from Mexico into the United States on a contract basis. ​

Question 47

The Gulf cartel at one time recruited Mexican military special forces veterans known as ___________ as an enforcement arm of their operation, until they broke formal ties and began operating their own organization. ​

Question 48

Who was Pablo Escobar and what role did he play in advancing organized crime in Colombia? ​

Question 49

Discuss the role of militias in Colombia in relation to drug trafficking and traffickers. ​