Deck 6: Latin American Organized Crime

Question 1

hich of the following statements is false?

A) Colombian drug organizations involve cells of ten or more members.
B) Colombian cells specialize in a particular facet of the drug business.
C) Members of Colombian cells typically know members of other cells.
D) The head of each Columbian cell reports directly to a regional director.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

ho does the Tijuana Cartel employ to commit murders on the U.S. ide of the border?

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

A

Question 4

hich of the following assisted the drug arrangement between Mexico and Colombia?

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

Question 5

n Colombia, Jorge Ochoa was convicted of illegally importing _________.

A) guns
B) drugs
C) immigrants
D) bulls

Question 6

he homicide rate in Colombia is __________ times higher than that of the U.S.

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

Question 7

n the early 1990s, Mexican criminal organizations struck a deal with __________ whose cocaine they were moving from Mexico into the US on a contract basis.

A) the Haitians
B) the Colombians
C) the Russians
D) the Albanians

Question 8

n the 1990s, Colombian coca accounted for _____ of the cocaine entering the US

A) 50 percent
B) 75 percent
C) 80 percent
D) 100 percent

Question 9

he Hell's Angels were the cause of Mexican involvement with __________.

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

Question 10

common element that characterizes Latin American criminal organizations is extensive involvement in __________________.

A) counterfeit goods manufacture and sale
B) drug trafficking
C) illegal alcohol manufacture and sale
D) all of these

Question 11

olombian criminal organizations have _____________ organizational structures.

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

Question 12

ontrol of most of the world's cocaine industry is in __________ organizations.

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

Question 13

ince WWII, trafficking in Mexican heroin was dominated by ______________.

A) the Ochoa family
B) the Escobar family
C) the Herrera family
D) the Gambino family

Question 14

hat kind of image did Pablo Escobar cultivate in Envigado, a barrio outside Medellin?

A) a Robin Hood image
B) an Al Capone image
C) a John Gotti image
D) He did not cultivate any kind of image.

Question 15

exican organized crime is understood against a backdrop of:

A) Patron-client relationships
B) Political patronage
C) Endemic corruption
D) All of these

Question 16

he acronym for "People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar" is __________.

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

Question 17

hat has permitted and encouraged the cocaine legacy in Colombia?

A) Delegitimization of government
B) La Violencia
C) Both a and b
D) None of these

Question 18

he 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

ali operations in the US were headquartered in __________.

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

Question 20

he Ochoa clan is tied to __________.

A) cockfighting
B) dog racing
C) bullfighting
D) boxing

Question 21

When the PRI government was defeated in Mexico, an unparalleled level of violence erupted as drug lords struggled for supremacy.

Question 22

Members of the Medellín cartel favored bribery over violence.

Question 23

ndividuals seeking membership in MS-13 are subject to various forms of initiation including:

A) beatings
B) tattoos
C) burnings
D) both a and b

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

As the market for cocaine in the US increased dramatically, Escobar invested much of his profits in bull fighting.

Question 27

With the assistance of foreign advisors, many of whom also advised the former Soviet Union in the same process, Mexico embarked on an ambitious program of _________ in the 1990s.

Question 28

exican drug trafficking groups are bureaucratically organized, but built around familial relationships

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

It is easy to infiltrate a Colombian drug group.

Question 32

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

Question 33

The major Colombian cartels have declined, and a multiplicity of smaller organizations, called _____________, is filling the vacuum.

Question 34

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

Question 35

rison-based gangs have been gaining prominence as organized criminal groups, most notably the ____________.

A) Colombian Mafia
B) Mexican Mafia
C) Italian Mafia
D) Armenian Mafia

Question 36

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 37

hich 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 38

hat are narcocorridos?

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

Question 39

In 1929, political stability was achieved by the emergence of a dominant political party known as the __________________.

Question 40

___________ is a Salvadoran crime group operating in the U.S.

A) MS-13
B) Los PEPES
C) the Juárez Cartel
D) La Violencia

Question 41

Explain the importance of Pablo Escobar in Colombian organized crime.

Question 42

What is the relationship between Cuban exiles, Colombians, and cocaine trafficking?

Question 43

Describe the compartmentalization of Colombian drug organizations and what role it plays in pursuing organizational objectives.

Question 44

_______________ is a major transit country for cocaine moving to the US and serves drug smugglers as both a command-and-control center and transshipment point.

Question 45

Discuss what we know about the Herrera crime Family.

Question 46

The structure of Dominican drug trafficking organizations is based on __________ or regional loyalties.

Question 47

What aspects of Colombia's history likely influenced the development of drug trafficking organizations in that country?

Question 48

What is the role of the Dominican Republic in drug smuggling?

Question 49

What is the Mexican Mafia?

Question 50

ome Latin American organized crime bosses cultivated a "Robin Hood" image. How do they do this and in what way does the "Robin Hood" image help the crime organization?

Question 51

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

Question 52

MS-13 members have international connections with members maintaining constant contact with counterparts in _______________.

Question 53

ound in at least nine state prison systems and reputed to be the most powerful of the prison organized crime groups, ______________ is comprised mainly of Mexican-American convicts and ex-convicts from the barrios of East Los Angeles.

Question 54

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 55

Why is methamphetamine a profitable drug for Mexican organized crime?