Deck 5: Colombia and Mexico

Question 1

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

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

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 5

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

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

Question 6

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.

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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

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

Question 12

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

A)​NAFTA
B)​FTAA
C)​WTO
D)IMF

Question 13

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

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

Question 14

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

A)​PRI
B)​ASC
C)​PTK
D)MST

Question 15

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 16

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 17

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 18

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 19

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

Question 20

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

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

Question 21

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 22

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

Question 23

What are narcocorridos?​

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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 26

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

Question 27

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 28

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 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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 33

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 34

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

Question 35

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 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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 42

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

Question 43

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 44

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

Question 45

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 46

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 47

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

Question 48

Describe the evolution of the Colombian drug business.​

Question 49

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