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How does America's demand for drugs fuel violence in Latin American countries? Why were criminal organizations able to gain power in their countries?

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Why do you think it was so easy for the Guatemalan government to exploit and subdue the native population? Think about who holds power, laws passed, propaganda.

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In the countries that make up the Northern Triangle, what are some of the common reasons that put the countries in turmoil? Why do their residents immigrate toward the US?

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Carlo Castillo was in power and he had reversed any reforms that were put in place before him making it so that the government and companies were able to pull things like this and just take land from the natives.

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Decades of civil wars and foreign intervention. The citizens immigrated because of the deteriorated economy and corruption, crime and gang violence.

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America is the world's largest consumer of cocaine so for it to get distributed it goes through central America. Criminal organizations could gain power in these countries because their governments were weak and easily bought off.

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The government avoided being honest with the people in Guatemala and made changes without the people knowing. Many native people do not read Spanish language and most were busy working to feed their families. Augie

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People living in the Northern triangle are desperate for work and feeding their families. They immigrate to the U.S. looking for opportunity and to live in a free society where they leave their corrupt governments. Those countries are led by corrupt people who take money and allow U.S. companies to take the resources and this leaves its people poor with nothing. Augie

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We could blame Central America for sending the drugs through Mexico to the U.S. but really the blame is more on the Americans because they give the demand. If Americans were not buying drugs, then drugs would not be coming over here.-Augie

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Corrupt government are just countries that take money from the U.S and there essentials. The people who immigrated wanted a new life were they can be free. So they decided to immigrate to the U.S - Genevieve

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I think America has most of the blame for drugs being imported. They do have a big part of power for example they are the ones who gave the orders to send drugs. Also over all AMerica is the biggest consumer of cocaine. - Genevieve

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I think it was a bit in fair how some Natives didn't know how to read or were to busy to be informed of what was going on. So Guatemala took advantage of this to just go ahead and make changes and also Carlo Castillo was mainly in power for government of Guatemala. - Genevieve

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Carlo Castillo was put in power by the government so he could reverse the acts that gave land back to natives. Guatemala took advantage of it's people and raided their homes forcing them to leave to take their land the crops they've worked hard to harvest. They secretly enforces rules and made many unknown of what was happening which made it easier for them to take over. -Erin

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With all the death, people wanted a way out and a place where some safety felt possible. A place where they could start over for them and their family. When the Cold War ended that didn't stop the people from fleeing to the U.S but there was a decline in numbers. -Erin

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With America's involvement in making it harder to distribute the drugs directly to the U.S. they've relocated the trafficking spots. Now Latin America countries (mostly Guatemala, and Honduras) are the main spot for violence and crime due to the support of the two cartel rivals. With the drug industry growing, cartels were made and made known in Mexico where cocaine and other drugs were mainly being trafficked. The two gangs spread and claimed more land along Mexico making them more powerful and more people submissive in their involvement. -Erin