Operation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era

1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Craig
Keyword(s):  
South American ◽  
New Era ◽  
Operation Condor ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Antidrug Campaign ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Narcotic Drugs

In recent years Mexico has demonstrated the capacity to cultivate, process, ship, and transship vast quantities of illegal narcotic drugs. Such activity has traditionally been geared to the realities of domestic poverty, enormous profit, and American demand. Mexican marijuana dominated the U.S. market until quite recently. More importantly from the American viewpoint were the tons of Mexican heroin which saturated U.S. cities in the mid-1970s. Furthermore, Mexico is still the source of vast quantities of psychotropics and an increasingly popular conduit for South American cocaine.According to Craig (1978), U.S. officials long sought to convince their Mexican counterparts that the key to any effective antidrug program lay in eliminating the illicit product at the source. Until such time that herbicides were applied on a massive scale against marijuana and opium poppies, they argued, the annual Mexican campaign would prove an exercise in futility.

Commercial Aviation, A New Era: summary of the 2017 TQA workshop

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (3) ◽  
pp. 3896-3899
Author(s):  
gregg fleming
Keyword(s):  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Global Leadership ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
New Era ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Aircraft Engineering ◽  
The U.S

More environmentally friendly aircraft designs, particularly with regard to noise, was a Technology for a Quieter America (TQA) workshop hosted by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) held in May 2017. This workshop titled "Commercial Aviation: A New Era", centered on the importance of commercial aviation to the U.S. economy, and what it will take for the U.S. to maintain global leadership in the aviation sector, including a forward-looking topic on more environmentally friendly aircraft designs. A principal focus of the workshop was the necessary step-changes in aircraft engineering technology that must be addressed with the development and testing of flight demonstrators together with significantly increased funding of public-private partnerships. Government agencies which participated included NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). There was also substantial participation from the aviation industry, airports, airlines, non-government organizations and academia.

scholarly journals A New Era of Collaborative Government-Nonprofit Relations in the U.S.?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Casey
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
New Era ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
The U.S

The growth of the nonprofit sector in the last decades and its greater salience in the delivery of public goods and services has been accompanied by the development of new institutions and processes for managing the relations between nonprofits and governments. This article documents a number of recent initiatives to strengthen government-nonprofit relations in the U.S. and analyzes the policy agendas that are driving them.

Mass Murder and International Assassination

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-151
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Rabe
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Mass Murder ◽  
South American ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Henry Kissinger ◽  
American Military ◽  
Military Commanders ◽  
Operation Condor ◽  
The Military

This chapter examines the grotesque policies of the military commanders of Argentina and Chile. Argentina emulated its South American neighbors when the military seized power in March of 1976. Argentina's military rulers thought it would be in the nation's best interest to eliminate 50,000 Argentines. Secretary Henry Kissinger was made aware of the Argentine military's campaign of mass murder by U.S. officials in Washington and Buenos Aires. His aides further warned him that Argentina's murderers and torturers targeted Argentina's Jewish population. The chapter then looks at Secretary Kissinger's response to Operation Condor, a conspiracy of South American military dictatorships that perpetrated international assassinations and terrorism.

scholarly journals A new species of Dryocoetoides Hopkins from southern Florida (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2311 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. ATKINSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South American ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
South American Species ◽  
Bark And Ambrosia Beetles ◽  
Southern Florida ◽  
Recent Monograph ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The U.S

During the course of an extensive survey of Coleoptera from tropical southern Florida, a specimen of the exclusively Neotropical genus Dryocoetoides was found in flight intercept traps (Atkinson and Peck, 1994; Peck, 1989).  Over the intervening years I have had the opportunity to compare the specimen with material in the U.S. National Museum  and in the S. L. Wood collection (recently transferred to the USNM).   Wood's ( 2007) recent monograph of the South American species of Scolytinae included a key to all the known species of the genus, not only those known from South America.  Based on that key and included descriptions I was able narrow down the possibilities and to borrow selected Schedl types from the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.  As a result, I have reached the conclusion that this specimen represents an undescribed species.  It is described here to make the name available for a regional monograph of the bark and ambrosia beetles of the southeastern U.S. (Atkinson, in prep.).

La Campaña Permanente: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Craig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
South America ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Potency ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
Antidrug Campaign ◽  
The U.S

The problems associated with drug abuse in the United States have received considerable attention in recent years. By the mid-1970s, approximately 500,000 Americans were addicted to heroin, while at least 15 million were regular or casual users of marijuana. None of this heroin originates domestically, and only a small percentage of the marijuana, and this of low potency, is home-grown. Consequently, the question of source has become cardinal to most analyses of drug use and abuse in the United States.Mexico has long been the primary source of high potency marijuana for the American market. Despite the recent influx from Jamaica and Colombia, Mexico still supplies an estimated 70% of the annual American consumption, or some 10 million pounds. More importantly, Mexico is currently the source of 70% to 80% of the heroin on the U.S. market, an alarming 6-8 ton annual figure. Furthermore, Mexico is both a primary transshipment route for cocaine, an increasingly popular drug originating in South America, and the source of vast quantities of psychotropic substances.

Future Warfare in the Western Pacific: Chinese Antiaccess/Area Denial, U.S. AirSea Battle, and Command of the Commons in East Asia

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Biddle ◽  
Ivan Oelrich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
New Era ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
The U.S

Many analysts worry that improvements in Chinese missile, sensor, guidance, and other technologies will enable China to deny the U.S. military access to parts of the Western Pacific that the United States has long controlled. Although these “antiaccess, area denial” (A2/AD) capabilities are real, they are a geographically limited long-term threat. As both the United States and China deploy A2/AD capabilities, a new era will emerge in which the U.S. military no longer enjoys today's command of the global commons, but is still able to deny China military hegemony in the Western Pacific. In this new era, the United States will possess a sphere of influence around allied landmasses; China will maintain a sphere of influence over its own mainland; and a contested battlespace will cover much of the South and East China Seas wherein neither power enjoys wartime freedom of surface or air movement. This in turn suggests that the Chinese A2/AD threat to U.S. allies is real but more limited than often supposed. With astute U.S. choices, most U.S. allies in this new system will be imperfectly, but substantially, secure.

scholarly journals Naval Integration: An Old Approach for a New Era

MCU Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
Scott Erdelatz ◽  
J. D. Canty ◽  
Mark Desens ◽  
Chris Seneko
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
New Era ◽  
The U.S

Current debates on naval integration mostly focus on whether the naval Services’ warfighting concepts are on target—the why of naval integration—or whether integration efforts are jeopardizing the Marine Corps’ ability to fulfill longstanding roles and missions. An underappreciated aspect of this topic is the process, or the how, of naval integration. The actions of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar period are a positive example of naval integration and indicative of the long-term effects that can follow. Many current developments, in particular the growing partnership of the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and fleet commands, are examples of effective naval integration and will help ensure that the Services arrive at the proper end state.

scholarly journals Elonis v. United States: The Doctrine of True Threats: Protecting Our Ever-Shrinking First Amendment Rights in the New Era of Communication

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-223
Author(s):  
Mary Margaret Roark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S

The First Amendment protects one of our most precious rights as citizens of the United States—the freedom of speech. Such protection has withstood the test of time, even safeguarding speech that much of the population would find distasteful. There is one form of speech which cannot be protected: the true threat. However, the definition of what constitutes a "true threat" has expanded since its inception. In the new era of communication—where most users post first and edit later—the First Amendment protection we once possessed has been eroded as more and more speech is considered proscribable as a "true threat." In order to adequately protect both the public at large and our individual right to free speech, courts should analyze a speaker’s subjective intent before labeling speech a "true threat." Though many courts have adopted an objective, reasonable listener test, the U.S. Supreme Court now has the opportunity, in deciding Elonis v. United States, to take a monumental step in protecting the First Amendment right to free speech. By holding that the speaker’s subjective intent to threaten is necessary for a true threat conviction, the Court will restore the broad protection afforded by the First Amendment and repair years of erosion caused by an objective approach.

scholarly journals The Benefits and Challenges of IFRS Adoption in India: The Dawn of a New Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Anubha Srivastava ◽  
Preeti Kulshrestha
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
New Era ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ifrs Adoption ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Massive Scale

We endeavor to examine the benefits and the key challenges associated to International financial reporting standards enforcement in India in the current paper. The research is founded on structured questionnaire survey of 150 accounting professionals and applied purposive sampling technique to assemble the data from target respondents from various business sectors of India. The data from secondary sources,conducted through personalized interview, has been examined qualitatively with respect to IFRS convergence.The research outcome contributes to the existing literature stating that the respondents are optimistic about the benefits related to IFRS adoption but the challenges are too a major roadblock. Since the enforcement of IFRS has already initiated in India thus it is imperative to comprehend the benefits and cost associated with IFRS in Indian context. This study results recognizes that though convergence process with IFRS will pose few key challenges but the overall benefit will overweigh the challenges. This study recommends that IFRS training seminars and workshops at massive scale should be embarked upon by regulatory bodies, professional organizations like ICAI, KPMGs and other training institutions to provide for a smooth transition from local standards to IFRS.

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