Drug Cartel Discussion Paper

The Technological Secrets of Cocaine Inc. discusses the recent advances in the Colombian drug cartels advanced billion dollar IT infrastructure. During the late 90s drug cartels began to spend billions of dollars on communications, online transactions, radar systems, advanced networks on information gathering, radar monitoring, and new weapons. This network now allows the cartels to smuggle more cocaine into the US then was possible before. In this article Kaihla touches on many topics discussed in politics class. The obvious few are weapons, communications, and many other forms of technology proliferation. The article also mentions the use of military force, and comparisons to the new drug cartels to multinational corporations. Weight, and domain of varying forms of U.S. power are also mentioned throughout the article.
With the help of U.S. trained technology specialist the drug cartels were able to setup vast systems of trade which would not have been possible before. Many of ...