QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Drug trafficking groups have diversified their activities into lines of business such as: -
All of the answers are correct (Copyright Piracy, Kidnapping, Extortion)
El Padrino refers to the head of the Guadalajara Cartel - True
Loan Sharking is one line of business Mexican drug cartels are known to have entered -
True
Mexicans were required to have visas to enter the United States by - 1929
The United States is not a major source of guns in Mexico's drug violence. - False
A narcocorrido refers to a ballad glorifying drug traffickers. - True
A straw purchaser is - A buyer of guns with a clean record who resells the gun to a
criminal
According to Corchado's source, one theory is the Juarez police are in part responsible
for the missing women in Juarez who theorizes they are; - All answers are correct
(Taken to be gang raped, Are lured by police into vehicles, Killed and disposed of,
Routines are studied by police)
According to Corchado's underworlds contacts, some Mexican journalists are on the
payrolls of cartels - True
According to Jones the La Familia Michoacana and the Caballeros Templarios are best
described as: - Insurgent
According to Jones the Zetas are best described as - Territorial
According to Payan the 3 defining events of the Customs Era were - The Mexican
Revolution, Prohibition and WWI
According to a drug trafficker Payan interviewed no intelligent drug trafficker would work
with terrorists because it would draw US government attention. - True
According to diplomat Crescencio Arcos, the US government did not share more with
the Mexican government in the 2000s because: - There is no one to trust in Mexico
Alfredo Corchado would lay low by covering: - Tourist Stories