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George Enrique Herbert is a Belizean gang leader and drug trafficker who worked with Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to distribute controlled drugs in Belize and the United States. He was convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court on December 14, 2004 on multiple cocaine importation charges. He is married and has one child.
The Misuse of Drugs Act is a national drug control law of Belize that divides drugs into three classes. There does not seem to be any mechanism for adding, removing, or transferring drugs between classes without amending the statute.
Until the 1980s, Belize was the fourth-largest exporter of cannabis to the United States, behind Colombia, Mexico, and Jamaica. Since the mid-1980s, Belize's production has dropped dramatically due to eradication efforts by the Belizean government, supported by the United States. By 1994, Belizean production was at "negligible levels." [2]
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[9] [10] These drugs are supplied by Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs). The U.S. government estimates that Mexican DTOs gain tens of billions of dollars each year from drug sales in the U.S. alone. [11] DTOs are continually battling for control of territory in Mexico used for the cultivation, importation and transportation of illicit drugs ...
Escobar managed to take over control of most of the police forces in Medellín and surrounding areas through bribery and coercion, allowing him to expand his drug trafficking business. [5] Currently, scholars argue that the term "narco-state" is oversimplified because of the underlying networks running the drug trafficking organisations. [6]
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