Drug Smuggling by Pablo Escobar
Columbia is a huge country in Latin America, but unfortunately, it is known as one of the biggest global drug suppliers. Official Columbian foreign trade is based on petroleum, coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas and other local goods, but in real life, almost all Columbian economy is based on drug trafficking. Despite the fact, that Pablo Escobar is dead almost for 24 years, he is an iconic person in Columbia, where one part of country supposes him to be the modern version of Robin Good, a real hero when another part considers him as the biggest villain in the history of the Columbian nation. Without any doubt, he created the unique system of drug trafficking around the world, he changed the overall philosophy of drug smuggling and probably was the richest human alive. He became one of the most powerful drug lords in the world and was successfully bringing over 80 percent of the drugs that came into the United States.
Ordinary citizens propose that it is easy to become successful drug supplier, but they are totally mistaken. Drug dealers that only could resell drugs to drug addict some time or other would be arrested for drug trafficking. This business is very cruel, and only the strongest and artful dealers could become successful. Pablo Escobar was a unique person that reached a lot of success in this dark part of business. To become successful drug dealer, the person should have a strong character work with criminals, to be perfect manager to deal with complex schemes of drug smuggling, good psychologist to deal with all deviant individuals involved into this business, perfect strategist to bribe corrupted customers and police officers, perfect logistician to transport the drugs with minimal risks and costs, and just to be minion of fortune to work in such risky environment. Pablo Escobar collected all these characteristics because he was able to subdue all amount of drug cartels around the Columbia and other South American regions. In addition, he established the perfect shipping into the United States of America, with over 80 percent of successful delivery.
To understand the background of such huge criminal deviant individuality it is useful to use criminological and psychological theories of criminal behavior. According to Lyman and Potter (2007), the criminological theory is rooted in criminal behavior, it considers the characteristics of individuals and society that result in crime. Criminologist argues a lot about which of criminological theories is most effective, but without a doubt, the criminal behavior could not be explained by a single theory. Only the mix of different theories is able to evaluate the criminal behavior. According to Kenney (2007), the most effective criminological theories are alien conspiracy theory, rational choice theory, and deterrence theory. The alien conspiracy theory is based on the idea that only foreigners are responsible for crimes in the United States (based on Sicilian mafia dominance in 19th and 20th century). …
