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An attack on the community of Marquetalia by the Cpolombian army sparked the start of the Colombian drug war
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During the 1990s, Cali cartel lawyers rewrote portions of the national constitution outlawing extradition. Drug bosses picked who ran the Cali telephone utility and secretly donated $6 million to elect presidential underdog Ernesto Samper.
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U.S. Government gives the Colombian Governement $1.5 Billion to combat the drug cartels
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President Felipe Calderón takes office. He also imposes a cap on salaries of high-ranking public servants and orders a raise on the salaries of the Federal Police and the Mexican Armed Forces. This was the start of the Mexican Drug War in trying to combat drug trafficking.
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an increase in military across columbia has made it more difficult for drug cartels there to operate causing Columbian drug cartels to lose alot of money making them sell alot of their drugs to Mexican Cartels for less money.
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since 2003 the percent of all Cocain that goes through Mexico has increased from 77% all the way up to 95%
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2006-2013 total deaths: 90,000-106,000
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U.S. Attorney General announced an international drug opperation callled project Reckoning, would take place to stop the drug trade. It was successful in the fact alot of drugs were confiscated however it did not work on the scale they would have liked it to.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged the U.S. role in fueling Mexico's drug violence, and said the United States had a responsibility to help address it.
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In 2009, 2,000 U.S. weapons were sold to people known to be involved with the drug cartels, but some 1,400 weapons were lost, many of which later turned up at crime scenes.
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U.S. border patrol agent was shot by a member of the Mexican cartels.
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