1. Latin American Current issues
Lesson #7

2. The Richest man in Latin America
Carlos Slim Helú [ˈkaɾlos esˈlim eˈlu];
a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world.
Known as the "Warren Buffett of Mexico“
has extensive holdings in a number of Mexican companies
has amassed a fortune in the fields of
communications, real estate, airlines, media, technology, retailing, and finance. Currently the chairperson and chief executive of Latin America's largest mobile-phone carrier in 2010
His net worth as of December 2014 is estimated at $72.6 billion.
Top five richest men in the World
Bill Gates (net worth $76 billion),
Carlos Slim Helu (net worth $72 billion)
Amancio Ortega (net worth $64 billion)
(Spanish fashion executive )
Warren Buffett (net worth $58.2 billion)
Larry Ellison (net worth $48 billion).

3. Pablo Escobar
Was a notorious and wealthy Colombian drug lord and an exclusive cocaine trafficker.
In 1983, he had a short-lived career in Colombian politics
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4. America’s greatest structure:
Click – how the locks work

5. Why build the Panama Canal?
Draw arrows where canals are needed

6. Reason to build the canal
Click – 2 min trip through canal

7. How they built the canal
Click – building the canal

8. PANAMA CANAL

9. Commercial break
(… in case you were having a bad day…)

10. Expansion project

11. How the canal works
What is a “lock”? How does it make the canal possible?
Why are locks needed?

12. Current Issues in Latin America
Drugs
Illegal Immigration
Current Trade issues

13. Drug Products Mainly three drugs Cocaine from Columbia, Peru, Bolivia
Coca is ONLY found in Andes
Marijuana from Jamaica
Heroin from Columbia (from opium poppies)

14. I. Drug Trade from Latin America
Plants used to produce drugs
Poppy Plant
Coca Plant
For Opium
For Cocaine

15. Results of Drug Trade Effects of Cocaine
$51 billion cost to government / year
1.5 million arrests / year
2 million currently in jail for drug crimes
(1/100 of population – most in world)
Effects of Heroin
(an opiate)

16. Drug Smuggling 90% of all US cocaine enters via Mexico
was via the Caribbean into Florida
United States imports 75 % of their exports
The major drug trafficking organizations
(drug cartels) are Mexican and Colombian
generate $20 to $40 billion
“Mules” are used to carry drugs
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Bricks of Cocaine

17. Where it drugs come from

18. … and where they go…

20. How drugs get here
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21. The Old Way:

22. The new way: narco-submarine
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23. The narco-sub, not submerged…

24. To stop drug importation:

27. Increase in last couple years

29. II. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Smuggling
Trafficking
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30. Definitions false pretenses pays for assistance
Trafficking – a person is trafficked if
she/he agrees under
to relocate for employment reasons
and is forced into involuntary forms of
Labor
Smuggling – a person is smuggled if
she/he seeks and
to cross borders without documents,
but is allegedly free once arriving in
the new country
false pretenses
pays for assistance

31. Definitions false pretenses Trafficking – a person is trafficked if
she/he agrees under
to relocate for employment reasons
and is forced into involuntary forms of
Labor
false pretenses

32. Definitions pays for assistance Smuggling – a person is smuggled if
she/he seeks and
to cross borders without documents,
but is allegedly free once arriving in
the new country
pays for assistance

33. Why do people sneak into the US?
The main reason people CHOOSE to break the law and illegally immigrate is for
and for jobs that Mexico does not have.
higher wages

34. Smuggling
Smuggling means someone helps the illegal into the US.
That person is called
Coyotes charge from $300 to $50,000 per person.
Often, the price is so high, the illegal will spend years of FORCED LABOR paying off debt.
Sometimes… forever…
coyotes

35. Common Sites of Forced Labor
Agriculture and food processing
Construction
Domestic Workers
Restaurants
Assembly plants
Garment and textile workers
Sex industry

36. Estimates of Force Labor
Exact figures are difficult to calculate because
trafficking is illegal and hidden
women, men and children are victims of forced labor yearly
1.4 million are in commercial sex work
760,000 are economically exploited
600,000 are in mixed commercially and sexually exploited
2.4 million

37. Human Trafficking 4 million 7-10 billion
Human Trafficking – Modern slavery
Over persons trafficked a year – U.N. estimate
dollar a year illegal industry
Third largest illegal industry in the world (drugs and arms sales)
4 million
7-10 billion

38. What are we doing about it?
The Justice Department created a unit to pursue human trafficking cases
The FBI currently has 212 ongoing human trafficking investigations
The Justice Department has initiated 60 investigations in the past four months.
Last year, federal prosecutors charged 222 defendants and won 98 convictions.

39. Image analysis

40. Combination of maps and graphs
What does this image show about the relationship we have with Mexico?

41. Current Trade Look for details… Who do these guys represent?
What are these guys doing that might not be good for us?
Who is this?
Who does he represent?

42. 3. Current Trade imbalance
How can we best benefit from our poorer neighbors to the south?
How can they benefit from their wealthy neighbor to the North?

44. Friday documentaries Drug Smuggling (45min) Human Trafficking (45min)
Human Trafficking (45min)