Fighting back is int he rise for the Italian goverment. Luigi Esposito an influential mafia boss and the country’s 30th most wanted man was captured in a luxury villa in Posillipo a northern city of Naples. It is believed that he is one of the heads of the Nuvoletta clan of the camorra who are known to operate in the Naples region. It is believed that Esposito is an expert’s money-launderer that obtains money, who funneled illicit cash from drug trafficking into tourism and other illicit businesses making around $17 billion. Camorra mafia has 3,600 members including 15 of the 30 most wanted men. This mafia focuses more in drugs, prostitution and various businesses. 
Italy’s law enforcement has being changing and they are becoming tougher on crime. Since the prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi there has been15 arrests of the Esposito mafia and who’s members are in the 30 most wanted men. Italian officials are very happy about the way the current prime minister is doing things because he is doing things to capture mafia members.The public are starting to feel safe and give the law enforcement tips because they want to feel more secure and the prime minister is working hard to accomplish that. The current government is telling the public that they will be building new prisons or use old prisons on the islands around the country, this gives the public a sense of safety because the government is fighting crime and looking for places to put the mafia when they arrest them.
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Many drug lords of different countries such as Colombians are now shifting their drug transportation. The Colombians went from sending cocaine to the Caribbean to Europe, because of the better opportunity to make more money. They are becoming more intelligent because in order to move from one country to another Colombians have to transship the drug through the South Atlantic from Venezuela and to the Africa, through Spain and into Europe According to the spokesman of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The FARC guerrilla movement (which they are known to kill, kidnap and harm people), which they seek to destabilize the government of Colombia is involved and it is known to the authorities that they are linked to the Islamists in North Africa.
A greater concern about the new way of transporting drugs is the groups involved in it; groups such as Al Qaeda in the Meghreb (AQIM), and it is believed that they operate in Moroco, Algeria and Tunisia. The North Africa officials stated that AQIM is amassing large sums of money from the drug trade to use it in financing attacks to cause fear among tourists and keep them away from there. The Middle east intelligence official stated that CIA tries to monitos the trafficking but cannot stop it in a country where Islamists and drug dealers because they bribe the officials to keep them quiet. 
Rendon was found “like a dog under a palm tree” according to President Uribe. When Rendon was captured he was living like a dog hiding, in the jungle. It took many months of patient planning and intelligence work in this high risk operation. The reason was because Rendon was known to be a high risk person, who killed without compassion, who did not care what he did in order to obtain more control or to protect himself. Prior to this fantastic operation, there was an operation that failed because Rendon had hired people to kill any cop getting close to him, and that person would he a reward of 1,000 dollars for every police officer. This time Rendon was alone and he was easy target.
Recently the United States filed charges against 44 people, including 10 Mexican nationals for smuggling cocaine that is considered to be worth millions of dollars (2). There are some drug traffickers who accomplish the goal of smuggling the drugs even with the high secure borders. The U.S officials arrested one of the most Mexican wanted man “Joaquin Guzman” as well as several high ranked drug cartel leaders.
The U.S authorities are making the best they can to decrease violence in regards of smuggling drugs across the Mexican border. Michele Leonhard, the acting head of the U.SDrug Enforcement Agency (DEA) [stated] that the U.S is offering a reward of 5 million dollars for information leading to the arrests of the Mexican drug cartel leaders (2). It is believed that 90% of the cocaine that comes into the U.S is smuggled via Mexico; the DEA says (2). The war against drugs has being and will continue to be an issue in the U.S. Fighting back and doing whatever it takes to win this war will take time, it will take a lot effort and sadly many innocent lives.
Terrorism and drugs trafficking are they link together? Can drug trafficking fund terrorism? The world’s major grower of opium poppy that is the country of Afghanistan does fund terrorism. It has being reported that since September 11, 2001 attacks there are links between Afghan drug trafficking, terrorism and other radical Islamic movements (1). For this reason there have being major changes in how to deal with such worldwide problem. The problem does not just include drug addicts but also this is the major terrorism funding. The major growing field of opium poppy in Afghanistan contributes the terrorist groups such as the Taliban economically. Therefore, something must be done to stop this illicit business that is harming thousands of people in the world. For this reason the Afghan law enforcement task forced have led to various raids on opium laboratories as a start of the war on drugs in this country (2).
The United States and the United Nations (UN), are working together to end the drug trafficking in Afghanistan by destroying the opium poppy fields. Richard Holbrooke, the special adviser of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and who is working under the President of the United States Barack Obama and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that [they] will not target the Afghan farmers, but the Taliban who buy their crops (3). As for right now the war on drug trafficking in this country is not going well. According to Antonio Maria Costa, the UN drug chief, said “Eradication efforts were seen as inefficient because too little was being destroy at too high cost (3).” There must be a better way of combating this major problem. Afghanistan is the world’s leading source of opium cultivating 93% of the world’s heroin. Nonetheless, the opium cultivation fell 19% in 2008, but with an estimated gain of $50 million to $70 million that went to the Taliban terrorist group this is according to the UN drug office. 
The key Afghan opium figures are the following; In the year 2007 there was about 193,000 hectares of opium, by the year 2008 the number dropped to 157,000 hectares with the help of the US and UN forces. Since the year 2007 the number of opium free providences has increased almost 50%. About 98% of all opium is grown in only seven providences in the south west, which is known that the Taliban are settled in those places. In year 2008, Helmand providence in the South, cultivated 103,000 hectares. This is two thirds of all opium cultivated in Afghanistan. In 2007, 19,047 hectares of opium was eradicated and in 2008 only 5,480 this according to the UN office on drugs and crime (3).
