"Traffic"

Paper Summary:

Analysis of Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film dealing with the drug trade. Issue of why drugs are grown in poorer countries of Latin America & smuggled into rich countries. Drug cartels. Failure of U.S. War on Drugs. Economic law of supply & demand that governs the drug trade. Plot and motifs of film.

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"The recent film Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) suggests many of the reasons why the war on drugs has seemed doomed to failure, based on the economics of the international drug trade today. The film tells several stories at one time, but at heart, all relate to the central issue of why drugs are grown in poor countries like Mexico and then smuggled into richer countries like the United States, why desperate people will enter the drug trade to make a living, and why huge cartels have come into being to oversee the drug trade.


The failure of the war on drugs has been much discussed, and even conservatives are beginning to express doubts. A recent article in The Washington Times asks,
For decades, we have been grinding away at the dope trade, spending hugely, putting appalling numbers of..."

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