Impoverished Resort To Dangerous Methods

Poverty leads people resort to violent and extreme methods of acquiring money. In many impoverished countries, such as Columbia, the people resort to drug transporting a.k.a "mule work". The reason that people resort to such things is because they do not have any options when it comes to work. (As seen in Maria Full of Grace when the protagonist, Maria, had no other job except the flower plantation.)


Mule work consists of transporting drugs within a persons body from one country to another. This is something extremely dangerous to do because the "mule" always runs the risk of having a drug pellet burst in his or her stomach (this would result in death).





Such was seen in the movie "Maria Full of Grace"

After a drug pellet burst in the "mule", Lucy, the drug cartels killed her by opening up her stomach to remove the rest of the pellets that she did not pass out of her system. The reason they did this was because of money. Each pellet of drug is worth a lot of money so leaving them inside of Lucy's body after she died was not an option.

Mules fall into this job so easily because they are persuaded by large amounts of money. One character, Blanca, became a mule because the recruiter started to fill her mind with fantasies of having enough money to lift her family from povery and even buy her family a home.