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On March 25, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that "[America's] insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade", and that "the United States bears shared responsibility for the drug-fueled violence sweeping Mexico." [409]
The legal status of drugs and drug precursors varies substantially from country to country and is still changing in many of them. United Nations classify drugs internationally, it affects all its member states.
The second major chokepoint in the drug supply chain lies in Mexico. The Mexican cartels have become the "one-stop-shop" for processing and distributing nearly all the illegal drugs coming into ...
Country Possession Sale Transport Cultivation Notes Afghanistan Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Cocaine is fully illegal in Afghanistan and drug trafficking and drug smuggling are crimes and sins that are punishable by death, cocaine is lesser common that opium in the taliban government, cocaine is forbidden in Afghanistan due to the USA pressure and foreign intervention.
Mexico's president walks a fine line between pleasing her constituents and placating Trump. Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs?
Amid a fresh wave of violence, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has sent her security chief and thousands of troops to stem a bloody escalation of drug cartel crime in Sinaloa state, signaling ...
The United States is a lucrative market for illegal drugs. The United Nations estimates that nearly 90% of cocaine sold in the United States originates in South America and is smuggled through Mexico. [23] Mexico is the largest foreign supplier of marijuana and the largest source of heroin for the U.S. market.
Back in Mexico, of course, organized crime continues to wreak havoc. But how many people are on the payrolls of the Mexican cartels? Now researchers have come up with an estimate: 175,000.