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Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the US behind cannabis, [14] and the US is the world's largest consumer of cocaine. [15] According to the DEA, about 93% of the cocaine in the US originated in Colombia and was smuggled across the Mexico–US border. [16]
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Map of violent crime per 100,000 people in the US by state in 2016. The United States of America is the world's largest consumer of cocaine [58] and other illegal drugs. [59] [60] [61] This is a list of American criminal organizations involved in illegal drug traffic, drug trade and other related crimes in the United States:
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The Sinaloa Cartel, named after the Mexican state where the gang was formed in the late 1980s, is one of the most powerful criminal groups in the world, raking in billions of dollars annually by ...
A 2020 DEA map shows where different Mexican cartels have influence on American soil. “We are literally under siege,” said Sheriff Kieran Donahue of the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office.
Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics flow into the United States. [121] Mexican cartels distribute Asian [122] methamphetamine to the United States. [38] It is believed that almost half the cartels' revenues come from cannabis. [123] Cocaine, heroin, and increasingly methamphetamine are also traded. [124]
In November 1996, shortly after then-CIA Director John Deutsch went to Los Angeles to refute allegations raised by the Gary Webb investigative report on cocaine trafficking and the CIA, a Miami jury indicted Venezuelan CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who "led a CIA counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on U.S. streets in ...