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In the US, around 195 cities have been infiltrated by drug trafficking that originated in Mexico. An estimated $10bn of the Mexican drug cartel's profits come from the US, not only supplying the Mexican drug cartels with the profit necessary for survival, but also furthering America's economic dependence on drugs. [11]
Drug trafficking air routes in South America monitored by the United States Southern Command. Venezuela has been a path to the United States and Europe for illegal drugs originating in Colombia, through Central America, Mexico and Caribbean countries such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. [citation needed]
The United States is the primary destination, but around 25 to 30% of global cocaine production travels from Latin America to Europe, typically via West Africa. [1] The major drug trafficking organizations (drug cartels) are Mexican and Colombian, and said to generate a total of $18 to $39bn in wholesale drug proceeds per year. [1]
The Zetas killed 72 migrants from Central and South America who were en route to the United States. The migrants were shot in the back of the head. “Drug traffickers in Mexico brag about their ...
His frightening follow-up, “The Least of Us,” published in 2021, tells of the transformation of drug trafficking in America beginning around 2015 and 2016 from plant-based drugs into ...
The paper did not address how to diminish U.S. demand for narcotics, the engine driving drug trafficking. In an article accompanying the study, three U.S.-based experts called the paper an ...
Drug trafficking organizations are defined by the United States Department of Justice as, "complex organizations with highly defined command-and-control structures that produce, transport, and/or distribute large quantity "Law enforcement reporting indicates that Mexican DTOs maintain drug distribution networks, or supply drugs to distributors, in at least 230 U.S. cities."
Cocaine demand and supply are booming worldwide and methamphetamine trafficking is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan where the drug is now being produced, a United ...