The tri-border where Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela meet has long served as a transit corridor for cocaine.
Drug Policy
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Cocaine traffickers in Venezuela are exploiting a new route to the Caribbean Sea through the state of Monagas.
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Coca has increasingly expanded into Peru’s border regions, as well as into indigenous communities and protected nature areas.
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Mexico
US Indicts Chinese Companies in New Approach to Fighting Precursor Chemicals
by Efren Bryneby Efren BryneThe US government has brought its first-ever criminal charges against Chinese companies for allegedly trafficking precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl into the United States, demonstrating a sharpened focus on …
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Bolivia is still not using its radars to combat drug trafficking, nearly seven years after purchasing them for $215 million from French company Thales.
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After the arrest of César Peralta, the Dominican Republic has continued going after remaining cocaine trafficking networks.
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Historic cocaine seizures in Sweden highlight the Nordic country’s increasing role as a gateway for cocaine from Latin America to Europe.
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Cocaine trafficked from Suriname into French Guiana and then on to France makes up some 30% of all cocaine consumed in the European nation.
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The difficulty of sourcing finished fentanyl from China has Mexican groups acquire precursor chemicals to synthesize fentanyl themselves.
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As homicides rise in Costa Rica, local drug trafficking groups vie for control of the cocaine trade, while others the local marijuana market.