Drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Drug Trafficking is the smuggling of the illegal products like Contains from the countries where they are produced (Latin America) into the consumer markets like the United States. It is an extensive operation that has been in existence in especially in the last four decades. Drug Trafficking is an issue of great concern based on its high relationship with organized crime, and it has been the primary source of income for the criminal organizations established in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drug Trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean always occurs along with the trafficking of weapons, labor, and women and demonstrates high cases of murder to women particularly in Mexico. In the US/Mexican borderlands the operations are extended to the extent of complicating good and evil. The narco industry is highly linked to corrupt governance and is a critical, significant challenge within the producing and the market nations. The flow of the illicit drugs fuels the violence and corruption through the complex, adaptive and networked threats. To the mainland America Mexico serves as the main point of entry and accounts for the vast majority of the imports of illicit drugs in the United States.

Considering Colombia, it accounts for the most solid Cocaine production and distribution in Latin America. The 2009 statistics estimates Cocaine production in Mexico to 270 metric tons (MT) which were the leading supplier for the American and the worldwide market…

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