Drugs and Organised Crime in Latin America

Abstract

All the ingredients required to produce highly profitable illicit drugs can be found in Latin America. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia provide the coca plantations and chemicals come from Brazil. The powerful organisations and their laboratories are in Colombia. In the narcotics context, there is not a great difference between countries: practically all the countries of Latin America are involved in some way, in some scale. Each country participates with its specific contribution: from production, to transformation, to processing and, finally, distribution. Latin America is a melting pot for organisations such as the cartels, Italian and US mafia, Lebanese and Nigerian syndicates and even newcomers from eastern Europe.

Citation

Henry Millard, G. (1997), "Drugs and Organised Crime in Latin America", Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 73-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027122