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Colombia: Coca Price Crash Offers Opportunities And Challenges In The Fight Against Narcotrafficking, Juan Rojas Jan 2023

Colombia: Coca Price Crash Offers Opportunities And Challenges In The Fight Against Narcotrafficking, Juan Rojas

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In recent months, the price of coca, the raw plant used to make cocaine, collapsed by as much as 50 percent in Colombia, while coca buyers have seemingly all but disappeared. In the country’s most impoverished regions, where hundreds of thousands of families depend on the crop for their livelihood, coca growers are resorting to stashing kilos of coca paste at home, waiting for buyers, Spanish daily El País reported.


Mexican Cartels Bolster Foothold And Alliances In Colombia, Juan Rojas Jan 2023

Mexican Cartels Bolster Foothold And Alliances In Colombia, Juan Rojas

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Between 2018 and 2022, Colombia’s Ombudsman Office emitted more than 20 alerts that affiliates of Mexico’s largest and most powerful cartels were active on Colombian soil. Some 40 Mexican nationals, according to the Ombudsman Office, were behind bars for drug trafficking charges in Colombia as of early 2023.