News Briefing-Week of 11 of June

Caribbean, Cocaine, Colombia, Conflicts, Cooperation, Costa Rica, Drug war, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Newsbriefings, Panama, Security context, Trafficking, US

Conservative candidate Ivan Duque has won Colombia’s presidential runoff election on 17 June 2018. Duque’s presidential agenda included next to the peace deal also narco-trafficking. Colombia’s production of cocaine has increased, and armed groups are fighting each other for control of routes once controlled by FARC. The cocaine kingpin, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “La…