The Governor of Mexico’s Guerrero State is calling for the legalization of opium poppy for medicinal purposes as an alternative plan for minimizing the insecurity in the state, as revealed by Insight Crime. However, as stated by the UNODC Representative to Mexico “structural solutions” must be found to tackle the issue of violence. Reportedly, in…
InSight Crime has reported an investigation by Spanish Police which demonstrates that Juan Manuel Muñoz Luévano, a Mexican citizen, headed a criminal organisation that brought cocaine into Spain via the port of Valencia. Muñoz was accused of money laundering and criminal association. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will quit the cocaine drug trade…
Paraguay authorities reported the interception of a tour bus loaded with 296 kilos of cocaine on its way to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two men were arrested and charged with drug trafficking and other crimes. According to officials, the cocaine would have a value of $3 million on the Brazilian market. Venezuelan…
A Bulgarian woman has been detained at the Athens International Airport when she was trying to smuggle over 2.5 kilograms of cocaine into Greece. Allegedly, the woman arrived from Rio de Janeiro via Zurich and was a member of a drug-trafficking group dedicated to smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Europe. BBC informed that security forces…
It has been reported that drug dealers in Rio have started peddling Olympic-branded cocaine. According to Rio authorities, drug crime in the city has become a serious matter where homicides were up 15 percent in the first four months of 2016 in comparison to the same period last year. Spanish Guardia Civil officers have identified…
