Drugs: Fall in Demand Brings Cocaine Back Home: "“But one of the things about drugs is that the profit margins are extraordinary and the ability of drug trafficking organisations to absorb increased costs is phenomenal,” says Ms Felbab-Brown (Brookings Institute). “Hence the difficulties in trying to use supply-side measures to drive them out of business....
Mexican cartels have responded to the crackdown at home by forging new routes to the US with the youth gangs of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Some 90 per cent of cocaine shipments to the US last year came through Central America, according to the US government”
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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