According to the World Report on Cocaine 2023, the United Nations Organization (UN) warned regarding the increase in violence in America, derived from drug trafficking and territorial disputes over the drug trafficking.
According to the letter, the violence linked to drug trafficking has been largely due to the rivalry between the groups of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel, two of the most powerful trafficking groups not only in Mexico, but also in the United States. , especially in the southern states, adjacent to Mexico and Latin America.
The report highlights that criminal organizations in Mexico continue to be powerful players in the matter worldwide, regardless of the fact that the criminal landscape within Mexican territory is increasingly complex and fragmented.
The study pointed out that currently the Mexican authorities have identified nine large criminal groups, within which a total of 53 cartels can be counted, which in turn consist of 65 cells throughout the country. Mexico.
Cocaine production in the world is on the rise
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) points out that world cocaine production has skyrocketed in the last two years following an initial slowdown caused by the irruption of the COVID-19 worldwide in 2020, increasing coca cultivation by 35% between 2020 and 2021, a record figure since 2016.
The report also analyzes the appearance of new centers of cocaine traffickingnoting that countries in South East Europe and Africa are increasingly being used as key transit areas for drugs.
The North Sea ports, in the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, are the places where cocaine arrives from America to Western Europe and in this regard, the drug dealers they are also diversifying their routes in Central America, sending more and more cocaine to Europa.
