Cocaine Prices in Australia, New Zealand: Worth the Trek for Traffickers
Two multi-ton cocaine seizures near Australia and New Zealand had an estimated street value of over $1 billion, leading to…
Coca May Have Permanently Taken Root in Central America
Honduran and Guatemalan authorities are eradicating record amounts of coca plants, further evidence of the coca’s expansion beyond the traditional…
InSight Crime’s Cocaine Seizure Round-Up 2022
Cocaine seizure figures from Latin America in 2022 suggest traffickers are varying their routes to avoid detection, as authorities get…
5 Takeaways From US State Department Narcotics Report
The US State Department’s yearly drug report has found that coca cultivation is slowly spreading outside of the three traditional…
Pablo Escobar and the Real Criminal Story of the Cocaine Bear
The sight of a bear enthusiastically snorting a line of cocaine off a severed human leg may be an enduring…
García Luna Convicted, But Corruption Concerns Endure in US-Mexico Partnership
The conviction of Mexico’s former public security minister, Genaro García Luna, on drug trafficking and corruption charges represents a complicated…
Ecuador’s ‘Most Wanted’ Criminal Captured in Colombia
Ecuadorian authorities captured an alleged drug kingpin who bridged the gap between Ecuador’s local gangs and the international drug trafficking…
Guatemala Sees Record Coca, But No Cocaine
A radical increase in coca eradication in Guatemala has raised questions about the country’s potential role as a cocaine producer,…
Record Cocaine Seizures in Colombia as Government Negotiates with Traffickers
Colombia seized 671 tons of cocaine in 2022, worth over $16 billion at US wholesale prices. The haul for 2023…
Ecuador’s Navy Grappling With Mounting Evidence of Criminal Collusion
Intelligence reports have revealed that troops within Ecuador’s navy have been regularly caught collaborating with leading criminal gangs, further exacerbating…