Mexican drug cartels increased drug trafficking to Europe via North Africa and Middle East, taking advantage of the current political instability in those areas.
Justice Department data from United States of Michael Braun, former administrator of the DEA, and Edgardo Buscaglia, professor at the ITAM, refer meetings of the Mexican cartels with foreign terrorists and criminal organizations. Information
U.S. Justice Department claims that national bosses met in countries of North Africa and the Middle East with criminal organizations, including the chaos generated by the political crisis in these regions, and increased the transfer of drug Europe.
"There is growing evidence that Mexican cartels are also involved in the loading of cocaine to Europe via west and north Africa, and would also work hard to create permissive environments in the west and north Africa to operate," said in interview Michael Braun, the former chief operating officer and administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Braun said there are a growing and significant demand for cocaine in Europe, the Soviet Union and many other countries outside the Western Hemisphere, which represents a great opportunity of money for organized crime.
"The Mexican cartels are not sitting idly waiting for others to global drug traffickers reap all the gains of the emerging European and Soviet markets," said Braun.
regard, said the euro is worth more than the dollar and less risky than cocaine trafficking in those markets, because the forces of law is not conspiracy laws have international drug trafficking or a tough mandatory sentencing guide that Congress created for the DEA.
"I do not think there is any evidence that reveals a connection between Al Qaeda with one or more Mexican cartels. However, we know that representatives of the Mexican cartels are now occupying the same space, while Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and their members in certain African countries in West Africa and in northern areas, "he said.
commented that, without doubt, there is a high risk of operating cartels and terrorists to form alliances in this permissive environment, and that is probably already happening.
"The cartels and terrorists certainly recognize the instability in areas of North Africa and Middle East as an opportunity to exploit, and experts can be naïve to believe that criminal organizations do not exploit the situation," he said.
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Between 2009 and 2010, the DEA informed the U.S. Congress on the presence of Mexican drug cartels operating in northern Africa and the Middle East.
"A Mexican criminal groups are going to charge more to access routes that are used today, but they pay for drug trafficking is still business for them, "said Edgardo Buscaglia, professor at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM).
These groups, he said, are now in 52 countries worldwide.
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