Mexican drug cartels, if viewed as a combined entity, control most of the cocaine entering the US via a number of trafficking routes.Ī report last November by, an analysis group of Latin American organised crime, described Venezuela as “a key transit country” for drug shipments to the US and Europe. Last year, reported that Mexico was experiencing one of its worst moments in the field of drug trafficking, with authorities unable to keep up. In a decade of drug violence, about 26,000 have gone missing. The cartels of Tijuana, Juarez and the Gulf have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Mexicans.
