What are the different ways cocaine is transported into the United States through Mexico Region?

What are the different ways cocaine is transported into the United States through Mexico Region?

            My question that I was searching information on was since cocaine largest consumption is in the United States, what are the different ways that cocaine is transported into the United States through the Mexico, Caribbean’s, etc? After doing some research this is what I found out that the U.S./Mexico border is the primary point of entry for cocaine shipments being smuggled into the United States. There is approximately 65 percent of cocaine smuggled into the United States crosses the southwest border. It’s interesting to learn that actual organized crime groups operate in Colombia control the worldwide supply of cocaine. There are actual key managers in Colombia that continue to oversee the overall operations that take place. It’s interesting to learn that Colombia-based drug groups have allowed Mexico-based trafficking organizations to play an increasing role in the U.S. cocaine trade. By the mid-1990’s, Mexico-based transportation groups were receiving up to half the cocaine shipment they smuggled for the Colombia-based groups in exchange for their services.

            Now today traffickers operating from Colombia continue to control the wholesale-level cocaine distribution that are heavily populated northeastern United States and all along the eastern seaboard in cities such as Boston, Miami, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia. The operating from Mexico wholesales go through the Midwestern United States. These cities conclude of Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angele, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. But during the 1990’s when the organized crime group from Mexico were expanding their roles as cocaine transporters and wholesale-level distributors control operations were in southern California. Now today, Chicago is the key command and control center for cocaine operations, and with that being said Atlanta is increasingly important as the trafficking hub for cocaine.

            So when it comes to the drug smuggling from the Mexico and Colombia area is that they actually ended up working with one another. They figured that they could actually benefit from one another and increase their profits. They were able to smuggle more drugs in the U.S. than any other route known. That is why many of the forces have really started to crack down to control this problem and keep it from occurring. Drug trafficking corporations have tried to come up with new ways that these smugglers are trying to come up with. But everyday these drug bases are coming up with new ways to get around the traffickers, yet it’s still a process that keeps everyone on their toes.  

Samantha N D

Source:

http://www.policyalmanac.org/crime/archive/drug_trafficking.shtml