90 percent of cocaine entering US from Mexico

Posted on April 27, 2008
Filed Under Americas, global drug trade |

The Economist magazine stated that Mexico “is now the gateway for up to 90% of cocaine entering the United States, as well as ever increasing amounts of marijuana and methamphetamines.”

Source: “A Survey of Mexico: Policing the Police,” The Economist, November 18, 2006, pg. 14.

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