Ecuador Black Market Value: $0.100 Billion ($100 Million)
World Average: $20.34 Billion
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Data on Ecuador Black Market
Drug flow through Ecuador
An estimated 200 tons of cocaine is transported through Ecuador each year, with 60 percent going to the United States and the rest heading to Europe.
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- Tags: Ecuador Black Market | April 10th, 2010
Drug seizures in Ecuador in 2009
63 tons of cocaine was seized in Ecuador in 2009, double the amount seized in 2008. In addition, 7 drug processing labs were destroyed in 2009, up from 2 in 2009.
There were also an increase of 15 percent in the number of arrests of drug smuggling “mules”.
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- Tags: Cocaine, Ecuador Black Market | February 3rd, 2010
Colombian Cocaine transported through Ecuador
Up to one-third of all cocaine produced in Colombia is believed to be trafficked through Ecuador in 2009, four times more than the amount transported earlier.
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- Tags: Cocaine, Colombia Black Market, Ecuador Black Market | February 3rd, 2010
Price of Heroin in the Americas
Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in the Americas.
| Country | Wholesale Price (per kilogram) |
Retail Price (per gram) |
| Argentina | 110,000 | NA |
| Brazil | 50,000 | 50 |
| Canada | 99,389.1 | 335.5 |
| Colombia (No.4) | 9,992 | 20.1 |
| Ecuador | 13,500 | NA |
| Mexico (No.4) | 35,000 | NA |
| United States (No.4) | 71,200 | 131 |
| Venezuela | 9,300 | 11.6 |
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Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.
