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38 million animals are taken from the Amazon Rainforest each year for the purpose of animal trafficking.

Source: Alan Campana, “Animal Investigators: Solving Wildlife Crimes and Saving Endangered Species,” Wilson Center, May 20, 2009.

The illegal wildlife trade in Brazil generates $2 Billion in revenue, according to Brazilian trafficking organization Renctas.

The Brazilian market makes up to 10 percent of the total illegal trade in wildlife.

Source:  brazilmax.com, “Combating Brazilian Wildlife Traffic: Activist Dener Giovani ,” Renctas, August 19, 2006. Accessed on August 7, 2009.

The Brazilian Association for the Development of Video Games finds that up to 94 percent of all video games sold in Brazil are pirated.

Source:  Pedro Franco, “A Nation of Pirates,” Escapist, May 12, 2009.

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in the Americas.

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in the Americas.

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

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Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Ecstasy in the Americas.

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

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Prices are in US Dollars and represent the typical price of Heroin in the Americas.

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009:  Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Law enforcement officials in Brazil have begun targeting well-educated and financially secure teenagers and young adults in their crackdown on the popular club drug ecstasy.  According to a report in the New York Times, more and more young people are being arrested and charged for the trafficking of ecstasy.  In 2007, police seized 211,000 ecstasy pills, 17 times more than the year before.  In 2008, 132,621 pills were seized in the country.  

Read the article “Ecstasy Ensnares Upper-Class Teenagers in Brazil” at the New York Times here.

The United States and several other Latin American countries are to begin targeting drug routes that travel through West Africa.

From the LA Times:

Alarmed by the rise in Latin American drug traffic in West Africa, nations including Colombia, Brazil and the United States are establishing or increasing their police presence in that unstable region.

Racked by internal strife that has left them poor, crime-ridden and institutionally weak, several West African nations in recent years have become key transit hubs for Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian cocaine headed to Europe.

In an interview last week, Colombian National Police commander Gen. Oscar Naranjo said he would soon station 10 anti-narcotics police in nine West African countries, with a headquarters in Sierra Leone.

“We want to establish a common front with these countries, to help identify the Colombian traffickers who come and go,” Naranjo said during a police graduation ceremony in El Espinal, Colombia.

In Washington, Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Garrison Courtney said Wednesday that his agency was also beefing up its presence in West Africa, although he did not specify how many agents would be added or where.