PUSHING PRODUCTIVE COCA SEEDS, MEXICAN CARTELS RESHAPE COLOMBIA'S DRUG INDUSTRY TUMACO/NORTE DE SANTANDER, Colombia (Reuters) - Emissaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more close
PUSHING PRODUCTIVE COCA SEEDS, MEXICAN CARTELS RESHAPE COLOMBIA'S DRUG INDUSTRY TUMACO/NORTE DE SANTANDER, Colombia (Reuters) - Emissaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more close
PUSHING PRODUCTIVE COCA SEEDS, MEXICAN CARTELS RESHAPE COLOMBIA'S DRUG INDUSTRY
TUMACO/NORTE DE SANTANDER, Colombia (Reuters) - Emissaries of Mexican drug cartels are involving themselves more closely in cocaine production in Colombia, paying farmers in advance and pushing cultivation of highly-productive strains, coca growers, security officials and rights activists say.
Top Mexican cartels like Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generacion - which have large areas of influence within Mexico and engage in brutal violence for control of drug routes - have long purchased cocaine from Colombia's guerrilla groups and crime gangs.
A drug-sniffing dog sniffs barrels that authorities say contain cocaine dissolved in chemical fertilizers and honey, in Cartagena
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