Le blog de Claudio Meloni

In September 2014, 43 Ayotzinapa students were kidnapped in Iguala. Up to now investigations led by local police haven't been able to find out where the students were taken and what happened to them. Investigating Guerrero Unidos drug trafficking in Chicago, US officials wiretapped conversations about this plot. They appear to shed new light on the killings.

Senator Luis Guillermo Velez Trujillo, an ex-political Uribe's ally, told the US Embassy in Colombia that the Ochoa-Vàsquez crime family financed Uribe political campaign. He also added that Uribe is a cousin of the Ochoa Vasquez drug kingpin, one of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel, according to NSA's cables released today.

Drug trade organizations operate fairly openly and with freedom of movement and operations, with tactics that include roadblocks, the takeover of towns, and bottling up local military units and security forces. In many cases they operate with near total impunity in the face of compromised local security forces.

Los Zetas control the major drug trafficking corridors along the south Texas/Mexico border for the Gulf Cartel and are involved in or linked to numerous criminal activities including kidnapping, murder, and alien smuggling.

Pablo Escobar Gavira was the first able to create an organization in the same line of a multinational corporation. Regional cocaine distribution networks, lead by local managers, were able to transport large quantities of cocaine in the US and Europe by air, land and sea. Escobar was also the first to establish a complex international financial network lo launder drug profits.

Despite efforts of Kenyan police forces frequent seizures reveal how traffickers still find this country as a valid point of transit for drugs loads direct to both Africa and Europe.

A former member of a group of traffickers unveils the system and the routes used to import cocaine from Colombia.

Central America is the most unequal and insecure region in the world. In some case the reason is connected with the influence of criminal organizations, responsible for feeding corruption. Partly due to revenues from cocaine business.