Mexican Drug Cartels Now Trafficking Cocaine Directly from South America, Colombia Says Fox News Latino
go to original September 26, 2014

Colombia’s anti-narcotics director said that Mexico’s notorious drug cartels have taken a more active role in the production of cocaine and have made incursions into the South American nation.

It is known that Mexican cartels have for years had ties to local cocaine producers in Colombia, but this is the first time that a major Colombian official has admitted to the presence of active foreign traffickers in the country.

“We have discovered that there are Mexican cartels which have arrived in Colombia basically to negotiate and transport the drug themselves," said General Ricardo Restrepo of the national police, according to Reuters. “This gives them better returns and means Colombian traffickers are at less risk of being captured or caught in foreign judicial investigations."

While Restrepo did not mention specifically which cartels had made inroads into the country, Colombia has in the past reported the arrests of alleged members of the Sinaloa and the Zetas cartels, along with seizures of drugs shipments that were presumably destined for Mexico.

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