ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand the role of Colombian drug criminals in global drug trafficking and explains the development of Mexican domination of the illicit drug market as well as to understand the link between drug trafficking and terrorism. It analyses various organizations of Asian drug traffickers and explains about the role of foreign drug-trafficking organizations as it relates to the United States market. The chapter looks at the criminal trafficking groups originating in those countries. In addition to the human cost of cocaine manufacture and trafficking, illicit coca bush cultivation and the transformation of coca into cocaine continue to cause serious environmental damage even though coca bush cultivation has decreased. The growth and invincibility of organized crime groups involved in drug trafficking in recent years is one of the most urgent public concerns in Mexico and the US.–Mexico border areas.
