Shifting trafficking routes for illicit narcotics and the importance of Spain-US counter-narcotics cooperation

Eric L. Olson & Nina Gordon. ARI 79/2018 - 25/6/2018.

Flows of illicit drugs transiting the Atlantic into Spain from the Americas are of growing concern to Spain and the US with law enforcement, judicial, military and intelligence agencies intensifying cooperation in an effort to disrupt the global distribution of illicit drugs.

The Challenges of Drugs, Organised Crime and Terrorism in West and Central Africa

Antonio L. Mazzitelli. ARI 43/2006 - 6.4.2006.

There are numerous factors that explain the increased importance of West and Central Africa in the world map of transnational organised crime and criminal organisations. The effects of political, economic and social shortcomings are amplified by the concurrence of external factors. In this context, well-established foreign transnational criminal networks seeking safe operational bases for their illicit businesses (narcotics, human beings, pirated goods, illegal migration and natural resources) cooperate and cohabit with newly-born and successful West African indigenous criminal networks.