IISS – Paper: The Expansion and Diversification of Mexican Cartels: Dynamic New Actors and Markets

Latin America’s transnational criminal landscape is reconfiguring due to the accelerated internationalisation and diversification of criminal organisations, which are able to control territory and project influence globally. Traditionally, cartels controlled limited territories and specialised on a single product, usually cocaine. The new criminal elites now traffic multiple products across extensive markets and regions. 12th December […]