LatinNews Daily Report - 19 November 2013

SECURITY| DEA warns of increased heroin and meth production. On 18 November the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released its 2013 National Drug Threat Assessment report. The report states that while the DEA expects the current trend of lower cocaine production, observed since 2007, to continue, it expects production levels of heroin, marihuana and methamphetamines (meth) to increase due to greater involvement by Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations (DTOs). As regards marihuana, the DEA says the level of contraband in the Mexico-US border has reached a 1- year peak with 1,000 tonnes (t) seized every year. As for heroin and meth, the report says that the DEA has observed “a considerable increase” in large scale production of these drugs as more and more Mexican DTOs increasingly turn to their production (which results in greater availability in the US). Mexico is already identified as the number one meth supplier for the US market and the DEA notes that it has seen Mexican DTOs increasingly trying to expand the heroin market further into the US’s Midwest and East Coast.

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