Cocaine Trafficking in the Caribbean and West Africa in the era of the Mexican cartels

About the Book

This book deals with three major developments within the illicit drug trade of the Caribbean Basin that not only changed the nature of the illicit trade but has expanded the expanse of the trade as it now impacts Africa and Asia making it truly globalised. The three major developments dealt with are: the trafficking jump to West Africa by Caribbean Basin drug trafficking organisations, the rise to dominance of the Mexican cartels in the illicit trade of the Caribbean Basin and the evolution and nature of Caribbean gangland and its organic links to the illicit drug trade.

About the Author

Daurius Figueira is a researcher and is employed as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He has previously published two books on the illicit drug trade in the Caribbean: "Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean the case of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana" and "Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean Vol. 2 the case of Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela".