Milenio (Mexico) 5/1/2011
Market for Synthetic Drugs Expands
In the U.S. it is estimated there is a consumption of 37.7 tons of amphetamines . Trafficking of synthetic or designer drugs has become a boom which implies a market of 53 million consumers in the world, only behind marijuana, says a report of the Ministry of Security Federal Public.
In Mexico, the potential consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants is 4.29 tons, with average value of 281.9 million dollars in the wholesale market.
This type of drug is placed behind marijuana and cocaine, with consumption 514.9 and 27.65 tonnes respectively. The wholesale market value of both drugs is 41.19 and 345.73 million dollars respectively, according to the report of SSP (police). Accounting for profits for traffickers, amphetamine and its derivatives are placed just behind cocaine, which the Mexican authorities alerted the international community at the last meeting of the International Conference for Drug Control (IDEC, for its acronym in English) held in Cancun.
At that conference, attended by 103 countries on five continents and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English), the Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, as chairman of the agency, warned that “the rise of amphetamines and their derivatives poses new challenges for the international community. “ With the growth in the development of drugs derived from that substance, Mexico proposed a progressive agreement to approve legislation concerning the control of precursor chemicals.
The federal SSP analysis indicates that “a general concern is the advancement of synthetic drugs, mainly taking into account the facilities for production and distribution.”
In the U.S., consumption is estimated at 37.7 tons of amphetamine, which represents 2,479,000 dollars in the wholesale market and 4,815,000 dollars at retail. To curb the threat posed by the advance of amphetamines and derivatives, 103 IDEC member states agreed to standardize their laws concerning the control of precursor chemicals that are used in the manufacture of such drugs.
Based on a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, it estimated that in 2009 the market for amphetamines produced more than 160 tons, “with a number of consumers at the highest point, close to 53 million people around the world. “
The SSP indicated that increased drug addicts shows that the drug trade is dynamic and flexible markets. According to estimates by the World Drug Report 2010, production of marijuana has reached levels close to 600 thousand tons of a potential market of 190 million consumers.
As for the cocaine, with an estimated production of 800 tons, the market value is about 80 billion dollars with 19 million consumers internationally. Global opium production is at 8000 tons and the estimated value of this drug in the world market reaches 65 billion dollars with about 22 million consumers.
The number of users of amphetamine derivatives is only behind marijuana, with a boom that is explained by the relative ease of producing synthetic or designer drugs.
“The production and consumption of amphetamine type stimulants is not centralized, which means it happens around the world and tends to move as they apply controls on precursor chemicals.”
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Shorts:
MEXICAI, BAJA CALIFORNIA - About 30 prison inmates in Mexicali rioted Saturday. They were transferred west to a prison in Tecate.-Milenio
SANTIAGO PAPASQUIARO, DURANGO - Military finds 9 plastic bags of bones and a bin filled with burned skeletal bones. The number of bodies is unknown. This is the same state that recently found 102 deomposed bodies in narco graves -Milenio
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO - Three men and a woman found tortured and executed the first day of the month. This is the third straight day of violence in Acapulco.-Milenio
CUENAVACA, MORELOS – Former police officer found tortured and dismembered in five plastic bags. This brigs the body count to 100 in that area for 2011.-Milenio
MEXICO – Twenty-nine suspected Zetas Members Arrested-El Universal
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Blog del Narco (http://www.blogdelnarco.com/)
APODACA, NUEVO LEÓN: Police Chief and nine officers kidnapped. Report received of thre bodies, and believed to possibly be some of them.
MEXICO Children’s Day. There have been 50,000 children orphaned by the drug violence. (Sign child is holding says ‘Assassin, don’t kill me, I want to continue growing up’)
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO: Three men found decapitated inside hotel room by cleaning lady. Located near Port of Acapulco.
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CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA Federal police agents attacked, one dead, one wounded. Innocent woman civilian wounded, but okay. (Notice bullet holes in vehicle.)
CERRO COLORADO, BAJA CALIFORNIA Brother of former police chief assassinated.
CADEREYTA, NUEVO LEÓN Six Zetas captured by Mexican Marines. Seized three AK-47 rifles, a handgun, 44 magazines, 68 rounds, a magazine for 100 rounds, a bag of tire puncturing devices (far left in photo-called caltrops), a bag of marijuana, and six vehicles.
GUADALUPE, NUEVO LEÓN: Chase and shootout between rivals leaves 3 gunmen dead. Bodies were taken away by an armed group before police responded.
NUEVO LAREDO, TAMAULIPAS Military depoyment arrived by train, surprising local residents. No further details provided by government.
ARBOLEDAS DE CHIPITLÁN, MORELOS Man tortured, executed and body dumped near a hamburger business.
ZAMORA, MICHOACÁN Three men and a woman found beheaded in abandoned SUV.
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO Teen of 14 and another man gunned down, separate incidents.
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA: Man standing outside health clinic gunned down.
SANTA CATARINA, NUEVO LEON: Two municipal police officers attacked while on patrol. Both wounded, but survived.
ACAPULCO, GUERRERO Person executed, two vehicles burned, with a corpse later found in trunk of one vehicle.
REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS Military rescues 52 kidnapped victims from safe house. The nationalities are one Nicaraguan, five Salvadorans, 12 Guatemalans and 34 Hondurans.
CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA Man’s body found disenboweled, with his head nailed to a guard rail. Narco message left from cartel La Linea.
CULIACAN, SINALOA: Narco banners addressed to El Chapo left, with one hanging next to Home Depot and the other from a pedestrian bridge.
EL JOFRE, QUERETARO Two men found tortured, executed.
SAN FELIPE ATOTONILCO, OAXACA Municipal police officer killed during shootout, another injured, and one bad guy dead. Remaining gunmen escaped before state police could arrive.
HIDALGO Police captured 28 Zetas that had attacked Tula police station, killing an investigator, a secretary and a civilian filing a report. Seized were three machine guns, eleven long ‘sguns, a bazooka, eight AK-47, three AR-15’s, 1,527cartridges, 6 grenades, vehicles, among other things.
MICHOACAN Four young men found executed.
MORELOS Three associates of ‘El Barbie’ arrested.
SALTILLO, COAHUILA Gunmen attacked city hall and police station, using guns and grenades. Two vehicles were burned with molotov cocktails.
COYUCA DE CATALÁN, GUERRERO Military enroute to an operation were attacked by gunmen dressed in military uniforms. Military lieutenant was killed during the intense shootout.
CULIACAN, SINALOA Two men executed in supermarket parking lot.
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