As supply control policies for illegal drugs achieve partial successes elsewhere, international drug markets are shifting production and transit to West Africa and the Sahel. Facilitated by limited law enforcement and border control, the drug trad...
▶Mabel González Bustelo is an international consultant, journalist and researcher. In 2014, she published Narcotráfico y crimen organizado: ¿Hay alternativas?, a comprehensive report on attempts of national and international policies to curtail the global drug trade through predominantly militarized responses.