The wicked problem of drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere

 After reading this article, I could understand how difficult it the countries to crack down on illegal drugs trafficking. Although the United States organize some official institutions such as TCOs to control illegal drugs trafficking, they could not have managed the security perfectly. This article shows how illegal drugs are imported into the United States. They include: Secreting contraband abroad containers or hidden within the expanses of huge commercial vessels; Using secret compartments on smaller freighters; Employing small, difficult-to-detect “go fast” vessels intended to avoid and then evade interdiction; Fielding run-of-the-mill pleasure craft and fishing vessels like traditional Mexican lanchas, as well as purpose built pangas intended to blend in with legitimate traffic; and Deploying highly capable self-propelled semisubmersible vessels that have become more sophisticated by the year. In this way, illegal drugs are imported to the United States, and then they are sold into the black market. One thing I thought when I read this article is that if it is so difficult for the United States, which is a well-established country, to crack down on one-way drugs, it is even easier to smuggle illegal drugs into developing countries and conflict zones. I feel we should be more concerned about the smuggling of drugs and weapons and take measures against them.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/15/the-wicked-problem-of-drug-trafficking-in-the-western-hemisphere/

Nanami Kanda