NCJ Number
126991
Date Published
1990
Length
90 pages
Annotation
This 1990 mid-year update on the implementation of the international narcotics control strategy reports on drug law enforcement activities in countries in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, and Africa.
Abstract
Overall, developments in international narcotics control since March 1990 show the price of coca leaf declining at the farmgate, while the price of cocaine has increased in some major U.S. markets, tending to limit demand. Purity levels of cocaine are down. The Andean strategy, which provides additional economic, law enforcement, and military assistance to Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru during the next 5 years, is being implemented. The United States and Mexico continue to cooperate on cocaine interdiction. The control of heroin internationally is not as promising as for cocaine. Overproduction of opium has kept prices down in the United States and Europe, and the heroin supply is abundant worldwide. An interagency working group, chaired by the U.S. State Department, completed the first phase of a study designed to formulate a U.S. Government worldwide heroin control strategy. Achievements in countering money laundering internationally are discussed in a separate section of the report.