Comments on: Europe-LatAm Cooperation – A Fresh Approach to an Old Problem? http://latamthought.org/2009/05/05/europe-latam-cooperation-a-fresh-approach-to-an-old-problem/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:49:18 -0700 hourly 1 By: Rachel http://latamthought.org/2009/05/05/europe-latam-cooperation-a-fresh-approach-to-an-old-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4070 Rachel Tue, 12 May 2009 02:53:46 +0000 http://latamthought.org/2009/05/05/europe-latam-cooperation-a-fresh-approach-to-an-old-problem/#comment-4070 I definitely agree that the EU has an excellent opportunity to forge ties with Latin America, especially when it comes to tackling the drug trade. I'd like to add Brazil as another key country in the drug war; it has now become a major middleman country and shipment point for cocaine coming from Colombia and Bolivia en route to Europe. Smugglers have taken advantage of crossing the border in the Amazon, which has a minimal police presence, as well as using river routes in the Amazon. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,280076,00.html?sPage=fnc/world/americas http://www.unodc.org/pdf/brazil/Cocaine%20traffickers%20develop%20new%20routes%20from%20Brazil.pdf I definitely agree that the EU has an excellent opportunity to forge ties with Latin America, especially when it comes to tackling the drug trade. I’d like to add Brazil as another key country in the drug war; it has now become a major middleman country and shipment point for cocaine coming from Colombia and Bolivia en route to Europe. Smugglers have taken advantage of crossing the border in the Amazon, which has a minimal police presence, as well as using river routes in the Amazon.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,280076,00.html?sPage=fnc/world/americas

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/brazil/Cocaine%20traffickers%20develop%20new%20routes%20from%20Brazil.pdf

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