Maps Reveal Cocaine Trafficking Routes Across the Americas. Published Jun 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM EDT. By . Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK.

The Albanian mafia has expanded its presence in Ecuador in recent years, drawn by key trafficking routes through the country, and it now controls much of the cocaine flow from South America to Europe.

South-Eastern Europe sea, air and land borders continue to be exploited to introduce cocaine into the European markets.

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

Several pills were also allegedly found by a state police K-9 during an investigation that started with the report of a ...

A brick of cocaine was found washed up on shore in the Florida Keys Wednesday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said. The ...