Environmental Crisis: 5 Key Points for Understanding Drug Cartel Involvement

Cartels not only produce and traffic drugs: they deforest, pollute, exploit natural resources and displace communities to sustain their illicit operations Rubi Martinez Drug cartels not only sow violence. In silence, they are also leaving a deep scar on the land. Every time a clandestine laboratory settles deep in the mountains or a forest is cut down to plant illicit crops, the environment becomes another collateral victim of organized crime. T…