The World Wide Threat Assessment (WTA) outlines several global and regional threats. Pick one. With an eye toward the future, analyze in detail why you feel it is an important threat. What is being done about it and what do you believe should be done in the future to mitigate the threat? Go beyond the WTA in your research to find experts in the field you can cite to bolster your analysis and arguments.
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Illicit drug trafficking by TCOs, particularly synthetic drugs, endangers the health and safety of millions of U.S.
citizens and imposes as much as one trillion dollars in direct and indirect economic losses. The threat from illicit
drugs is at historic levels, with more than 100,000 American drug-overdose deaths for the first time annually,
driven mainly by a robust supply of synthetic opioids from Mexican TCOs.
Mexican TCOs are the dominant producers and suppliers of illicit drugs for the U.S. market. They
produce fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana in Mexico, and obtain cocaine from South
America to smuggle into the United States. Mexican TCOs probably will seek to continue expanding
their capacity to produce finished fentanyl.
Since 2019, Mexican TCOs have shifted from importing finished fentanyl from China to synthesizing
fentanyl from precursor chemicals, primarily also from China, partly because of China’s fentanyl class
controls. Mexican TCOs are able to circumvent international controls on precursor chemicals by
changing analogues and methodologies for synthetizing and producing synthetics.
Turf battles among Mexican TCOs vying for drug routes and territory have resulted in steady, high
homicide rates since 2018 that are four times the rate of homicides in the United States. In parts of
Mexico, TCOs use billions of dollars of drug proceeds to intimidate politicians and influence elections,
as well as recruit and arm fighters capable of directly confronting government security forces.
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