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Sampó C, Troncoso V. Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Trends Organ Crime. 2022;1-23doi: 10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y.
Sampó, C., & Troncoso, V. (2022). Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Trends in organized crime, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y
Sampó, Carolina, and Troncoso, Valeska. "Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay." Trends in organized crime vol. (2022): 1-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y
Sampó C, Troncoso V. Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Trends Organ Crime. 2022 Jan 04;1-23. doi: 10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y. Epub 2022 Jan 04. PMID: 35002209; PMCID: PMC8723814.
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Trends Organ Crime. 2022 Jan 04;1-23. doi: 10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y. Epub 2022 Jan 04.

Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

Trends in organized crime

Carolina Sampó, Valeska Troncoso

Affiliations

  1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), International Relations Institute (IRI) University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, Calle 48 582, 5th floor, B1900, La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires Argentina.
  2. University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  3. Center for Studies on Transnational Organized Crime, International Relations Institute (IRI), University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina.

PMID: 35002209 PMCID: PMC8723814 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-021-09441-y

Abstract

This article presents the results of an exploratory study aimed to analyze the contexts in which the use of Non-Traditional ports of cocaine departure and counter-intuitive routes is prioritized, based on the experience of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Moreover, we show that criminal organizations prioritize the Ports of Buenos Aires, San Antonio and Montevideo, and the counter-intuitive routes that lead to them, because they are spaces that generate incentives linked to the porosity of borders, the lack of control at the ports, and the possibility of exploiting the country's lack of reputation for drug exportation to re-export cocaine undetected. This study constitutes a precedent for future research on the role of South American Southern Cone ports in cocaine trafficking. We can identify at least four emerging lines of research: 1. Cocaine trafficking from landlocked countries; 2. The role of the waterway Paraná-Paraguay; 3. The link between Non-Traditional ports of cocaine departure and new markets; and 4. Other Non-Traditional Ports of cocaine departure, which are not containerized.

© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021.

Keywords: Argentina; Chile; Cocaine; Drug trafficking; Ports; Routes; Uruguay

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