Global Cocaine Seizure Trend Report 2011 – A Deeper Insight
ROME (March 5, 2012) - For the first time in the history of the “war on drugs”, detailed daily data on cocaine seizures are available, although not definitive yet. Thanks to the investigative work of Narcoleaks, it has been possible to analyze in depth the trend of cocaine seizures worldwide throughout all 2011. Through these data we can better understand the different aspects of drug trafficking and, in particular, anticipate the emerging trends. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will provide aggregate data for the entire 2011 only in one year and a half from now. In the meantime, several phenomena will have changed their course.

The amount of cocaine seized in 2011 has outstripped the estimate of world cocaine production provided by the U.S. Department of State. Despite the opposing official viewpoint of the U.S., Colombia is still the world leader of cocaine production, and even the U.S. Coast Guard proved the White House’s figures wrong. Narcoleaks’ five questions on the embarrassing U.S. contradictions on narcotrafficking 


