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Argentina Gets in on All That Meth Fun
October 15th, 2008 by Perry
In the search for new places to traffic manufactured Ephedrine, the active ingredient in methamphetamines, Mexican, Columbian and Peruvian cartels have moved operations to Argentina.
Argentina, like Mexico, is not a manufacturer of ephedrine. But, the country’s pharmaceutical sector is a major importer, buying mostly from China and India.
Crackdowns have had the unfortunate and inevitable side effect of raising the street value due to scarcity, which has increased the violence. Even more alarming, the article quotes that imports of ephedrine to Argentina recently began to soar – from 2.9 tons in 2004 to 19.1 tons in 2007, according to government figures.
