Mexico’s Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Zetas and Beltran Leyva drug cartels are the top buyers and traffickers of cocaine produced by criminal groups in Colombia, including current and former leftist rebels, according to a high-ranking Colombian security official.
The country at the northern tip of South America is one of the world’s top producers of cocaine, largely consumed by customers in the United States and Europe.
Production provides key income to armed groups and fuels Colombia’s five-decade-long internal conflict, which has killed more than 260,000 people.
