A new collaboration pact has been created between Mexican cartels and European criminal groups to bring shipments of methamphetamine and cocaine produced in Latin America to European Union (EU) territory.
Alliances have also been established to produce illicit substances such as methamphetamine crystals and cocaine in salt form (cocaine hydrochloride) on European soil. According to a study, Mexican laboratories operating in the EU are using "unique production methods and are involved in particular stages of methamphetamine manufacturing." It also highlights that the cartels are "recycling and reducing chemical waste" of the substances with which they produce drugs . . .
