Media Report: Cocaine-Fueled Narco Laundering Is Accelerating Deforestation, UN Warns

Bloomberg Drug trafficking proceeds increasingly are getting laundered into illegal logging, ranching and gold mining in the Amazon in a development that is accelerating deforestation of the rain forest, according to a United Nations report. Drug trafficking groups in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia are diversifying into these environmental crimes, and are leveraging their existing supply chains […]

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