To measure the environmental impact of cocaine trafficking, the team designed a model that maps routes and analyzes the production chain\u2014from cultivation to export.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, the study was presented at the 2025 Third Latin American Congress on Social Sciences and Government<\/a><\/strong>, organized by La Tr\u00edada at Universidad de los Andes, with a focus on violence and insecurity in Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Sandra Aguilar-G\u00f3mez<\/a><\/strong>, professor and researcher at Tec de Monterrey\u2019s School of Government<\/a><\/strong>, answering that question required breaking down the whole process<\/a>: from growing coca and producing cocaine to maritime, land, and air export routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t just want to find a correlation between crime and environmental degradation; we wanted to show that crime causes it. And to do that properly, we need to accurately map the distribution of this entire value chain,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n