Presence of Illegal Activities

Presence of Illegal Activities · 7.1 Cultivation and Production of Illegal Substances

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1617.1 Cultivation and Production of Illegal Substances

Presence of Illegal Crops

Meets

Meets the criterion.

Mexico records recent presence of illicit opium-poppy, cannabis, and coca-leaf crops. The evidence includes federal detection and eradication operations, together with verified findings across several states.

Available data mainly concern detected and destroyed crop sites rather than a consolidated national estimate of the total cultivated area. This limits measurement of scale but does not create uncertainty regarding the material existence of the phenomenon.

Sources (6): the documents that support the traffic light
  1. Gobierno de México. (2025). Primer Informe de Gobierno 2024–2025: Seguridad nacional, defensa y soberanía (Report)
  2. Gobierno del Estado de Guerrero. (2025, 7 de abril). Resultado de las acciones emprendidas de la Mesa de Coordinación para la Construcción de la Paz: se avanza en la erradicación de enervantes en Guerrero (Report)
  3. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. (2024). Censo Nacional de Seguridad Pública Federal 2024: plantíos ilícitos destruidos y superficie erradicada por la Guardia Nacional durante 2023 (Report)
  4. Secretaría de Marina. (2023, 27 de febrero). La SEMAR informa la localización y erradicación de 18 laboratorios clandestinos y 60 plantíos de amapola y marihuana, en Sinaloa y Michoacán (Regulation or programme)
  5. Secretaría de Marina. (2023, 27 de febrero). La SEMAR informa la localización y erradicación de 18 laboratorios clandestinos y 60 plantíos de amapola y marihuana, en Sinaloa y Michoacán (Regulation or programme)
  6. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (s. f.). Drugs Monitoring Platform: Cultivation and production (Regulation or programme)

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Traffic light
Meetscoded on 15-09-2026 · Complete / validated
International support
No
Indicator score
1.00 out of a possible 1.25
Weight in the index
0.48 %
What it means
The criterion is met with evidence of implementation. Rules.
In the dimension
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