Janaina Maldonado Guerra da Cunha

The GIGA and the EULAC Foundation co-organised, with the support of the City of Hamburg, the two-day workshop ‘Port Cities Fighting Transatlantic Drug Trafficking’ in early April 2025. This policy brief present the core themes and insights emerging from the workshop, highlighting key takeaways.

The GIGA and the EULAC Foundation co-organised, with the support of the City of Hamburg, the two-day workshop ‘Port Cities Fighting Transatlantic Drug Trafficking’ in early April 2025. This policy brief present the core themes and insights emerging from the workshop, highlighting key takeaways.

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Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Janaina Maldonado Guerra da Cunha (Organisator:in), Dr. Jonas von Hoffmann (Organisator:in), Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Organisator:in)

As a side-event to the 2025 EU-CELAC summit in Colombia, this event brings together European and Latin American academics and stakeholders to discuss the challenges of drug policy and organised crime, which affect both continents.

Experts Workshop Port Cities Fighting Transatlantic Drug Trafficking, Hamburg International Maritime Museum, Hamburg Organisation: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), EU-Lateinamerika-Karibik-Stiftung Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach (Organisator:in), Julia Kramer (Organisator:in), Dr. Jonas von Hoffmann (Organisator:in), Janaina Maldonado Guerra da Cunha (Organisator:in), PD Dr. Dr. Ariel Macaspac Hernandez (Organisator:in), Eduardo Valencia (Organisator:in)

Experts from diverse fields gather to explore the challenges of illicit drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe and beyond. Focusing on ports as key hubs, they examine underlying dynamics and emerging trends, available data and common misconceptions, community impacts and civil society’s role.