limited government eradication program;
transshipment point for opiates via Iran, Central Asia, and Russia
to Western Europe

Bahamas, The:
transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound
for US and Europe; banking industry vulnerable to money laundering

Bangladesh:
transit country for illegal drugs produced in
neighboring countries

Barbados:
one of many Caribbean transshipment points for narcotics
bound for Europe and the US

Belarus:
limited cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis, mostly for
the domestic market; transshipment point for illicit drugs to and
via Russia, and to the Baltics and Western Europe

Belgium:
growing producer of synthetic drugs; transit point for
US-bound ecstasy; source of precursor chemicals for South American
cocaine processors; transshipment point for cocaine, heroin,
hashish, and marijuana entering Western Europe

Belize:
minor transshipment point for cocaine; small-scale illicit
producer of cannabis for the international drug trade; minor
money-laundering center

Benin:
transshipment point for narcotics associated with Nigerian
trafficking organizations and most commonly destined for Western
Europe and the US

Bolivia:
world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Colombia
and Peru, a distant second) with an estimated 14,600 hectares under
cultivation in 2000, a 33% decrease in overall cultivation of coca
from 1999 levels; intermediate coca products and cocaine exported to
or through Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to the US and
other international drug markets; eradication and alternative crop
programs have slashed illicit coca cultivation during the BANZER
administration beginning in 1997

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
minor transit point for marijuana and opiate
trafficking routes to Western Europe

Brazil:
limited illicit producer of cannabis, minor coca cultivation
in the Amazon region, mostly used for domestic consumption;
government has a large-scale eradication program to control
cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian,
and Peruvian cocaine headed for the US and Europe; also used by
traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments
between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and
weapons smuggling; important market for Bolivian, Peruvian, and
Colombian cocaine

British Virgin Islands:
transshipment point for Sout