Questions

1. What strategies are being followed by the main narco-trafficking organisations (NTOs)? What are the (two largest) NTOs’ objectives?

2. Who are their key stakeholders and what are their expectations? Which diversification strategies applied at which stages of the NTOs’ life cycles/evolution?

3. What strategic options are available to NTOs (at the time of the case study)? How is the current external situation changing?

4. How might these strategic options be evaluated?

5. What strategic options are open to the government? And which strategic choices should the President make?