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Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report
    #28595081 - 12/23/23 09:31 AM (1 month, 4 days ago)

Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report
by Valentín DÌAZ; December 22, 2023 news.yahoo.com

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The global cocaine market is changing.

Colombia is still the biggest producer of the drug, but other actors are taking an ever bigger role in manufacturing and distributing it, according to a report based on thousands of Colombian prosecutor's files leaked by hackers.

A group of around a hundred journalists has deciphered some seven million emails and 38,000 files leaked by the Guacamaya hacktivist group which in 2022 broke into the computer systems of security agencies and armies from Mexico, Chile, Peru, Salvador and Colombia.

The so-called "Narcofiles" report outlines the networks of cocaine production and trafficking around the world.

"The market is changing," Nathan Jaccard, Latin America editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of investigative journalists which accessed the files, told AFP.

Colombia cultivated a record 230,000 hectares of coca leaf in 2022, and produced 1,738 tonnes of cocaine, according to the United Nations.

However, the country's cocaine trade has been hard hit by falling coca leaf prices and the emergence of new, synthetic drugs such as fentanyl.

The "Narcofiles" report shows that Mexican, Albanian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Israeli groups are starting to gain power in the global drug trade.

"Colombia no longer plays a leading role in the international drug trafficking chain," explains Elizabeth Dickinson, an analyst at Crisis Group.

A leaked memorandum between Colombia and Israel describes a "significant increase" in crimes committed in the South American country by Israelis attracted by sex tourism and linked, according to local authorities, to cocaine trafficking.

- Bananas and submarines -

The "Narcofiles" also revealed the growing role of the banana industry in the export of cocaine, and an increase in trafficking along routes such as the Amazon River, from which more and more submarines loaded with cocaine head to the Atlantic.

According to the European Commission, 70 percent of drug seizures in Europe take place at ports. Traffickers use banana shipments to hide their goods, as fresh produce passes customs checks more quickly.

Another new hotspot in the cocaine market is the triple border point where Peru, Colombia and Brazil meet in the Amazon.

This region was "relatively calm 15 years ago", said Jaccard.

The report also reveals that coca leaf plantations have multiplied in Central America and Mexico, while coca paste is increasingly being processed in laboratories in Europe.

"Drug traffickers are deciding to move closer to the markets" to reduce costs and risks, while maximizing profits, Jaccard explained.

Some of the changes mean that Colombian cartels and their kingpins, the likes of Pablo Escobar, no longer "run the show," said Dickinson.

Although large criminal structures such as the Clan del Golfo, the world's leading producer of cocaine, continue to operate in the country, "we are witnessing a process of atomization of groups" which reduces their power, said Jaccard.




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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: cycline]
    #28595090 - 12/23/23 09:40 AM (1 month, 4 days ago)

That will be the day when the world ban on coca falls. More so the grasp of the coca leaf is dropped from the hands of Coca-Cola.


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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: WhoManBeing]
    #28595105 - 12/23/23 09:50 AM (1 month, 4 days ago)

Im adding a link to the original NarcoFiles:
https://www.occrp.org/en/narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order/


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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: cycline] * 1
    #28595912 - 12/23/23 11:49 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

Meth pretty much took over here. I haven't seen an old timey crack head in years. There was also fent laced going coke killing people here. The product needs a price drop and more responsible sellers, it could make a comeback though. Wonder how much it costs to transport stuff by submarine, or what kind of range they have.


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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: viraldrome]
    #28596454 - 12/24/23 10:25 AM (1 month, 3 days ago)

I don't know where you live but the data says crack is making a comeback, becoming pervasive in rural areas rather than urban like crack epidemic of the 80s.

I live in rural Georgia now, not too far from Atlanta, which is a major cocaine hub. When I lived in Atlanta, high quality soft was everywhere. But here, in my minority majority neighborhood, you can find hard very easily. Walk around within a mile of any housing authority location and somebody will offer it to you.


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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: Holybullshit]
    #28596880 - 12/24/23 05:58 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

:waitthatsbad:

Couldn't help but think of the cocaine sub cruising up the open air sewer canals, from the New River to the Salton.


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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: durian_2008]
    #28600817 - 12/28/23 11:49 AM (30 days, 11 hours ago)

It's crazy to me how there used to be a day cocaine was legal and just could be obtained from the pharmacy.  No cartels.  No destabilized nation states.


Every day I just wonder how much further the American government can fall until it is taught about in the history books like we learn about the Nazi's today.


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Re: Cocaine market sees new players, bananas and Amazon submarines: report [Re: Typerwritermonky] * 1
    #28600848 - 12/28/23 12:20 PM (30 days, 10 hours ago)

This article feels a little behind the times, which I guess is how reporting based on law enforcement works.

Coca production for cocaine shifted to the Amazon basin decades ago. Colombia kept some control just because they had the refining capacity. But "pasta basica"- raw cocaine paste with a lot of the solvents still present- has been the crack of the Peruvian Amazon for a while now. They dip cigarettes in it. Makes sense that after enough time growing coca and extracting the raw paste in the lowland jungles, they'd figure out refining and shipping too. Getting stuff out of an Amazon river port and across the ocean to Europe- or Europe via Africa- is probably much less of an overall headache than running the US DEA gauntlet at this point. Not to mention dealing with the Mexican and Colombian cartels. Production already shifted to the jungle because they can cultivate, extract, and move product in areas that are virtually impossible to police. Everything happens by foot and boat. The transportation and enforcement infrastructure the authorities have on the eastern slope of the Andes simply doesn't exist.


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