A really informative article. Much more information than I was able to excerpt. If you have an ad blocker I recommend reading the whole thing.
If I understand this right, these drugs originate in Venezuela and move East into Africa. What is being grown? Or, manufactured?
It’s news to me. I usually think of opium production in the Middle East with heroin moving westward. Meth labs are another problem.
Trivia : Venezuela’s Intel service and Iran were caught running a cyber/hack attack plot targeting US nuclear power plants several years ago when Obama and Kerry had their minds on making a deal with Iran.
A lot of the boats do the 24 km crossing to the Caribbean island chain, beginning with Aruba to the Dominican Republic, to Puerto Rico, to the Florida coast.