Posted on 09/13/2023 5:56:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Colombian cocaine output surged to a record last year, with the drug flooding into new markets and fueling violence across the planet.
Satellite photos show the amount of land planted with coca, the raw material for making the drug, rose to 230,000 hectares (570,000 acres), in 2022, up 13% from the previous year.
That’s enough to produce 1,700 tons of refined cocaine, the most ever, according to a report published Monday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
The supply glut has led to rising purity in Europe and the US, and a surge in seizures everywhere from Africa, to Asia to Eastern Europe. And it has turned once-peaceful Ecuador into one of the most violent countries in the world, as cartels fight for control of ports and routes.
Gustavo Petro took power as Colombian president last August, saying that the decades-old war on drugs pursued by Washington and Bogota has failed, and promising a new approach. His government is currently seeking talks with the nation’s main drug-trafficking groups, in the hope of ending six decades of civil conflict though peace accords.
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While democrats run the White House , surprise , Not
It’s hard to tell where the drug cartels end and government agencies begin these days.
At least there’s some good news…
You load 1,700 tons and what do you get?
Foggy Bottom, Langley, Mena, etc.
Hunter Biden passing out on your doorstep..............
They voted in a leftist and Colombia is once again becoming a narco state.
if they found 1700 tons of coke in the Whitehouse, would they still be unable to find out who left it there?
Jo Jo the Pedophile Clown’s open borders program is doing a lot for the drug cartels and the drug addicts infesting this new third world country.
It’s what keeps blue states and cities going without it they would fade to normal and that’s not good for the agenda.
Always keep the tool box full.
China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore don’t have drug problems.
I wonder why?............... 😉
Indeed at the end of the day they count the boxes of fingers and hands.
Or, as Hunter sees it, weekend stash.
Mix a healthy dollop of fentanyl into each captured shipment and send it on its way. That will remove more undesirables from the population.
“It’s hard to tell where the drug cartels end and government agencies begin these days.”
I did some work in Columbia 35 years ago. It was that way then. Everyone was corrupt, it was just a matter of who a person was paid by.
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