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.
Cocaine going to Africa and Europe, heroin going from Africa to the Americas.
May be a fair amount of opium being grown in the Americas now, too.
More likely Colombia with transshipment through Venezuela.
It is likely the drugs are cocaine and fentanyl.
The routes bringing them through our southern border have been greatly shut down. So, the other routes are by the ocean. The drugs may be loaded into standard 40’ containers and loaded on ships going to the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.
I watched a YouTube video a few months ago about how the Italian Mafia in Naples and Calabria(the Ndrangheta) controls the port in the southern Italian mainland. The drugs are brought into the port in a container with other products coming from Central and South America. Products like bananas or other things. The Ndrangheta has people that work for them at the port in the Caribbean where the container is loaded. In certain containers their product is mixed in. Some containers are intercepted by the police. Some are not. A cost of doing business, so to speak.
These fast boats bring the product from the mainland to where it is eventually loaded in a container. That container might end up in Newark or Montreal or Naples or Savannah or Marseilles .