In Colombia, the volume of cocaine production grew to a record level, writes Bloomberg. A few kilometers from the city of La Dorada (in the southwest of the country), cattle-breeding ranch and fish farms in the area are inferior to the “endless fields of Koki”. To get to this territory, it is necessary to obtain permission from the drug cartel “Command -de La Fronter”.
The Agency notes that if fans of the Netflix series “drugs” had the impression that the era of Cartel Pablo Escobar in the 1980-1990s was the heyday of cocaine trade, then in fact there is a much larger boom. “We live in the golden age of cocaine. Cocaine reaches the corners of the planet that have never seen it before, because there are so many drugs,” the author of the book “Kili: inside the most deadly cocaine cartels, Toby Mues, which covers Colombian trade for more than two decades drugs.
The basis of this paper is a significant increase in the sown area, as well as an increase in performance on cocaine farms. In addition, drug cartels are becoming more skillful in drug concealment and moving them in large quantities around the world. According to the UN Drug and Crime Office, illegal industry now produces about 2 thousand tons of cocaine per year, which almost twice the volume produced ten years ago. Satellite photos show that last year the Square of the Columbian lands sown by Coca grew to a record 200 thousand hectares, which is five times more than at the time of the end of the Escobar era in 1993.
In addition to traditional markets, such as the United States, cocaine sales are growing in Europe, where, according to the EU, the number of seized parties has grown three times in just five years. “Europe is flooded with cocaine. The proposal is simply unheard of,” said Laurent Laniel, chief scientific analyst of the European Drug Monitoring and drug addiction center.