the 1st time the code has accepted, sucks. that's it for me and it is. teams are up to date of next we have a report on the illegal drug trade and how europe became the wells, new cocaine hospitals, films. i've got the office in building the my name is the calls back. said loud. thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud. next, would it be nosy bay? like good, everyone to king. you're healthy award winning called, called the called back to ecuador. government's done to tv channel during your life, broadcast in the netherlands. police describe it,

a torture chamber and a shipping container. what connects these incidents? it's cocaine and drug trafficking between that's in america and europe. columbia has broken its own record for cultivating to cut the main ingredients. okay. huge increases in the amount of copay and entering the continent through ports in belgium and the netherlands. what's happening to us in terms of cocaine is quite historical. this really is a big a new fee that is on sort of cocaine to your, of assessing. no, it's just the most popular hodge like in europe, this is actually some very rich. the others just devastating consequences. that's how exactly has europe coming. you hotspots. ok. the

that sat and been in a city known for its collapsing and it struck consumption. cocaine, as high from the concealment stays behind the addictive track, pushes through to the highest ties or the lowest, those the drug has never been easier to get in berlin. like in many other cities, you can order it. yeah. messenger apps. people who are willing to pay around 50 years, pos graham, and co taxis are delivering to cocaine, right? to the doorstep. reliable data about the use of cocaine is have to come. by octo it is at least a top draft. so new the dealers know consumers once a bracket bug numbers, but it's in your opinion screen and sewer authority is read about cocaine consumption. local ken rested, use our phones in the cities regularly scan, the waste switches for drugs. the bigger to circles,

the more cocaine was detected there, and breasted use of almost shrivelled since 2015. there are several reasons for the rise of cocaine use in europe. but one thing is clear, more fitness available than ever before. so why is cooks and flooding into europe just now? to understand it, we will travel from europe to less than america. and back 1st of all, it's about the big money, smart gate and cocaine to europe, this course key. but for organized crime, it's totally worth it. was lucrative change is the moving off of the co caves from latin america to your this is where the big money is. this is where every party wants to get some farms. jeremy mcdonough, texas pink, tanked researching, organized crime, and the america has faced the mid in columbia, aquino crime of cocaine and columbia sells for 2002 s dollars worse. but when it

moves abroad, it's worse way more than that. the average price of a kito a co came in the united states is between depending on point event $3.00, between $16.00 and $25000.00. where is that same key, though, is, was perhaps at least even as high as mode $40000.00 in your there is the increased cost and simply losing it across the united states is much easier to reach. so this means a lot of people can earn money by smartlight cocaine to europe. we will get to this part of the story of it later. what would you need to know now? is that europe is a growing up and coming market for cocaine. and it is catching up with the stock aging markets in north america, especially the us, europe. and so some are truck to for truck traffic hers because penalties for drug

offenses are less if you then in the u. s. for example. and controls have not been as tough. so with milk and flooding. europe, thomas, this is changing. and authorities such celebrated record boss. in the past years. the largest single seizure in europe was inhabited, gemini, in 2021. 16 tons of cocaine. russ, up to $3500000000.00. and then we have on foot belgians biggest port. customs here sees the $116.00 tons of cocaine in total. 2023. also, our records for 3 searches, se mode plus also mean more traffic getting the so seizing more drugs is not necessarily a reason to celebrate. i started really a big concern that, you know, this is, this is crazy. something big is happening here. so on. yeah,

this is following the growing influx of cocaine to europe in the u. direct extensions in just the portugal. all the logistics of the trade, the, the, the role material for the trade of cocaine itself. everything has been scaled up and directed to europe. so let's travel across the atlantic to where i cocaine is coming from latin america. coca plans, amazing grown in columbia period. and the lady at the glanced rice best and mountain santiago area cocaine and 6 tract, just from the lease that has long been used as i must implants. and such an america . columbia has traditionally been the biggest producer and it was here for a special piece deal, shook up the cocaine markets in 2016. the revolutionary forces of columbia or fark,

agreed to lay down after 50 years for value. besides, the initial goal was to replace to columbia in democratic government with the ground income and it's true. but the reason we had talking about them is, okay, they got involved in the business to fund their activities. the, the $4.00 control them would you like to do anything up to 70 percent of the coca feels coca page production and coal, which means they were essentially a one stop shop for cocaine with foreign government, it was a freefall, determine the landscape preferences into a more competitive market. ma gaggs being involved is one of the reasons why i'm all kind of planted and have a sits in columbia. a memo gangs also mean more violence

and less in america. as many smaller groups now fide full control over the protection st. last in america has, i think is about 80 percent of the world population. and it has movers, 13 percent of the top of science. this is a no small ponds due to the drug trade. recently, one country in particular has been drag, need into to do to drop game you gotta look at my so they said they could be assessing the cone, maybe let it pass on, but these 103030. okay, so compiler for him. but the product, okay, is would be settled for the like a $4.00, but of course getting the knowledge. this is carla. oh that is a security expert who has been following the situation in her country very closely that the both both 30. they ok, go back again. i remember crying spreads across the country in the past years,

violence corruption, homicides. in 2023 for presidential candidate was assessing the agent who was complaining against openness crime. so what this, the small south american country has to do with a growing influx of cocaine to europe. to explain, we have to go to ecuador, speak as topper quite i. q. and we must dive deep into another business. the ecuador is the world's largest exposure. for non us, the food is shipped from quite a key to smaller procedure up in the world. and these boxes are apparently the perfect place to hide and smuggle. okay. that's why summit up the food coming from a quite or not go by non us graphic or she was about cheese and food experts because they need to go through customs very quickly. well that raj, the account on the products not to stand which in the vast volumes of global trades,

tens of millions of containers arriving in europe every year and less than 10 percent of them contain the trade has changed again, this has given the folks to the trade credit both because the traffic is have been able to power sites this digital bit trade between the 2 continents. to put that much noise in it and retrieve it when they arrive here. sorry, to use a stepping of controls. containers from some countries are more likely to get checked. the country is coming from colombia on routine, the ritz the principal transit nations, like kind of mom and it quit all the whole set containers routine, the red flags from some of the brazilian pools. so smart carriers are looking for

new points of departure. we're seeing way more drugs now go to the caravans. we're seeing them move further through central america space like 1st week of which is seen increased 5 and we're seeing go further down to argentina border. why even a cheap and then 6. okay. press could advance. and finally reach us through the process space plus the main arrival point because it's curse the traffic or is increasing the moving to europe, stick as ports in the north rocks of time. and another minutes. i'm sort of in belgium and comfortable in germany, because this is where most containers from these have criminals distributed cocaine all over europe matters also got more crated containers often smuggled into the quick school in wine,

so spirit. so the liquidity batch wings, which even sprayed on clothing like jeans and from battle like a go guy, not he, he died in the end of a left, but it is, of course he does the contain is a most be so spice of it tended to liquefied drac pleasure has to be re crystallized into cocaine. this is why the authorities are discovering a growing number of cocaine, of our choice in europe. and this also means that europe, him off yars, applying a more important role in the field, or can business starts with, with the the, the dutch. now, the subs in the out here day on the coffee, terse, but at the as have to suffer the consequences. because struck relates to silence and smell, spread an ad for the belgian harbor city. an 11 year old girl died in the truck

related shooting in 2023. that's total is peter decrease was killed, and i'm so diamond 2021 police to be motivated by his investigations into cocaine trafficking. a before the police found a torture chamber hidden in a shipping container. an underworld prison built by a drunken and entrance of violence comes to another blights. it does seem that corruption is increasing in europe, or at least we are seeing corruption where before we didn't see it, the drug trade, wherever, within a time to actually it's corruption environment. and finally, you're just not the end of the cocaine trail. i think we can now say that europe is a transit place for cocaine destined for other markets. i mean the east in asia. remember the whole say process we mentioned before. well, they arise the further the traffic or sca sheet of crime of cocaine sales,

for example, for $56000.00 and pockets done or $68000.00 and got our strong incentives for criminals to go further. cocaine is a multi $1000000000.00 criminal industry. and it seems to be getting out of control . so what could be done about it? everyone talks about the, the licensed agent taking the money out of the criminal hands and putting it into the legal costs politically unacceptable. so that's not very much point talking about this is step csr t. so trying to get have the criminals. cocaine trade is a network effect. so also we need to to, to work more with authorities in, in the that's in american police customs law enforcement side. but not only also the demand side, the policy side, because finally it's also about the uses in europe and beyond. located the

policy. so i don't know where to said conflict. i'm in deborah on saturday, saturday, phenomena. oh i know but, but yeah, we're not a man as long as people are gray. so next time that would always be somebody willing to risk everything to get a share of the big money. the name, one thing that is closer to our existence, you can take a moment to think of vianza. hello and welcome. i'm so they've got the body and you are watching equal india. how many a few talked of oceans as the answer to my question? not many, i'm sure, even though 71 percent of our planet is just water and the majority of this is an odd oceans. so let's dive into this today and try.