and you're up to date, but just stick around up. next we have a look at how your craving for cocaine has major global hotspot for the drug. and remember, if you need more news on the go, you can always check on our website at c, w dot com. i'm here until through and thank you very much for joining us. the my name is the calls back said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. as soon about saying it's loud. you guys wouldn't be nosy, bay like get everyone talking to me. check out the award winning called call. don't hold back to ecuador government's done to tv channel during a live 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 lots in america and europe. columbia has broken its own record for cultivating co cut the main ingredients. okay. huge increases in the amount of cocaine entering the continent. 3 poults in belgium and the netherlands. what's happening to us in terms of cocaine is quite historical. this really is a big, a new feature that is on sort of cocaine, to your, of the testing though. it's just the most popular hard drive in europe. this is some, actually some very rich the some of this, it's just devastating consequences. that's how exactly has europe come and you'll hotspots ok the left side of it in a city known for its collapsing and it struck consumption. cocaine is high from the

consumer, says, the highly 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 past graham and co taxis are delivering to cocaine. right? to the doorstep. reliable data about the use of cocaine is have to come by after all, it is and at least a top dropped. sony is a deal. it's no consumers want to brag about numbers, but it's in european screen and sewers where authorities. reason about cocaine consumption, local ken rested, use our phones in the cities recommended. you scan the waste, which is for drugs. the bigger just circles, the more cocaine was detected there, and breasted use of almost shrivelled since 2015. there are several reasons for the

rise of continues 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. i'm back 1st of all, it's about big money. marketing, cocaine to europe, is chris kate. but for organized crime, it's totally worth it. as lucrative change is the moving off of the co caves from latin america to year. this is where the big money is. this is where every party wants to get some homes. jeremy mcdonough, tex of pink time researching, organized crime, and the america has faced in mid in columbia, aquino, criminal cocaine in columbia south for 2002 s dollars. that's what it moves abroad . it's worth weigh more than that. the average price of a t,

the co came in the united states is between, depending on the point of entry between $16.00 and $25000.00, where it's not saying, you know, is, was at least even as high as mode $40000.00 in your there is the increase cost and simply blue thinking across the united states is much easier to reach. so this means a lot of people can and money by smartlight cocaine to europe. we will get to this part of the story later. what would you need to know now? inside europe is a growing up and coming market for cocaine. and it is catching up with the stock 19 markets in north america, especially the us, europe is so some are charge to subtract traffic hers because penalties for drug offenses are less if you then into us,

for example. and controls have not been as tough. so with local can slot in europe, thomas, this is changing, and authorities have celebrated record bus. in the past years, the largest single seizure in europe was in hamburg, germany in 2021. 16 tons of cocaine for us up to $3500000000.00. that we have on for thousands biggest port customs here seized a 116 tons of cocaine and towed to 2023. also our records. but researchers say more bus also mean more traffic getting the so seizing more trucks. it's not necessarily a reason to tell i started really a big concern that you know, this is, this is crazy. something big is happening here. so on and yet it's following the growing influx of cocaine to europe or in the do you direct extensions in just

a portugal all the logistics of the trade, the, the, the role material for the trade, a cocaine itself. everything has been scaled up and directed to europe. so let's travel across the atlantic to reco kind is coming from latin america. coca plants, a mainly drone in columbia period. and the lady at the glance drive best and mountain santiago, area and 6 tract just from the lease that has long been used best. 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 are fark agreed to lay down up to 50 years for value. the fox initial goal was to replace,

to columbia and democratic governments within the ground and coming. that's true. but the reason we're 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 co which means they were essentially a one stop shop for cocaine with foreign government, it was a freefall determined the landscape fragments is into a more competitive markets. while gags being involved is one of the reasons why i'm all kind of planted in havasu in columbia. and we'll get all

so mean more violence and that's in america. as many smaller groups now fide full control over the protection, say latin america has, i think, is about 80 percent of the world population. and it has moving 13 percent of the top of science. this is a small ponds, jude to the drug trade research. the one country in particular has been drag, need deep into the dodge drug game. gotta look at my so they said they could be assessing the phone names, let it pass. i come back these 103030. okay. so by the board and what the product. okay. is would be settled for the like a $4.00, but of us getting the knowledge. this is carla of us. a security expert who has been following the situation in her country very closely. or is that the benefits that are they ok go go gain. i remember crying has spreads across the

country in the past years, violence corruption, homicides. in 2023 for presidential candidate was assessing the agent who was complaining against organized crime. so what this, the small south american country has to do with the growing influx of cocaine to your, to explain, we have to go to ecuador speakers topper quite i q, and we must dive deep into another business. the ecuador is the world's largest exposure, but non us, the food is shipped from quite a key to smaller posts to europe in the world. and these boxes are apparently the perfect place to hide and smoke. oh, okay. that's why summit up the food coming from a quite or not go by non us graphic or she was bad. she's in food experts because they need to go through customs very quickly. hold that roger. the account on the products not to stand out in the vast volumes of global change. tens of millions of

containers arriving in europe every year and less than 10 percent of them contain a trade has changed. again, this has given the books to the trade credit book because the traffic is have been able to power sites. this digital bit trade between the 2 continents to put their merchandise in it and retrieve it when they arrive here. but as far as use a stepping of controls, containers from some countries are more likely to get checked. the country coming from colombia on routine, the ritz, the principal transit nations like kind of mom and quit all the whole set containers routine, the red flags from some of the brazilian pools. so smock, they're still looking for new points of departure, listing way more drugs. now,

go to the caravans. we're seeing move further through central america space like 1st because we're just seeing increased bivens pushing low further down to argentina border. why even the cheap and then to can cross could advance and finally reach us to work in the past space plus the main arrival point because it's curse the traffic or is increasing the moving to europe spigot supports in the north. brought it down in the netherlands on scrub in belgium and comfortable in germany. because this is where most containers go from. these have criminals distributed cocaine all over europe. smart curse 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 one battle like a go guy, not he, he died in the end of a left, but it is a $40000.00 contain, is a most be so spice of the liquefied drac collision 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 started with the the, the dutch now the subs and the out the here day on the coffee, terse but of the set to suffer the consequences. because clark relates to silence, the smell spread, and on for the belgian harbour city. an 11 year old girl died in a truck related shooting in 2023. that's total is peter decrease was killed and i'm

so diamond 2021 believes to be motivated by his investigations into cocaine trafficking. a before the police found a torture chamber hidden in a shipping container, an under world prison built by a drug getting connected to violence comes to another lights. 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 transportation for cocaine, a distant for other markets, the middle east in asia. remember the whole say process we mentioned before. well, they arise the further the traffic are sca actually the crumb of cocaine sales. for example, for $56000.00 in pocket stock,

or $68000.00 and cuts are showing sensors 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 legalize agent taking the money out of the criminal hands and putting it to the legal that's of course, 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 use as in europe and beyond located the policy. so let me know where to stay to complete them and that response, how did you sign a pin number?

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