European cocaine busts are reaching record heights
REUTERS/Cathrin Mueller German, Belgian and Dutch police seized 23 tons of cocaine in late February, the largest haul of the drug in the EU ever. Those busts are the latest in a quickly escalating series of seizures, and they point to emerging smuggling routes in Latin America. While the seizure of 23 tons of cocaine by German, Belgian and Dutch police — the largest-ever haul of the drug in the European Union — was noteworthy, it serves as merely the latest proof of how Europe has become the epicenter of the global cocaine trade. In mid-February, German polic...
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