Items tagged with drug trade and cocaine
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| Legalising cocaine would stem drug violence, Belgian criminologist suggests [21.01.2023] | After an 11-year-old girl died recently due to a shooting incident in Merksem, politicians have stressed that tackling narco-terror is a top priority ... |
| Record 100 tonnes of cocaine seized in Port of Antwerp last year [10.01.2023] | Last year, Belgian customs intercepted just under 110 tonnes of cocaine in the Port of Antwerp, a new record, as it marks the first time the 100-tonn ... |
| Over a quarter of cocaine seized in Latin American ports destined for Antwerp [22.10.2022] | This year, an estimated 200 tonnes of cocaine destined for overseas have already been seized in Latin American Ports, 65 tonnes of which were destine ... |
| Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed [08.08.2022] | Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feud ... |
| How the Netherlands became a global cocaine hub [23.03.2022] | While the scale of the discovery was shocking, the fact of it was not. The number of cocaine seizures in Europe has been rising steadily, quadrupling ... |
| Rotterdam port cocaine seizures hit new high, total street value over €5bn [10.01.2022] | Customs officials based at Rotterdam port seized cocaine with a street value of over €5bn last year, or a total of over 70 tonnes of the class A drug ... |
| The ‘cocaine collectors’ retrieving smuggled drugs in Rotterdam [26.11.2021] | As the volume of cocaine trafficked into the Netherlands through the port city of Rotterdam increases, so too does the number of young men employed b ... |
| Graft, drug trafficking threaten Albania's chances of joining EU [04.10.2021] | Researcher Fatjona Mejdini states that the drug problem had its roots in 1991, when Albania went from an isolated communist dictatorship straight to ... |
| Antwerp and Rotterdam are new epicentre of European cocaine trade [09.09.2021] | The increased use of shipping containers to conceal drugs has made the high volume ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg the new epicentre of the E ... |
| ‘Movie-plot’ cocaine case highlights shipping industry drug problem [28.06.2021] | On June 17, 2019, US law enforcement agents boarded a shipping vessel in Philadelphia and seized 19.75 tons of cocaine with a street value of over $1 ... |
| Amount of cocaine intercepted by Dutch customs doubled in first half of 2020 [16.07.2020] | Customs officers seized twice as much cocaine in the first six months of 2020 than in the same period last year. More than 25,000 kilograms of the dr ... |
| Coca leaf: Myths and Reality [16.06.2020] | Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's D ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| What lockdown? World’s cocaine traffickers sniff at movement restrictions [20.05.2020] | The world’s cocaine industry — which produces close to 2,000 metric tons a year and makes tens of billions of dollars — has adapted better than many ... |
| Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade [22.04.2020] | The coronavirus outbreak has upended industries across the globe. The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands alo ... |
| Honduras goes from transit nation to cocaine producer [19.03.2020] | Over the last decade, Honduras has seen a proliferation of laboratories capable of transforming coca leaf into cocaine hydrochloride. This means that ... |
| Belgium’s most powerful politician has a drugs problem [11.01.2020] | Drug gangs increasingly choose Antwerp over the port of Rotterdam since checks there have become tougher. Almost one-third of all cocaine intercepted ... |
| ‘War on drugs’ is driving deforestation [21.11.2019] | Drug trafficking and the corresponding ‘war on drugs’ are driving deforestation in Central America, two new reports published by Fundación Neotropica ... |
| 'It was like ordering pizza': Cocaine taxis on the rise in Berlin [21.10.2019] | Police are investigating a growing number of "cocaine taxis" – cars that deliver the drug to any location – in the German capital. According to local ... |
| Cannabis: le Maroc peut-il surfer sur la vague verte? [24.09.2019] | Le pétrole vert du Maroc fait saliver les nouvelles industries émergentes qui promettent des produits miracles à base de cannabis. Malgré les perspec ... |
| War on drugs has helped cocaine traffickers conquer swathes of Central America, study suggests [01.04.2019] | A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, which simulated the complex dynamics between drug traffickers ... |
| New gangs 'Uberise' Europe's cocaine supply and bring more violence [14.12.2018] | A surge in the supply of pure cocaine to Europe has led to a rise in drug-related murders as new criminal gangs muscle into a market previously domin ... |
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