Inside the cocaine boom fuelling Europes most lucrative drug market
Cocaine has never been more abundant, more profitable, or more widely consumed. Record production in South America is fuelling a surge in shipments to Europe, now the most lucrative market for the drug. RFI maps the new power structures driving the boom not the cartels of legend, but a web of armed groups and brokers managing the trade.Gone are the days when cartels operated as rigid pyramids under a single boss
Cocaine has never been more abundant, more profitable, or more widely consumed. Record production in South America is fuelling a surge in shipments to Europe, now the most lucrative market for the drug. RFI maps the new power structures driving the boom not the cartels of legend, but a web of armed groups and brokers managing the trade.
Gone are the days when cartels operated as rigid pyramids under a single boss
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