The Highway to Europe - Inside a Global Drug Collaboration – NarcoFiles; The new criminal order
The Highway to Europe - Inside a Global Drug Collaboration – NarcoFiles; The new criminal order
Think of the drug trade, and you might think of rigid hierarchies run by drug lords like Pablo Escobar or Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Today, the reality is far more complex.
With global cocaine demand surging, and markets growing fast in Asia, Africa, and Europe, the days when a single cartel could dominate a whole supply chain are gone.
It is now far more likely for networks of gangs to link up, often on a sort of freelance basis, to move cocaine along different legs of the journey.
To see how this works in practice, OCCRP and its partners looked into how a group of gangs and criminals worked together to feed one of the world’s busiest drug highways: Latin America to Europe. (OCCRP - Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, November 2023)
https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order/en/