Tag cocaine

Africa’s “first narco-state”

Guinea-Bissau, a failed state, has no prisons and few police, it’s now being used as a major transport hub to move cocaine from South America to Europe and Asian heroin to the US. ‘Coke fashionistas’ are ruining Africa – UN…

Venuezuela, the Farc, and cocaine

The Guardian reports on collusion between Colombia’s Farc and the Venezuela military, saying Venezuela is being used as the primary shipping point of Columbian cocaine out of South America. Given the amounts of money involved, it would seem naive or…