How crime in Ecuador is fueled by Europe's cocaine problem | Mapped Out
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
- Cocaine use is at a record high in Europe. The continent’s craving for the drug has created extreme wealth for criminal gangs and cartels. But there are also devastating consequences. Violence, homicides, corruption. In Latin America, Ecuador has become a hotspot. The whole region has been dragged knee-deep into the dirty drug game. And Europe itself is now experiencing the dark side of the illegal drug trade.
00:00 Introduction
01:06 Cocaine in Europe - the demand
05:27 Cocaine in Latin America - the supply
08:38 The logistics of the trade - “Narcobananas”
13:24 What can Europe do about its cocaine market?
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It's almost like south american cartels are PUSHING europeans to consume it 😂. Almost like we don't know DEMAND generates the high offer.
I’ve once been in this “underworld” before and i had not heard or experienced dealers convincing the users to use their products. They know darn well they’ll keep coming back for more
Way easier to smuggle drugs into europen than ameirca, and the jail time is waaaaay lower.
So ofc they gonna push drugs into europe.
I live in Uruguay and my country inspects a higher % of container ships than Rotterdam. We have to do more, but Europeans have way more resources and are really slacking.
Europe is where the money and wealthy buyers are. Europe has to step up and work closer with South American governments.
No. Europe has to legalise cocaine and other drugs. And many political parties here in the netherlands are in favor. Give it 10 more years and it is legal like in Portugal and the problems are gone.
@drunkensailor112 Exactly, tax it regulate it. So, you take power away from the traffickers.
@@drunkensailor112Well, it has to do something, because this money is fueling gangs the size of armies that actual armies have been unable to take on and that make South American countries more dangerous than actual war zones.
You are asking drug dealer to help you out from the drug problem.
@@drunkensailor112 in Portugal it's decriminalised not legal, two very different things, but I agree with your point
You say it’s political unacceptable, once upon a time weed was illegal in the us, before that alcohol.
If anything psychedelics like shrooms or LSD might become legal but definitely not cocaine. Legalisation usually starts with medical use and cocaine doesnt have any. All it does is give people a stroke or heart attack when theyre 40 - 50 years old
@@madarah8533stimulants have some use cases. I wouldn’t say it has none.
weed feeling is = to a mothers LOVe feeling (or a love of a spouse) ..... Does that matter?.....
@@madarah8533 do you know the history of cocaine in the 20th century? And why did we legalise alcohol if there is no medical application? You know that most countries have legalised all drugs for medical applications, it's just the recreational versions that are illegal. For instance, in the case of cannabinoides, the recreational side is related to THC, the medical is related to CBD, and the legalisation of sell and consumption of products with high THC concentration has no relation to its medical usage...
@@madarah8533 it's about harm reduction. I don't take cocaine and it's ruining everything yet it's easier to buy on a Sunday than aspirin and people like to take it. Only legalization or regulation can get rid of the violence and make sure nobody dies from fentanyl
The best war against drugs is: Educate, legalize, produce, tax it, sell it = No money for drug lords = no crimes
OR: Try to eliminate it, fight against it, make drug lords billions while you spend billions without any success!
Any UNODC worker in private would tell you the same.
Exactly that
One thing though, who do you think is gonna produce and sell it after it’s legal? The same drug lords who already did it, only thing now is they don’t have to hide it
check any liberal city where it is somehow legalized. chaos chaos is the order of the day
Legalization doesn't work unless the price is low enough. Cartels just undercut the pricing. which is why cartels still sell weed in the U.S.
@@rodrigofaria4498 legal authorities could synthesize it, or even grow it in Europe for example
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I love how they breakdown the prices and show people where the suppliers and demand is. It is like a business class, but more valuable...some friend of mine typed this.
Damn what happened to all those “Kids don’t do drugs” commercials 🤣🤣
Exactly. I would say that education is the key!!! But that has been left behind and totally defunded.
More mushrooms 🍄, less coke
They need to be un-illegalized together with all the other substances.
People just really like doing drugs.
SOME people
Its a great medication we don't get too take advantage of because we glorify criminals and lack the education in specific fields like medicine and chemistry so no one knows what they are talking about, just the TV show or movie they like about the subject.
@@Suitswonderlandcocaine is a poison, not a medication.
@@privateuser2283 And there is nothing wrong with the occasional bump of cocaine, trip on magic mushrooms, or night out with friends
Congrats to the Drugs for winning the War on Drugs!
In America, we consume the most though. Please do a video on how US demand has driven record supply and production the last two years in a row
I´m from Uruguay and the US is telling our government and the rest that they keep working with us with intelligence but opiods are their priority and the budget is going towards those drugs.
They are also helping us in terms of detecting fentanyl and all of that.
The word is that there are around 200 US foreing affairs personnel working on the ground and keeping constant communication with each South American government (venezuela maybe not).
Right now Europe has to step up, and work closer with us we don´t have even 5 agents, UK has 1 agent for all of Latin America
Antwerp has seized over 116 tonnes of cocaine last year, and they estimate that this is only 10% of everything that goes through, meaning more than 1000 tonnes of cocaine goes through this one city, which is literally half of the entire world's cocaine supply.
13:45: "Authorities are trying to get ahead of criminals." Yup, kinda like they've been trying to do for the last 50 years or so.
In this report you are worried about cocaine, but you were so excited to report the news of cannabis legalization. Legalize cocaine too.
Legalize neither - nor...
Sane voices barely heard
If you pay 30K a Kilo in europe you are getting ripped off.
Depends where in Europe..
Living in Berlin and drinking only beer on week ends i achieved something in my life LOL !!!
I live in Berlin too and I don't even drink alcohol :P
Became? So europeans wasn't doing opium in China during the 1800s 😂😂😂
They are Washing hand from their every crime of past now,but doing new crimes at the same time in 3rd world.
UK citizen Akmal smuggled 4030g of heroin into China and received a death sentence. UK government tried to save him but didn't succeed.
yes, in exchange for green tea lol
China is getting its its revenge for the opium wars, by pushing fentanyl and its big brother nitrazine into the "west". If one were suspicious, one might think that maybe they are trying to do what the british did to them for maybe the same reasons. World war III may well be just around the corner.
Drug use is a substitute for feeling happy and well-adjusted in a normal good Society
"good society" doesnt exit. that's why some people look for happiness in other ways.
That's a snotty high-handed attitude to have... Back to the loch with you, Nessie!
Everyone uses drugs. WTF do you think coffee is? A caffeine delivery system for addicts... WTF do you think breakfast cereals are but a sugar delivery system for addicts... Fruit juice... candy bars, etc... Much less we talk about tobacco, cannabis, ego-tripping social media comments by nitwits... Case in point...
Nobody talks about the billions upon billions that requires laundering it also requires government assistance to get it done
Doing drugs might feel like using your "freedom". But you give away your freedom, or at the very least, are risking it.
And in the process you're fueling conflicts and violence in countries in the global south. Drugs are worse than any biblical plague.
At the worst taking it from someone else. Ban drunk driving completely by losing your US citizenship if caught.
How Europe did?
Well, you see, when a nose loves a powder very much...
9 months later an addiction pops out!
9 months is way too long 😂 it’s 2nd try , because 1st try gives you a chance to not doing this again.
pop pop pop .....
didnt germany just approve cannibas........its not the spanishes fault smh
@@dannymoko2415 cannabis is not Heroin...
@@dannymoko2415 cannabis=cocaine!!! true!
The overlaid music makes it hard to understand the narrator... Not sure why it is there... Stopped at 2:11
Ok
just turn on closed captions, its a must on youtube
The fact that cannabis is illegal everywhere in Europe besides Germany and Malta is sickening while alcohol, tobacco and increasingly large flood of cocaine, opioid and/or benzo's wash over the continent is both deeply hypocritical but counter production. Cannabis is like eating an apple compared to what else people seem to be wanting to hoover into the so-called "clean temples" these days...
you don't get Paranoia from eating apples,
@@harryhole5786 but when you drink you do and more
@@alialdoukhi2014 but when you drink too much you have a hangover.... From Cannabis not..😂
@@harryhole5786 You get aggressive with alcohol and it's legal
Cannabis and everything else.. Coke and even meth should be legal, produced and sold under everyone's scrutiny.
Dont do drugs ...that is it
Exactly. If there is no consumers, then there is no traffic and the problem is gone. Simple as that, drug use should be discouraged. (I am not talking about caffeine, sugar and medication, for those who name them as a counterexample).
Great job!
I live in Nova Scotia in a small town. When I was growing up, you never saw cocaine now it’s everywhere four or five dealers, and one mile little town 3000 people.
Thanks for posting. Yes 'nose candy' was very big in the 80's in the city of London with the "loads of money" city banker yuppies
Being from the US, all I can say the WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED. More bust, well, watch out ports in countries like Albania which have developed alliances with NARCS in South America.
The main result of this "war" have been creation of criminal organisations of a scale unimaginable before.
So, cartels might call "the war on drugs" a gift of gods.
So let's allow teens to enjoy it? Legalize it? Then heroin? Maybe fentanyl?
For those arguing with that legalization would clean all this up, look up how Oregon fared with their legalization experiment, and how they re-criminalized drugs after about one year.
THEN go ask Portugal who did it first and where it's STILL legal. CHERRYPICKING ONE-OFF'S is a terrible way to lose arguments and look foolish in the process. Case in point. You're welcome for the free tip, slick. You clearly bloody need it!
It’s more fentanyl and meth in Oregon. The coke heads are not living in tents. Coke is expensive and you have to stop at some point it stops working 😉
@@stickynorthSo you can buy cocaine legally in a shop in Portugal can you?
Decrim failed in Oregon failed because it wasn't properly implemented in the first place. Little to no money was provided for treatment on demand and other services.
>For those arguing with that legalization would clean all this up
Did DVD movies/software shops made piracy wanished? 😆
Let's blame the Dutch
She summarized it perfectly it's all about supply and demand. Whenever one big deal is busted another just takes their place.
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾
The demand is bullish, but the supply is bearish. The east sunrises, the west sunsets.
Why would it be politically unacceptable to discuss cocaine legalisation and the usage of that tax money for anti-addiction problems? It's not like the addiction issues are not there - claiming it a politically unacceptable issue is just dumb...
Lol like someone would vote for a politician trying to legalize coke
@@beatlesleo what would be the problem with that? People vote for politicians who include in their program the legalisation of other drugs, based on clear arguments related to crime and public health control. We have a problem in Europe, and the war on drugs is not a solution. So I don't see why a well argued proposal for the legalisation of cocaine would raise protests on the public opinion...
@@mmarques2736 what tax money are europeans going to get from legalizing cocaine? You dont have any control over the supply or means of production for cocaine because it is made in South America and the cartels there would rather sneak it into the country to be sold on the street and make more money they are not going to follow your rules or pay your silly taxes.
@@GnarshredProductions afraid so but ...drugs, prossies & crims ...? could do without that ...surely?
Cocaine , weed , ecstasy , amphetamine , alcohol , stupificants , intoxicants and hallucinogens ...really ?
.How about "God is Nature and Life is Sweet" ....been proven to me...i hang these word above the mantlepiece
It will happen at one point in this century
How Europe got addicted to Coke…they partied in NYC, LA and Miami in the eighties
We've been doing coke since the dutch sold it during WW1, to soldies none the less :D
@@jeroenwubbels7824and opium was widely used
Don't put all the blame on the politicians.
The media has been shoving it in our faces, or noses, for decades.
????
it’s the politicians that think criminalization is the solution are the ones making the problem worse lol
i guess people revving up outside courthouses in alabama need to collect their drug debts overseas
Great doc but bad mixing/mastering and poor audio quality 😅
A simple answer: Trap trap trap…- Rick Ross Economics: supply exists because of demand and vice versa.
Waste of time and money, the heart is so precious people don't know what they are doing to their bodies.
In Istanbul in 1 gram of coke is $100-$130 USD
That’s crazy, I’m not sure what it is here in america but I’m sure it’s lower.
That being said, if it was legalized, cartels wouldn’t have power
80*
When are we going to understand that the war on drugs does not work. The only way forward is legalization .
Wrong. Illegality makes pushing substances profitable. The laws are the issue, not the drugs.
Hard drugs should never legal only discriminalized with enforced widraw program
I think the drugs ARE the problem. Otherwise we would not even be having this discussion...
@@santostv. like alcohol?
True that. Coco is safe and recreational fun drug anyways
It's not the drugs it's the people
Nowadays any product sold in the market is researched exhaustively from the demand aspect, with APPs, surveys, data analysis, etc. But here you have one of the most consumed product in the planet with absolutely no research carried out on its consumers. So how do you expect to stop this trade with no understanding at all on what is driving demand?
But the more successful law enforcement agencies are, the more rewarding they make a drug trade career become. I can't really see the risk increasing all that much from what it is now, so that's why the reward will stay constant or increase.
Equator entire economy uses the US dollar.
A real problem.
they use rolex and luxury watches watches as payments insread of cash..
What are used for?
NZ / Australia it is about $105-$110000 USD a kilo and $210 USD per gram.
The logistics to get it there drive up the price
How would it be 100k a kilo but 210 a gram - you know a kilo is 1000 grams right?
@@Paolo040 Economies of scale
wtf $210 for one
Gram. That’s CRAZY. like $40 here for a full gram
116 tons is freaking crazy wtf
16 tons?! That requires a song!
Drugs won the war on drugs.
There was no war on drugs, on the contrary. There has been a push on drugs and a war on competition.
I love the way this European documentary skips over the part in between indigenous use of coca leaves in South America and the growth of the cocaine trade. Cocaine is a European drug. It was first isolated in 1855 in Germany by a German chemist. People in South America had been chewing coca leaves for over a thousand years with no health or social problems, but back then Europeans felt they had the right to meddle with any other part of the world, with predictable results. That's why we have a cocaine crisis.
Most overrated Drug. It’s weird that there is so much demand for it.
it used to be measured in kilo now it's measured in ton
huge production = cheaper preices ?
Nop. Because illegality.
If all else being equal yes. But if the demands gets bigger than the supply it'll get more expensive regardless.
They say the route starts in Colombia and Mexico and makes its first stop in the Atlantic coast of the US, from there it travels to Germany Belgium etc. There is got to be a partnership of some type.
can the Coca leaf plant be grown and harvested in greenhouses outside of the tropics?
Nope.
Otherwise Holland would have been doing it.
it cheaper and more profitable to smuggle, otherwise dutch would've been hydroponic coca capital of the world...
This is a stratified issue spanning social, psychological, biological, and ecological areas. Fighting substance issues must include a provision for education with sincere effort from each community and tools for the individual.
Well said
05:03 Hmm, I don't know. With his gold chain, expensive haircut, light tan, and designer clothes, M. Laniel looks like he just got back from a weekend on some drug lord's yacht. 🤣
In finland it was $50k a few years ago
It's simple. They tasted, they loved it, they become addicted... 😂
Legalise cannabis in Europe, alkohol and cannabis✌🏻
Coke is rotting us up from the inside and out
We love to be high
I'm 73 years old and never had any cravings to try any type of drugs/cannabis. Perhaps I was fortunate enough to have had parents who kept me on the straight and narrow. I honestly believe that a focussed and consistent education programme needs to be adopted over all our media channels and at schools to expose the real truths of drug usage.
You've never had cravings or you've never tried drugs? Which is it because there's a difference?
Poverty kept me drug and alcohol free. Only people who can afford can enjoy intoxicating substances.
u can stop drinking and smoking and goin out with wild women but even then you might not live a long life but it will certainly feel like it (auld irish saying)
This video is a total bs, they said why cocaine started to enter EU now, it has always been like this, get ur facts.
Lets all pretend USA govt didnt industrialize drug trades and South American isnt only a bi product of USA's actions
you make it sound like south americans have no agency of their own. that's very racist of you. other people aren't drones of the USA, they make their own decisions.
European politicians & high end businessmen are the biggest customers in this whole thing
I wonder how much a kilo would go for in North Korea?
My dad funded cocaine trafficking in the mid 1970s to 1990 when he died. I was part of the cocaine explosion in America.
It’s a helluva drug 👃
the irony is that half the people that produced this piece have probably done coke
MAKE THEM LEGAL AND A PRODUCT
I will just say this, all the blood in the hands of the ones who consume drugs, do not blame anyone else.
No wonder Germany legalised weed.
Rush rush to the yayo!
Alcohol is much more devastating to the user and the people(children) around them
13:34 seems like a cop out...'it's politically unfeasible', so let's not even talk about a solution?
I would like more information on legalising drugs and then voters can make an informed decision and maybe vote in a popular candidate.
5:00 come on mate! we both know you have a coke nose 😁
I know I can’t tell if he is a past user and maybe reformed or just like super zealot for god.
Legalize it
Ok so Europe has increased consumption going back more than a decade. This is all the fault of bananas and international shipping. Deep think tank analysis here.
Unfortunately this is a very shallow dive into why European consumption continues to grow.
Antwerp # 1!
as anyone who has used cocaine can attest to , the stuff is cut , expensive and not effective if you take " just more " ...but that "wasted feeling" on monday morning ... no thank you... drugs , prostitution & crims...not my style either
Legalising is politically unacceptable, so there is not much point talking about it. Yes there is?! Like "If this solves the problem, then why is it still politically unacceptable?"
Where are the bribes suppose to come from if you make everything leagal??
Crooked cops agree, do not legalize Drugs
The amount of money and resources we keep wasting by trying to keep consenting adults from consuming something they want to consume is wild.
Legalize coca tea and people will choose the safer option.
More marijuana, less cocaine!
Europe is finally realizing most of it's cocaine is extremely cut and poor quality once it gets on the streets. The amount of supply in South America does not dictate higher prices for the end users, especially along such a well-established trade route.
Cocaine in Antwerp is +90% pure.
It's a stupidity to consum drugs😑
The Life it's nice without this Sheets too 👍😉
No Demand=Lower Offert
Coloquem isso no DW Brasil
Por favor?
Oh globalization... What joy you bring to the western world
Politicians shouldn't have the right to criminalize anything a person may want to use for enjoyment. Government has gotten too big for its britches
Send the troops in i say.
sending troops in Afgan had busted up Afgan's opium production. 🤑
It's baffling how many people are "bright" enough in their neck tumors to use this stuff...
Now the surprise on my cousin's face a few years back is no longer as surprising to me as it was back then... He was surprised that I was really not using any drugs or knew anything about them (names, how they look like etc.) which I thought was a weird thing to be surprised about.
From such reports I get the feeling that I'm really the odd one out (with even teasing people that they are drug users because they drink coffee).
Id be more concerned with girls looking for foreign husbands. Im seeing more and more similar videos.
Bruh
Btw,what about that Europe whuch fought wars with China when it resisted European drugs?
Unconditional right to stop our own life whenever we want medically. My body my choice. Freedom
Europe discovers the war on drugs
How about France?
01:53 Oh no, it's even in their ureen? 🤣Come on, DW, like you can't afford native speakers.