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German, Belgian and Dutch police seized 23 tons of cocaine in late February, the largest haul of the drug in the EU ever.
Those busts are the latest in a quickly escalating series of seizures, and they point to emerging smuggling routes in Latin America.
While the seizure of 23 tons of cocaine by German, Belgian and Dutch police the largest-ever haul of the drug in the European Union was noteworthy, it serves as merely the latest proof of how Europe has become the epicenter of the global cocaine trade.
In mid-February, German police discovered 16 tons of cocaine hidden in containers at the port of Hamburg, while their Belgian counterparts seized 7.2 tons of the drug in Antwerp soon after. Both forces acted after a tip-off from the Netherlands, where both shipments were bound.
Bolivia sets record in 2020 grain production campaign
Bolivia sets record in 2020 grain production campaign
La Paz, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia today registers a record in the production of soy, corn, wheat, sunflower, chia and sorghum with increases of 15 and 18 percent in income compared to those obtained in 2019. Fidel Flores, vice president of the Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (Anapo), revealed the improvement in weather conditions contributed to these results, mainly in the department of Santa Cruz, despite the quarantine due to the Covid-19 pandemic, published the Bolivian Information Agency. The productive sector has made extreme efforts to guarantee the production of food for Bolivians in coordination with national and departmental government authorities so that there would be continuity in productive activity, Flores emphasized.