The Telegraph, UK
Special Report: West Africa welcomes Latin America's drug barons
Dec 4 -- Dozens of Latin American drug barons have left their homelands and relocated to new havens in West Africa, where a string of countries along the Atlantic coast have become hubs for trafficking cocaine to Europe.
4 de diciembre de 2008
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A major change in the organisation and planning of global cocaine smuggling is under way. Once, the masterminds lived in South America and sent their narcotics to the United States and Europe, usually via the Caribbean.
More recently, at least a quarter of the cocaine bound for Europe – and perhaps as much as two thirds – has passed through West African countries, notably Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Ghana.
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