Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
What's a pound of coke worth? At ten grand a pound, 6,000 pounds is sixty million bucks.
It doesn't look like their submarines go all the way underwater. They must work well, regardless.
From what I read about the coca plant, even though it can be grown anywhere, it will only produce the alkaloid that makes cocaine when it is grown in the Andes Mountains. There is something about the climate that is very specifically required. No one has ever figured out how to duplicate the conditions enough to make coke anywhere else. That's why the South Americans have no competition.
But at some point, someone is going to make GMO coca that will produce the right alkaloid even when grown outside the Andes. Monsanto could probably do it right now. Eventually, that technology will filter down to the underground world, just like how the cartels now have submarines.
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world...d-off-galapagos-islands/ar-BBnJM6z?li=AAaeXZz
A narco-sub carrying three tons of cocaine has been captured by the Ecuadorian and Colombian navies. Narco-traffickers have used submarine-like vessels to move drugs to the United States.
The semi-submersible drug boat was captured and three crew members arrested after the vessel encountered mechanical problems 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the Galapagos Islands.
The Colombian navy said in a statement on Friday its boats had been pursuing the makeshift submarine through the Pacific Ocean for four-days with the help of US government surveillance aircraft.
Authorities said the ultimate destination of the cocaine was likely the United States.
Since the early 1990s authorities have captured some 100 handcrafted submarines trafficking cocaine from where it is grown and processed in the Andes to Central America and Mexico on its way to its ultimate destination, the United States.
Peru and Colombia are the world's top producers of cocaine, the production and trafficking of which has fueled deadly violence and corruption throughout Mexico and Central and South America.
It doesn't look like their submarines go all the way underwater. They must work well, regardless.
From what I read about the coca plant, even though it can be grown anywhere, it will only produce the alkaloid that makes cocaine when it is grown in the Andes Mountains. There is something about the climate that is very specifically required. No one has ever figured out how to duplicate the conditions enough to make coke anywhere else. That's why the South Americans have no competition.
But at some point, someone is going to make GMO coca that will produce the right alkaloid even when grown outside the Andes. Monsanto could probably do it right now. Eventually, that technology will filter down to the underground world, just like how the cartels now have submarines.
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world...d-off-galapagos-islands/ar-BBnJM6z?li=AAaeXZz
A narco-sub carrying three tons of cocaine has been captured by the Ecuadorian and Colombian navies. Narco-traffickers have used submarine-like vessels to move drugs to the United States.
The semi-submersible drug boat was captured and three crew members arrested after the vessel encountered mechanical problems 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the Galapagos Islands.
The Colombian navy said in a statement on Friday its boats had been pursuing the makeshift submarine through the Pacific Ocean for four-days with the help of US government surveillance aircraft.
Authorities said the ultimate destination of the cocaine was likely the United States.
Since the early 1990s authorities have captured some 100 handcrafted submarines trafficking cocaine from where it is grown and processed in the Andes to Central America and Mexico on its way to its ultimate destination, the United States.
Peru and Colombia are the world's top producers of cocaine, the production and trafficking of which has fueled deadly violence and corruption throughout Mexico and Central and South America.
