Drug Trafficking: Photos of the ways in which Colombian cocaine is sent abroad – Conflict and Drug Trafficking – Justice

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The Anti-Narcotics Police, through the Ports and Airports area, has focused its efforts on stopping the outflow of cocaine, searching from grams that they intend to send in packages to tons hidden in containers.
Precisely, in 32 years of work, Anti-Narcotics has identified several of the main modalities for the shipment of drugs abroad.

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One of the modalities of the so-called ‘narcomimicry’ is to hide drugs inside objects. On a mission to Brazil, the police found a box of sweets in which they had replaced gum with 4,700 grams of cocaine.

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In March of this 2020, in the port of Santa Marta, the Police seized 458 kilos of cocaine in a load of avocados that were going to Antwerp, in Belgium. The drug traffickers had extracted the pit from the avocados and replaced it with a similar object covered in paraffin, loaded with cocaine.

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People with reduced mobility have also been instrumentalized for the shipment of drugs and cases have been seen such as that of a man whose left leg was missing, who was captured when two kilos of cocaine were found in his prosthesis when he tried to board a flight of Bogotá to New York.

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Another of the most used methods is to adhere the narcotics to the torso. The police have even found that drug traffickers also adapt elastic bands so that human couriers appear to be overweight when in reality they are loaded with drugs.

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Another modality that predominates is that of parcels. In April 2019, in the midst of their inspections of the El Dorado cargo holds, police officers came across a package that was going from Cali to Miami. Upon reviewing it, a Bible was found in which there were 1,896 grams of tusibí, also called pink cocaine.

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In September 2013, the police captured a 28-year-old Canadian woman who was transporting two kilos of cocaine at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá. The woman claimed she was 7 months pregnant, but upon checking her, the police discovered an elaborate belly made of latex in which she hid the drug.

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In the “creativity without limits” of the drug traffickers there are also chemical processes that mix cocaine with veterinary products and all kinds of elements that are sold as powders, but that actually hide the drug that is produced in the country. In June 2020, the Police found a shipment of coca in the port of Buenaventura that was going to Turkey, the drug was mixed with rubber granules.