• @FireTower
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    1 year ago

    For the lazy: It was Dutch customs who found €600 mil or $660 mil worth of coke among a shipment of bananas from Ecuador.

    • @rjc
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      121 year ago

      TIL 8ton of coke is only worth $660

    • @Trippin
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      121 year ago

      At least quote it correctly. It’s €600 million or $660 million

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    61 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Dutch authorities have seized around 8,000 kilograms (8 tons) of cocaine in Rotterdam, prosecutors announced on Thursday.

    “On July 13, customs carried out the largest ever drug seizure in the port of Rotterdam,” prosecutors said.

    “Once again we have succeeded… in dealing a serious blow to the port’s drug traffickers,” Rotterdam Customs Director Peter van Buijtenen said.

    Dutch customs said that such large loads of cocaine are becoming rarer, with most recent hauls being substantially smaller than that reported on Thursday.

    The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain are the top three European countries for illegal cocaine imports.

    Thursday’s announcement comes a day after Fernando Villavicencio, a leading presidential candidate in Ecuador, was shot dead at a campaign rally.


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  • t0m5k1
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    21 year ago

    All of a sudden I have an itchy nose!

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Cocaine production is at an all time high and pricea are on the floor. Meanwhile drug cartels continue to murder and torture at will. 2 days ago a candidate for president in Ecuador was assassinated by members of a cartel. So tell me again how we are winning the war on drugs.

    • @CheeseNoodle
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      91 year ago

      I mean I can also say the same about people who buy certain brands of bannana, hell there’s an ice-cream brand owned by literal neo-nazis at my local convenience store.

    • @n00b001
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      51 year ago

      Government mandated prohibition:

      • funding crime wars
      • killings
      • shootings
      • and much more suffering
    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      That would be the case for basically anything on the black market and pretty much ever drug.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Not true. The rise in popularity specifically for cocaine in The Netherlands has brought a big influx of murder, explosions and other intimidation.