Special envoy to Guayaquil
The port of Contecon appears more and more like a mechanized fortress, devoid of personnel in order to limit the risks of contamination of cargoes by cocaine.
Impossible to set foot there, even if these precautions have no real effect.
At the end of January, one of the last police operations led to the seizure of nearly half a ton of cocaine in various containers of shrimp, heading for Europe.
In another burlap bag filled with chickpeas, this time bound for Israel, 350 blocks of cocaine looked like bricks.
These discoveries occur almost weekly in the Guayaquil estuary, which brings together 28 ports, the real economic heart of the country.
80% of exports come from here, and 364 tonnes of cocaine per year according to estimates.
Most of the time, it is on shipments of bananas, the country's emblematic fruit, that the police focus.
A commodity prized by drug traffickers due to…
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