Cocaine to Go... Hold the Mayo: Inside the Fight Against Drug Mules Ralph Avellino and Toby Muse - Vocativ
go to original April 24, 2014

A kilo of pure cocaine, grown and sold inside Colombia, will fetch around $1,500. That same kilo, once it hits the streets of America or Europe, cut up and sold in small amounts, can be worth as much as $120,000. So the incentive to export is strong. The problem for traffickers is getting the cocaine from point A to point B when both point A and B are crawling with trained drug enforcement agents.

As police methods become more sophisticated, traffickers have had to get creative. Cocaine smuggling is always evolving; if they get busted doing one thing on Monday, their methods have changed by Tuesday. Authorities worldwide report that smugglers' transport methods run the gamut: from catapults to submarines to ultra-light aircraft.

But there is one sturdy vessel has stood the test of time, the human.

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