![]() ![]() The predominant trend noted by the latest Drug Trafficking Report from the Intelligence Center against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) is a spectacular increase in marijuana crops, both indoor and outdoor. ![]() ![]() “The only thing we can do is prevent this system from replacing and competing with the state itself, as happens in some countries, such as Mexico.” “We can dismantle stronger or weaker groups, but others will come behind and they will also try to impose themselves and fill the vacuum, as can be seen with the violent clashes between rival organizations on the Costa del Sol,” says a senior police chief of UDYCO, the National Police’s Drugs and Organized Crime Unit. “It has perfect, fluid distribution channels, mainly road transportation, with trucks carrying all kinds of fruit and vegetables across Europe.” A drug haul in Pinos Puente, Granada. “The system is as follows: due to its geographical position, Spain is a receiver – hashish from Morocco and cocaine from Latin America – and it’s also a big marijuana producer,” says a Civil Guard police chief involved in the fight against organized crime. According to narcotics prosecutor José Ramón Noreña, who has spent 14 years dealing with drug crime, “this is an area that has no boundaries and is only going to grow, not just in Spain but across the world, and the solution, if there is one, is complex.”ĭrug crime is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed. Arrests for drug trafficking in Spain increased by 12.3% in 2019Īs the data suggests, the system of producing, receiving and distributing the drugs is like a well-oiled machine. The narco has ditched his iconic underworld status and the monikers that go with it, and embraced anonymity in a bid to keep trade on track. This is due in part to the broad-based criminal activities of the Eastern European mafias and the marijuana mega-boom. While recently released 2020 data lists the seizure in 2019 of a staggering 1.5 million marijuana plants, almost 38 tons of cocaine and nearly 350 tons of hashish along with 20,437 arrests*, drug traffickers are becoming masters at adapting to new circumstances, including those of the pandemic. Drug trafficking in Spain is evolving rapidly. ![]()
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