“World cocaine supply at record levels”warned the UN at the presentation of the World Cocaine Report 2023 last week. Coca cultivation increased 35% between 2020 and 2021, a record number and the highest annual increase since 2016, and the United Nations Director-General for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Ghada Waly, has called for “maximum warning”.
Two days before this distress message, the narco-submarine “El Poseidón” arrived but arrived at the port of Xufre in A Illa, guarded by security forces. empty and no crew to stop. The drug smugglers had fulfilled their duties, the drugs were continuing their journey by land. can be a cargo 5,000 kilos. They may be preparing the next shipment. All they have to do is mourn the loss of their means of transport, but they will have plenty of money to build another. Moreover, we have news about the narco-sub because a sailor saw it after it was abandoned. And how many more narco-submarines escaped the surveillance of the State Security forces? Many experts agree.
“When it first appeared in Galicia, ‘El Poseidón’ was the third, they have already said it will be neither the first nor the last, and the detection of the latter shows that this type of transport is not causal or anecdotal,” explains Fernando Alonso, director of the Galician Foundation Against Drugs.
“We are at a critical moment, there is an avalanche of drugs, especially cocaine and prices have fallen and Spain and Galicia have always been the gateway to cocaine and The government must decide whether the fight against drug trafficking is a real priority and is acting decisively.”, exposing Fernando Alonso. This demands more human and material resources for the war.
Alonso, as well as David Martínez, the legal service coordinator of the Érguete association, once again regret the fact that the transcendent reality outside of Galicia is the community’s gateway for drugs. Although drug traffickers’ “social rejection” is highest in autonomy.
Our impression of Érguete, Drug trafficking networks reactivate in Galicia”, explains David Martinez. “There’s more cocaine and it’s cheaper And every year more and more people come to our center to try their detox and they are getting younger and younger.”
Although there is evidence of the passage of only three narco-submarines in Galicia and the seizure of drugs in only one case (3,000 kilos of cocaine), experts agree with certainty. many more unloaded their goods off the coast of Galicia because, among other things, narco-submarines are known to be a common shipping method used by Colombian and Mexican drug lords to ship their drugs to Europe and the United States. They are produced in secret workshops in the jungle and then depart from hidden ports in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador on the Pacific coast.
Spotted by a sailor, the week the submarine was towed in Galicia, the Colombian navy found another sub with more than two tons of cocaine in Pacific waters. On the deck of the submarine were two men who were injured by toxic gases leaking from the submarine’s engine. Colombian drug agents believe the shipment went to Central America. Once there, he would take a step to try to enter the US.
Last January, the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Ecuadorian National Police found another narco-submarine off the northern coast of Esmeraldas province, on the Colombian border.
In Galicia, narco-submarines seem like a novelty to us, but the use of narco-submarines in Colombia is not new. It began to be used in the late 90s.