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Drug traffickers are switching up their tactics to import record amounts of cocaine into Europe. Instead of smuggling the drug in massive shipping containers at major ports, they’re increasingly relying on swarms of high-speed boats known locally as narcolanchas.
WSJ explains how drug traffickers can spend weeks at sea aboard the superfast vessels and how Spanish customs agents are struggling to hunt them down.
Chapters:
0:00 At sea with Spanish customs agents
0:28 Cocaine’s boom in Europe
1:03 How they get the drugs into Europe
1:59 Inspecting one of the speed boats
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