The trafficking of cocaine in Guinea-Bissau is controlled within mansions in Bissau, where the South American heads of trafficking and their men manage the arrivals and departures of tons of cocaine.

A global network and local consumption, high profits and political risks of explosion, this is the summary on the general impact of the sudden transformation of a small lost country on the platform of re-exportation of South American cocaine to Europe.

The problem is regional, the size of West Africa. Since 2005, “at least 46 tonnes” of cocaine transited in Guinea-Bissau and neighboring countries, says UNODC. The value of cocaine in transit? Almost $ 2 billion per year. Enough to “turn heads” in Guinea, Ghana, Sierra Leone or in neighboring countries.

As the volume of traffic grows, the concern is a promising violent future due to cocaine traffick cocaine in West Africa.

Guinea-Bissau has not yet become narco-state. Cartels do not fight with each other in bloody wars in the sleepy streets of the city center, since their leaders are concerned with more discretion than with suicidal rivalries.

But the local consumption of drugs already is growing fast. The groups involved in trafficking in the region (especially Nigerians, which are often paid in cocaine, shoot or stab without thinking twice. And despite the assistance of UNODC to the judiciary, traffickers live in impunity, since the police is already under political influence of drug traffickers.

Via: Le Monde.