Europe's cocaine busts are reaching record heights

Some of the more than 16 metric tons of cocaine that German authorities seized in Hamburg in Europe's largest cocaine haul to date, February 24, 2020.
REUTERS/Cathrin Mueller
German, Belgian and Dutch police seized 23 tons of cocaine in late February, the largest haul of the drug in the EU ever.
Those busts are the latest in a quickly escalating series of seizures, and they point to emerging smuggling routes in Latin America.
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