Denmark Vesey: The Game Is The Same - From The West Coast To The East Coast To The Gold Coast

Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Game Is The Same - From The West Coast To The East Coast To The Gold Coast

Drug dealers settle a score in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. In the past few years, the small West African nation has become a key transit point for South American drug cartels.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: yep. that could easily be a scene from the wire.
tgn; Dec 10, 2009, 3:52:00 PM
KonWomyn said...: It's like the TransAtlantic movement in reverse. The drugs are shipped from South America to West Africa where drug mules carry them to Europe on commercial flights. It's become big business here was a case earlier this year of two UK schoolgirls having gone to Ghana for the holidays and on their return to the UK they were caught with 14lb of cocaine. They pleaded innocent, but they're in jail awaiting trial.

Another drug port that's opened up is through South Africa en route to Asia. There's been a steady increase year upon year, but it's much higher in West Africa. And because the drug barons can pay officials to turn a blind eye and also make substantial investments in a country like Sierra, it's going to be very hard to stop them.; Dec 10, 2009, 5:18:00 PM

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