On 28 July, Insight Crime reported that Mexico’s largest criminal groups are outsourcing the retrieval of cocaine shipments to smaller groups posing as fishing cooperatives. The cartels are contracting local gangs, which then set up fake fishing cooperatives which register ships and use them to travel up to 350 nautical miles out to sea to receive drugs coming from Colombia and Ecuador.
https://insightcrime.org/news/fishing-cooperatives-drug-shipments-mexico/
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