How Cocaine Is Destroying Europe.

Europe is in the middle of a cocaine crisis bigger than anything it has seen before. In 2023, European authorities seized 419 tons of cocaine, the seventh consecutive annual record. The drug is cheaper, purer, and more available than at any point in history. This is not an accident. This is the story of how a global supply chain worth hundreds of billions of dollars was built, who runs it, how it gets into European ports hidden inside banana crates, and what it is doing to the cities, the people, and the institutions that were supposed to stop it.