With intercepts like this, one would think the war drugs wouldn’t be much of a war at all, but instead a brief, but total beat down.
One would think. I figure this (and my numbers are way obsolete by about twenty years) to be about 300M worth of coke. That's a lot of coke, though, by any measure.
But the brutal truth is that, like when I was in, the USCG catches about 2% of the total cocaine traffic. For the producers it is merely a cost of doing business. Who wouldn't love to be in a business where a 300 million dollar loss was an "acceptable cost" of doing business?
The money is too amazingly big. That's the problem, and that's why it will forever be a losing game.