Drug tafficking

Argentina Flipped on Its Radars, Then Found Hundreds of Drug Flights

An Argentine security official claims interdiction efforts against fluvial and land-based trafficking have spurred a sharp rise in drug flights. But improved radar coverage and an overall growth in drug trafficking are more likely to blame for the shift.

Argentina’s Deputy Secretary for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking, Martín Verrier, told La Nación that the rising number of detected illegal flights entering the country this year “is due to the fact that there are increased controls along land and fluvial routes.”

In May 2017, Argentina‘s security ministry announced the detection of 200 suspected drug flights during the first four months of 2017, a threefold increase in comparison to the same period in 2016.