Cocaine is like a truckload of bricks: leaving dust as it passes through. So begins veteran journalist Gustavo Sierra’s special report for one of Argentina’s leading papers, Clarín, on the extensive reach of the drug cartels’ illicit trade.
In La Argentina blanca: cómo penetran por Salta los grandes carteles del narco, Sierra traces the drug trafficking through the Salta forests. Among his several sources: data from Datamyne indicating inbound shipments well in excess of legitimate industry needs of chemicals that are feedstocks for illegal drugs.