Weekly Report - 01 November 2012 (WR-12-43)

According to an Argentine journalist who spent six years investigating the transport of cocaine by the Italian mafia group Ndranghetta, Rubén Oliva, 95% of the cocaine that leaves Argentina reaches its final destination. The province of Santa Fe, strategically located on national road 11, which begins across the border in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, and sits on the banks of the Paraná River, which flows into the River Plate, is a prime choice to load illicit cargos destined for Europe. Similarly, the lack of radars in the northern Argentine border enables planes of all shapes and sizes to enter the country undetected. Many of these touch down in illegal landing strips near the eponymous provincial capital to make the short trip to the port overland.

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